Tournament Action at Evergreen Mill March Madness has nothing on the sports action at Evergreen Mill Elementary School. Evergreen has three big athletic tournaments a year. Each year, physical education specialist Sam Plank stages tournaments in grades three through five in basketball, soccer and hockey. Plank begins the units on each of the tournament sports by teaching students the basic skills of the game.
Students then play for two weeks as teams with the top eight teams moving on to tournament play.
Non-stop action, it's pretty wild. Students compete in two-minute shifts with each of the 14 players on each team getting into the action. There's nobody standing around. And while things get competitive, they don't get that competitive. Students have to shake hands after each game and display good sportsmanship.