Ever since I learned how to talk and walk, I played softball. It didn’t matter if it was a game during recess or during the championships of my Allen Sports Association (ASA) team, I played softball. During the summer of my fifth grade year, my friends and I decided that we would try out for the high school team as freshmen, but when the time came, I was not ready. The spring before my freshman year in high school, I had broken my thumb, ironically playing softball; it was the prime time for my undefeated ASA team, Crush, to literally crush our opponents, but I didn’t even get to play one game. Later on, during summer, my cast finally came off and I was excited to get back into the scheme of softball. My friends and I were like the characters …show more content…
My days began with going to the gym early in the mornings and going to the park to practice my batting swings and catches in the evening. I even managed to save up some allowance money to spend on the high school’s softball summer camps. However, my time fell short, and the day of the infamous tryouts had begun. My rambling thoughts were running bases through my head. How will I try out in front of hundreds of other girls? Will they laugh at me? Would I even make it? Will my friends make it? While my anxiety got the better of me, the head coach yelled out my name, and I slowly and steadily walked up to the batting box, and got ready for the pitcher to toss a fastball at me. Time slowed down as I anticipated the pitch; my fingers almost lost the grip on my bat waiting, but then, I saw the softball coming my way. I took a deep breath, and I hit it as hard and as fast as I could; it made it all the way to the outfield. I stood there shocked that I could do that, grinned ear to ear, and did a little happy dance on my way back to the line. My friends were celebrating and came up to high-five me when I got to the end of the line, and the varsity first basemen, a celebrity in my eyes, came up and complimented me on how far I hit the softball. A varsity member had spoken to me.
Though the practices performed within softball literacy do not immediately seem as if they should be considered a literacy practice, according to two of the six propositions about the nature of literacy, it is. Not only does it involve the physical performance from a play, but also includes formal writings, new rules and regulations, and offer different rules in different countries. I think softball should be counted as a literacy practice because it appeals to Barton and Hamilton’s propositions and includes artifacts that make it a community and artifacts that provide the players with essential people skills.
I have played softball for four years, Softball has always come to me naturally. It was my third year playing when I moved to Friendswood, I was new to everything. During this year I met a girl named Shaye Brockwell. She was really nice to me and we hung out many times. Then her dad started coaching and I got on their team the next year and everything changed.
Of all sports that I have seen I can say with all confidence I never thought softball would be my sport.When I first thought about playing softball I thought I could never do it. Then as I finally agreed to play softball I was completely petrified. I got on the field and the first thing I did was mess up and I messed up bad. I barely could catch a ball here I was standing there watching everyone play like pros. When I got up to bat I hit the ball but the bat vibrated down and swole up my thumb. I was completely embarrassed and immediately was out cause I was too busy freaking out.
Meeting new friends, finding my second family, learning the definition of hard work, discovering something to dedicate my life to: softball. Growing up in this constantly changing world softball is the one thing that has always been constant. Softball helps me to escape from the worries and struggles of everyday life. It has taught me coordination, been my escape, fueled my passion, inspired my competitiveness, and given me strength.
My 8th grade year of high school I was on the softball and basketball team. My freshman year I was on the basketball and softball team, and a BHS Dazzler which is danceline. Softball was my main sport, but I did everything else until it was time to play softball. I feel in love with softball at an early age. I would play every summer and each year my love for the sport grew. Each year when I played softball in Vidalia or Jonesville I would make all-stars.
I have been play softball for almost 13 years. When I was young my grandpa got me into playing and ever since I loved it. Softball is not just a game to me it’s a passion. Over the years of playing I became great at almost every position. The only position I am not that good at is pitching but that okay because I am not a pitcher. You can put me anywhere on the field, I won’t complain. But the position I love to play more than others is catcher. I love the rush of making sure the ball doesn’t go past me or making sure the other team doesn’t advance to the next base.
Softball has impacted my life tremendously throughout the years. I first started playing softball at a very young age. My dad taught me everything he could about the game. He coached me till I was in the seventh grade. I took his knowledge of the game and tried to teach my other teammates. This earned me a captain spot my junior year. Softball has brought me very close to my dad as well as my coaches and teammates. I love the game so much I volunteered as the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade coach this summer. Coaching these girls the game of softball and some components of life was one of the hardest things I have ever done. I learned how hard it is to coach and teach. I gained a new respect for anyone that has taught me. I didn't realize
I have played softball since my freshman year. Before I entered high school I never played a sport because that was the culture of my household. Growing up my parents didn’t want me to play sports because they feared I would injure myself, and they worried that my teammates would not accept me dressed in my hijab. Still, I wanted to challenge myself and find a group of peers. I discovered I had a talent for the game, and I worked hard to develop it, going to practice at 6 o'clock in the morning and staying after school until 6 or 7 pm. Eventually, I earned my teammates respect and have been captain of the team for the last two years. I was also selected as one of the top 20 catchers in the city. Players and coaches from opposing teams are constantly
This was a forced writing that my digital literacy teacher told us to. On November 13 it is world kindness day and on that day we celebrate by helping someone or someone helping you. My first season of softball was a good season because I had a coach that expaned everything to me because I was clueless on how to hit, catch, throw, and field a ball, but once I learned I started to get the hang of things and go with the flow.
Life is full of many struggles. One struggle i have experienced is being afraid to play softball, because i didn’t have as much experience as others and I wasn’t as good as others. I first started playing rec softball when i was in sixth grade, which is pretty late. Of course, because i started playing so late, i wasn’t as good as everyone else. I was scared to play at first, and playing with people who were better, than me was very intimidating. As the year progressed, I got better and learned how to play the game. I obviously wasn’t the best player on the team, but I could keep up. In sixth grade, I was a pretty horrible batter, but i knew how to play in the field.
When I first started playing softball, I never thought I would be where I am today, which is finishing up my senior year of college and still playing softball. I started playing softball at the age of nine, with no skills and only knowledge from watching baseball on television, learning to play a new sport was challenging, but learning to play a sport with teammates was rewarding and tested my willpower and determination for the game. However, through tenacity, patience, hard work, and constantly practicing, my playing ability developed rapidly. Depending on what level of softball I was playing, we practiced anywhere from four to ten hours a week as a team, and individually I would put in two to three hours a day. Although practice didn’t make me perfect, it taught me to never give up and that if I wanted to live my dream as a college softball player, I was going to have to develop the work ethic to get there.
Whether it was something simple as responsibility after forgetting cleats at home or bonding with teammates, every softball season comes with a new finding. Over the years, I have realized how I learn. Personally, I do not handle yelling well; I learn best by someone saying what I am doing wrong and what they would like to see done instead. Another example is that I learned my priorities. Many of my previous teammates considered softball number one, while I would rather be finishing my paper due the next day or hanging out with my loved ones. there was just more important things in life to me. Playing softball made me realize how precious my time was and that my priorities needed
My mom had convinced me by saying that my grandma “would have wanted me to do it.” She had passed away the year before. I was apprehensive about playing in a harder, competitive league. I made the youngest team; most of the girls were in the 7th grade. The man in charge of Chi-Town, Coach Mike, had once told me “Cassie Shanks, now that is a softball name.” I wasn’t exactly sure what he meant by it, but I took it as a compliment. Chi-Town kicked my butt in the beginning. They taught me how to throw and catch correctly (both hands!), how to turn my body to catch a fly ball, how to pick up a grounder and immediately turn to my side in order to throw it. They taught me discipline and how to work hard to get the results I wanted. It was like what Tom always told me, “practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes
Many people choose to exercise at the gym, at home, or they participate in a sport. Research shows, “playing sports is the best physical activity that helps to improve the functional capabilities of body” (“Physical Activity for a Healthy Weight”). Playing sports, especially softball is beneficial to a person’s health, as shown by achieving better grades, maintaining healthy weight, building up self-esteem, and most importantly learning how to work together with others. Softball is “a sport similar to baseball played on a small diamond with a ball that is larger than a baseball and that is pitched underhand” (“Softball”). These benefits allow teenagers and adults to find out who they are and to use the strengths they learn from softball in the rest of their lives.
If softball hasn’t been my entire life, it’s played an extremely large role in shaping nearly everything that has made me who I am today. I started at the age of seven, made my way through middle school, high school, eight years of year around travel ball, and now I’m currently playing in college. I have coached recreation league teams and the middle school team, when I was in high school, and I want to continue coaching after I graduate with an MBA in Sports Management.