Dog Dayz
By Braden Dohrmann
Hello everyone, welcome back to another edition of Dog Dayz.
This last month the school year came to an end, and summer began. Of course I am still busy with sports, but no homework to worry about is nice. Summer sports for me have included baseball, basketball and football. I am also working out to get stronger this summer to get ready for my sophomore year.
I am now officially a sophomore. Last month, I said I ran for class sargent of arms and I am very excited to say I won, and I am looking forward to all the fun things we will do for the class of 2020 next year.
Before school let out, I made sure all of my grades were looking good and ended up receiving a 4.0 GPA. I hope to continue the trend of 4.0s, but I realize it is only going to get tougher. We also got new lockers for next year. I got a top locker which is always the goal, but I am not near as many friends as I had hoped.
Right after school got out our football team headed for Central Washington University for football camp. It was a four-day camp, and we played two games each day. I played on the JV team and we lost one time throughout the camp. I thought we were very successful and definitely got better. Varsity had a great camp as well, also only losing once to a 4-A school. They even beat a Central Washington prospects team. Overall, Montesano had a great camp.
For 2-A Legion baseball we have won every game except one against Lower Columbia in league play. Two days after I got back from football camp in eastern Washington, I went back to eastern Washington to Selah for a four-day baseball tournament. We had a great time and it was hoot.
With all of these sports, I did have to make some tough decisions. One being whether to stay for five to six baseball games or go to Seaside basketball camp. For many reasons I ended up cutting my basketball season short and stayed. I was really hoping to go to Seaside, but I couldn’t make it work with my baseball schedule. Hopefully the schedule will work better next year.
This summer I finally turned 15 years old and have since gotten my driver’s permit. At the beginning of July, I start driver’s education, so getting my permit has been nice, because I have gotten some fairly good practice in. Before I go to driver’s ed I am hoping to get some experience with driving on the highway, and I need to get a heck of a lot better at parking. All things I will do and get better at when I go to driver’s ed, I know. However, I want to have some experience, and don’t want to be too far behind everyone else taking my course. Overall, I am super excited to get better on the roads so I am ready for my 16th birthday.
With these next two months of summer I have time to work on, improve upon and grow with many things without the worries and stresses of school work getting in the way.
I want and need to get stronger this summer. By lifting weights four or five times a week, I know I will. That will also help me with all of my sports.
I also want to hang out with my friends as much as possible. I know I won’t see them every day like I do at school, but hopefully still a lot.
I need to gain weight this summer, too. I have been burning a lot of calories so far this summer and not taking enough in. Eating more, sleeping more and hopefully growing will help me gain weight.
Finally, I want to be outside as much as possible these next two months. I want to get a lot of sun because it is a rarity here outside of summer unfortunately. I need to store up as much vitamin D as I can while it is here.
Like I said — two more months of summer. It sounds like a lot of time, but I am not convinced it is. I am pretty sure it will fly by for me with baseball playoffs, driver’s ed and weights. I will definitely work in some sunny days with friends. I hope you will too. Have a great July everyone.
Braden Dohrmann is a sophomore at Montesano High School. He writes about what it’s like growing up in Montesano. He participates in many school sports and activities, works hard in class and enjoys taking vacations with his family.
