Friday, June 05, 2009
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
4 years of Harker Volleyball
Hardcore Harker Just messing around with the words
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2006
- Matt's first varsity serve. Confused by all the lines, it was a blatant foot fault. Happily it wasn't a sign of things to come. Matt had far and away the team's best serving percentage in his senior year (96%).
- Much to my surprise, I find it can be nerve racking watching your child play, especially when one is exposed as in volleyball.
- After playing mostly JV, Matt gets to play significant varsity time when a senior goes down with an ankle injury. Matt steps up big time.
- I feel very proud when Brian McCuen's parents remark on how well Matt is playing, and that he really should try club ball.
- Harker comes close but cannot beat King's Academy and don't get to the CCS play-offs.
- King's Academy gets hammered in the first round.
2007
- Beating King's Academy and making the play-offs.
- Getting a game off of Homestead in the first round CCS loss. They were the better team, but really arrogant. They were stunned that they didn't crush Harker.
- Seeing Matt be accepted by the older players. During his freshman year, they completely ignored him.
- Matt grew a bunch! Clearly the tallest player on the team now.
- Beating Archbishop Mitty for the first time ever in any sport at the Harker Tournament.
- Taking St. Francis to 5 games in the final match of the Harker Tournament. It was during this match that Matt H from St. Francis called a tip on himself during a crucial point. An incredible display of sportsmanship. He is lucky they won, or his teammates might not have forgiven him!
- Winning the Aptos Spring Fling Tournament. No one expected us to do that. Barely beating Aptos in the final match, despite Brian McCuen getting ejected right at the end for a really inoffensive and just silly remark.
- Watching Brian dominate all season. His approach and takeoff for back row kills were something to watch.
- Watching Joey serve when he was "on".
- Seeing the interactions between Matt, Brian, and Joey. Joey would always have this dopey smile on his face, walk up next to Matt at the net, say something to him, pat him on the butt, and Matt would struggle not to burst out laughing.
A few low points...
- My low point was after the CCS semi-final loss. It wasn't really the loss at all, it was the realization that I would probably never see Matt play a competitive team sport again. I loved seeing him develop along side his team mates. It is such a joy to see kids who can run, jump, pound the bejesus out of the ball, and dive on the floor. Especially, now I find it so hard to do anything of the kind. I wasn't prepared for it to come to an end so suddenly.
- Loosing the last 3 games against Homestead after winning the first two. And then getting shellacked by Los Gatos 3-0.
There were so many more high points!
- Coming back against Mountain View behind Eugene's great serving
- Seeing Matt play outside for the first time and watching him "dome" some poor kid trying to block.
- Beating three teams at the start of the Los Gatos tournament when we had all the juniors out for SATs except Chad. I arrived in the middle of one match and felt like my cheering made a difference, which is ridiculous and not at all true, but that's how it felt! Matt played outside for the second time and just played great.
- Seeing the support (finally) from Harker students for the last 3 home games.
- Climbing the rope in the wrestling room. Using a tie-tack as a pierced ear ring, much to every one's surprise. Seeing Kevin Foo dunk the volleyball like a beast, and finally getting to see Matt dunk.
- Beating Los Gatos 3-0. This was their first and only league loss.
- Beating Homestead 3-1 in the last game of the season on Senior Night. Capped off by Daniel Tien's ridiculous 1 handed block for the final winning point. Harker was undefeated on our home floor for the entire season.
- Shouting "FOOOOOOOOOOO" at the top of my voice along with the rest of the Harker crowd, whenever Kevin Foo would make a great play.
- Shouting "W000000000000T" at the top of my voice whenever Matt would make a good play. And he made a bunch of them!
- Seeing Matt get to play the entire rotation at the end of the season and doing a good job in the back row.
info in flickr photoset (screen shots)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/milesgehm/sets/72157618967702693/
Saturday, May 30, 2009
episode 3 of AnD bliss series
transcribing...
i'm on foot
and you speeding past
i wish for his car to crashand
i would pull you from the wreck
you'd be fine
he'd break his neck
but outside the prom
it's him on top
beating me up in the parking lot
...
tell me i'm not good enough for you!
you used to let me tie you up when you lived next door
Friday, May 29, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Friday, May 08, 2009
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Harker defeats Los Gatos -- Boys HS volleyball
Harker upsetts the heavily favored Los Gatos 3-0 on Wednesday 5/6/09. Senior Matt Gehm is the Harker kills leaders. The only other senior on the team, Daniel Tien, seals the victory with a clean solo block. The crowd and your photographer, Matt's dad, go totally ape shit!
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Friday, May 01, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
eddie and the hot rods
Eddie& the Hot Rods tear it up at San Jose's Blank Club covering THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT! The Sex Pistols opened for these guys back in '77 and they are still rocking!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
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