Personal Narrative: I Was New To The Euclid Football Team

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The year was 2015 and I was new to the Euclid Football Team. I was a shy, quiet person and was also paranoid but I don’t think anybody noticed my shyness and my little bit of weirdness. As I sat down in the little theater waiting for our new Head Coach, the atmosphere was electric, curious, and also pumped as we all waited. I was meeting new people including people I’ve known since my sophomore year. Some of them were cool, but some of them I didn’t like because I thought some of my new teammates were just sneaky but how should I know? I’m just now coming to the football team so I’m just assuming things. Five minutes later, our new Head Coach, Jeff Rotsky, was finally here. He was a middle-aged, Jewish-white man with a winning attitude

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