College Admissions Essay: Tryout In High School

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There is no doubt in my mind that one cannot succeed without failing, people view failure as a halt in progress but i disagree completely. Failure just brings you closer to the goal you are trying to achieve. People often think about how they could have prevented their mistakes and often ask themselves, “What could I have done differently?” Sometimes it’s not worth finding out. Middle school was a very exciting time in my life, meeting new friends and taking in new experiences. I was in the seventh grade when I decided I wanted to try out for the school basketball team. Going into tryouts the only basketball experience I had was playing intramural basketball in the sixth grade and shooting around in my driveway while growing up. Tryouts lasted …show more content…

I wanted to make sure I was not going to get cut in high school and made it a goal to make the high school team. During that summer I participated in a lot of basketball camps, including practicing and playing with the high school summer ball team and going to tournaments and getting a better experience and becoming more familiar with high school basketball. Tryouts were two days after my birthday, in November, and all I wanted was to do good and make the basketball team. Tryouts come around and i'm extremely nervous and the support of my friends was not helping me as much as it should have. High school tryouts were a little different than middle school, we would show off our handling skills, and then we would do shooting drills. Towards the end of tryouts we were split up into four teams and would scrimmage. I did everything that we had to do well and I was feeling very impressed with my performance. Choosing day comes around and I am feeling very confident but still nervous. He starts to call off names and thankfully he called off mine, and when he did the feeling I had was unforgettable, all the stress and disappointment from previous years of trying out had finally come to an end, and all the hard work that I put in finally paid off and I couldn't be anymore proud of

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