I started playing for Mercer Island because the Cobras fell apart. After the Cobras fell apart, I Tried out for Eastside select, and Mercer Island (MI) select. I could have played for Eastside with a lot of my friends from the Cobras, but they had practices in Kirkland right after school on Thursdays that would be hard to make. The tryout for MI select was about a month or two after the Eastside tryout, so the decision whether to play for Eastside or MI was hard. I decided that I was going to play for MI because I had friends from school that played on MI. MI wasn't the best team, but it was the right decision. I remember playing in a tournament in Bend, OR, that got rained out so we only got to play two games. Luckily for my team and me, almost everyone knew their way around Bend. MI had played in Bend the year before I joined, and all of my teammates learned their way around Bend. In Bend there is a water park that we went to some. I played for MI one year before going to Rijo Athletics.