All About The Girls Holiday Hoops

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Every year local teams start building up their frequent flyer miles and hotel reward points to my dismay. The All About the Girls Holiday Classic has everything and can cater to any level of team. If local teams get smart they will realize that they can save a lot of money and teams will travel here to play them. Coach Al's AATGHH plays tournament style and pays homage to some of our founding members of DMV girls basketball and is growing every year. Mental note for teams next year, save some cash to put back into your programs and give Coach Al a call. This year gives us the James Nichols Division, Saladin Reese Division and the Terrence Butler Jr. division that honored the loss of my son. I was on hand for the Serious Hoops and Terrence Butler Jr division games and these are some of the players that caught my eye.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["611351"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":["override_image"],"_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_player_featured_image":830624,"_player_evaluations_0_player_featured_image":"field_62f141137ead9","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"Elana continued to get better as the day progressed and it continued into a championship for St. Paul School for Girls.  Elana showed good speed with the ball running the floor and she finished well after getting to the basket.  She has good vision keeping her head up and finding 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