[Justin M.]

We have the time, we have the money, and we definitely have the drive.

The problem is that one of our coaches has got cold feet about going, and is being incredibly hard to reason with since we've gotten the news. We told her it should be a team decision, but almost all of our ideas discussed at our meetings we're not even taken into consideration. We've been getting unjustifyable no's since Monday, with the only reason she can give us is that he is the only "adult" going. However, our team's nats roster has dropped from 10 to 5 team members as of last Friday, some people can't make it. 3 of those team members are over 18 to begin with. So to satisfy her requests, my mom will go with, so she can just register us already. The only issue is my mom won't know 100% until late Wednesday.

Our other coach is more than supportive of us going (and the team in general, he's been with us since '99), so hopefully we can get a spot. Apparently, he's been notifying our other coach that we can still get on a waiting list since January, and she's been telling him we aren't going.

Just a heads up to future teams that the students and team members need to keep their head in administration aspects of the team throughout the season. If I would of caught wind of this in January, it would of been fixed, and our plane tickets and hotel keycards would be in our hands by Feburary.