March Madness. It’s the time when fans are filling out brackets and cheering on their teams. In addition to high school and college basketball, there is another basketball tournament going on in Kansas with an even higher purpose.
Kelly Love is director of the National Division II Christian Homeschool Association Tournament which happens each spring in Kansas. The tournament, called NDII for short, is for qualifying homeschool groups with organized basketball teams.
Kelly was a basketball player herself as a young girl. Born in California, she and her family moved to central Kansas when she was nine. Here in Kansas, she found love – in more ways than one. In fact, she met and married her husband Dale Love. She and Dale raised a son and two daughters on their family farm. While the kids were still little, the Loves felt a calling to try homeschooling their children. They found it very worthwhile.
The Loves’ children started playing on the local homeschool families’ basketball team, the Reno County Sabres. Kelly even coached the team for four years, including their participation in an end-of-season Kansas homeschool team tournament that had been founded in Wichita in 1996.
