Examples Of Literacy Narrative Tennis

Literacy Narrative RD 1 As most children did, I had the choice to play whatever sport I wanted. Considering my height, 5’10, most would assume that I played either basketball or volleyball. No one expected me to play tennis, and was surprised when I said that I did. During my elementary years, I played softball for seven years, and when I hit eighth grade, I decided to play tennis. My decision came about because of my sister. I had always followed closely in her footsteps because I looked up to her a lot, so when I saw she was playing; I wanted to try it out too. I had never really thought about what it would be like to play tennis. I didn’t hate it, or really know what it would be like to play it. And little did I know that playing would demand so much time, energy, and effort.

When I started, it took months of private lessons, from multiple international coaches who were here for school at OSU, and practicing all the time with my parents or sister to learn all the correct stances, grips, and angles that I could hit the ball. Lessons with the foreign coaches were fun, but

For my school, sport practices were after school and not an actual class until tenth grade. Since I had taken lessons the summer before, I was pretty decent among our group of players. I knew the basic grips, and how to keep score. I always kept a solid spot in what was called the top six, sort of a junior varsity; those six players got to travel to play in tournaments. Being on the team was fun, and drama filled. The coach was not the best, she usually sat on a bench and told us what to do, not even a master of tennis herself, and overweight, so she was on the courts physically showing us what to do as little as possible. During my junior high years, eighth and ninth grade, we won a lot of medals, and goofed off a lot, but it did not get really competitive until high