Karen Fielding

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Don’t forget to get signed up for camp this summer! @Hillcrest_SPS @PViewSPS @ReedAcademy1 @SpsTruman @Williams_SPS @FremontSPS

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Congrats to AK Staten-Ballance for signing his LOI with Evangel University today! @Hillcrest_SPS @EvangelMBB @_akstaten_

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Our 2024 Basketball Summer Camp will be here before we know it! Camp dates this year are 5/28-5/30. Get your future Hornet signed up early! @Hillcrest_SPS @ReedAcademy1 @PViewSPS @AthleticsAtSPS

Use this link or scan the QR code on the flyer to register: https://t.co/oGjTNOreWH

[Akarius Staten-ballance @_akstaten_]

Beyond blessed💙 @hillcrestbball @jfielding89 @CoachBertCapel

[Jordan Fielding @jfielding89]

AK had an amazing senior season! He can shoot the 3, finish above the rim, and guard the other team’s best player. He was unbelievable when it came to being a leader for our guys on and off the court. These last 3 years have flown by and I’m excited to see what’s next!

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Tomorrow is the semifinals of the Class 5 District 6 tournament! We play Rolla at 2:30 pm at Marshfield High School. We need our student section so first 50 STUDENTS get in free with their ID Badge!!! Be there!!!! @Hillcrest_SPS

[Hillcrest High School @Hillcrest_SPS]

Next Monday is the start of Spring Athletics! If you need a new Sports Physical or Annual Requirements packet, please stop by the main office before Monday. Sports Physicals must be on file before you can tryout.

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Our annual “Big Dill on The Hill” Pickleball Tournament is underway! Big thank you to our participants, sponsors, & volunteers! @Hillcrest_SPS

[Teddy Mitrosilis @TMitrosilis]

Two summers ago, Kara Lawson was speaking to her Duke basketball team.

She wanted them to shift their mindset.

What followed was 2+ minutes of gold on how to be successful.

Here’s Lawson on embracing hard things:

“We all wait in life for things to get easier. Think in your own life. I just gotta get through this, and then it'll be easy … It's what we do. We wait for stuff to get easier.

“It will never get easier. What happens is you handle hard better.

“Most people think life is gonna get easier. Basketball is gonna get easier. School is gonna get easier. It never gets easier. What happens is you become someone that handles hard stuff better.

“That's a mental shift that has to occur and each of your brains. If you go around waiting for stuff to get easier in life, it's never going to happen. And then what happens? Oh, it's so hard. Oh, I can't do it. When is it going to be easy for me? Oh, it's easy for other people.

“It's not. It's hard. And the second we see you handling hard better, what are we gonna do? We're gonna make it harder. Because we're preparing you for when you leave here. Not just basketball – in life.

“And if you think life when you leave college is going to all of a sudden get easy because you graduated and you got a degree, it's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder.

“Make yourself a person that handles hard well, not someone that's waiting for the easy. Because if you have a meaningful pursuit in life, it will never be easy. If you're trying to win a championship, if you're trying to have a family … Ask your parents. Do you think it was ever easy for them?

“If you want to be successful, it goes to the people that handle hard well. Those are the people that get the stuff they want … If it's hard, don't get discouraged. It's supposed to be. Don't wait for it to be [easy]. It won't.

"Make yourself someone that handles hard well, and then whatever comes, you're going to be great.”

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My takeaways:

1. This isn’t about sports. It’s about building a business, building a family, building a community, being a valuable citizen and every other meaningful thing in life.

2. “Hard” doesn’t mean “bad.” There can be joy in hard things.

3. There’s a Haitian proverb: “Behind mountains are more mountains.” There’s always another one to climb.

4. What you see on social media is a facade. People make their lives look glamorous online. Behind the screen is a human being struggling through their journey.

5. None of us are immune to difficulty (even if some try to appear that way).

6. “Easy” is convenient, “hard” is fulfilling. What satisfies you in the short-term robs you in the long run.

7. Have you ever heard someone tell a story about how easy a great achievement was?

8. “Easy choices hard life, hard choices easy life” misses the point. We shouldn’t seek an easy life to begin with.

9. Instead, build your capacity for difficult things. Then find joy in the process of handling those things.

10. No meaningful life travels an easy road.

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Hope this is helpful. Follow me @TMitrosilis for more writing.

I also write a weekly newsletter on the process of improvement → https://t.co/Akm89Spodg

[Hillcrest High School @Hillcrest_SPS]

Donate to the Jennifer Bryant Memorial Scholarhip here: https://t.co/dR9odWfGzd

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[Rob Kroll @Kroll_Rob]

Jenn was a tremendous educator & person. Please consider helping her legacy live on at The Hill.

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

It’s almost time for our annual “Big Dill on The Hill” pickleball tournament! Get signed up early. Should be another great event!!! @Hillcrest_SPS @OzarksOzone

https://t.co/4Zs6LkmdbG

[Claudette Riley @CRileySBJ]

Kevin Huffman, who spent 22 years as principal of the Robberson Community School, says closing the elementary will be 'devastating' to neighborhood, students.
He wrote letter to @officialSPS board. https://t.co/qXN4gTLrVK via @springfieldNL @Robberson_SPS

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Tomorrow is finally Game Day again! Looking forward to 3 great days of competition in Rolla! @Hillcrest_SPS

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Season opener for our Freshman & JV teams are tonight starting at 5:00 pm at Hillcrest vs Aurora! See you there! @Hillcrest_SPS

[Rob Kroll @Kroll_Rob]

HHS Families, we’d love for you to attend!

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Congrats Braxton! He can do it all!
Basketball- District Champ
Baseball- City Pitcher of the Year
Track- All State High Jumper

[Hillcrest Basketball @hillcrestbball]

Good luck to Braxton Baker, Taner Hicks, and Gage Sisco as well as the rest of our @Hillcrest_SPS state qualifiers at the State Track meet over the next few days! Go Hornets!

[Hillcrest High School @Hillcrest_SPS]

Sign up for summer sports physicals.

[Hillcrest High School @Hillcrest_SPS]

Thank you Hillcrest Presbyterian! Their congregation donated $7000 to cover the cost of all Senior’s Fines/Fees removing all barriers for graduation. Additionally, the remaining funds nearly wiped out the current lunch debt for the entire student body!