One of the things i miss about high school was playing on the boys basketball team it was one of the best things i did throughout highschool. Our team wasn't that great but i still had a lot of fun playing. Basketball is my favorite sport to watch on television and play. My favorite professional team is the San Antonio Spurs and my favorite college team is obviously the Wisconsin Badgers. I wasn't always into basketball i actually really sucked at basketball and only did it because all of my friends went out for it.
In jr high I was pretty much just a bench warmer and one of the shortest kids on the team. I barely played at all and when i was in eight grade my coach asked me if i would be all right with playing on the 7th grade team so i would get more playing time and i was like no. Once high school started i still went out for basketball and i really don't know why. Freshman year of high school i played c team and still pretty much sat on the bench all season. I only played if we were up by a lot which didn't happen a lot or if we were down by a lot which did happen on occasions. Once my sophmore year started i started to play basketball in the morning at our school with some other people at 6 and i slowly started to get better. I saw a lot of my friends in my grade play junior varsity. Here i was still on the c team but i actually played more than two minutes in a game.
After my sophmore year i knew that i wanted to get better and i saw older people that were seniors and played varsity but my coach would never play them because they sucked and i didn't want to be one of them. I got my drivers license and every morning i would go to the gym and play basketball and try and get better. I also finally started to grow at the beginning of my sophmore year of high school i was 5 ft 7 in and now im almost 6 ft 4 in. After my sophmore season i continually practice and got better and my jr year i finally made the jv team and started all of the jv games.
During my junior season i screwed up pretty mad and my coach got all in my face and started screaming at me and telling me how i keep making the same mistakes. This drove me to keep getting better and by the end of my junior season i was on the varsity squad. Over the summer before my senior year i practice harder than ever and i knew that i wanted to start varsity.I was now the tallest kid on our team instead of one of the shortest. The First game of the season my hard work paid off and i started and scored 14 points. The next day at practice my coach said that he could not believe how far i have come since freshman year and from junior year to senior year and it felt really good. I had people coming up to me saying that they remember when they saw me on c team and didn't think i would ever be a good basketball player. It was nice to see my hard work pay off and i believe if you put practice in you will get the results you want.
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Sports are a great way for building self esteem and social interaction. I too was on the basketball team and found I enjoyed being apart of a team. I think this satisfaction from being on a team and trying to obtain the same goals eventually lead to my military career; where I enjoyed going out as a team and accomplishing missions.
ReplyDeleteI'm having sports withdrawhls too. Yah I still play basketball, and volleyball but its just not the same. I miss cheerleading too not cheering as much as stunting and getting thrown up in the air. I miss the thrill of trying new risky stunts, and dancing.
ReplyDeletethis is a great story!! I competed in gymnastics all four years of high school and i loved it. Yea just like you our team wasn't gold medalists either but i had a great time competing :))
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