Essay 2
Have you ever experienced the joy and sense of accomplishment from winning a tournament? In the year 2006, I turned fourteen years old and I joined the basketball team. I worked really hard in basketball; I still remember the sweat coming from my body, the warmth of my sweat, and the enjoyment of practicing basketball. One month later I was named captain because I was the one that worked the hardest. As a captain I wanted to win the basketball tournament by myself. The first match was on Monday. My teammates and I went to a basketball court where my tournament was held. When I entered, I saw approximately 20 basketball courts inside. When I saw the basketball courts, I felt the game was waiting for me to win. By playing in this tournament I realized that I cannot do everything by myself and I
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I was determined to do everything by myself. When the game started, I was missing shots at the beginning of the game because of my selfishness. Then my coach Ivan told the referee to have a thirty second break. With anger, Ivan said, ?What are you doing?? I just ignored my coach and did not say anything. Our team was losing and then my coach told me, ?Sit down; I won?t let you play for the rest of the game.? What he said made me angry because I thought that I could win the game without any help. When I was on the bench, I could see my team was passing the ball really well. And they confused the other team. In the end of the game our team luckily won by some points without me. And this time when my friend Janice approached me and told me with a disappointed look, ?What the heck were you doing in the game? I was all alone and you didn?t pass the ball to me.? I yelled back at her, ?I was doing what I was supposed to do in the game.? At that moment what I thought was that no one could understand me. What I left in my friend?s mind was that I could not do anything for
Basketball is a big part of my life, one year ago in tournament final game two of our best players were hurt and the team was relying on me. With the time winding down on the clock we were down 8 points. Somehow I got our deficit down to two points with 30 seconds left, after an intense defensive stop 10 seconds remained on the clock; our coach called a timeout. A play was drawn up for me to take the shot. Mitchell inbounded the ball to me as I came off of a screen, I had an some-what wide open shot, I took the shot, you could hear the crowd go silent as the ball left my hand and headed towards the basketball. It felt like everything was going slow motion, the ball was getting closer and closer to the hoop and I…….missed it. The buzzer sounded
Losing a game is not that bad but losing an entire season is disastrous. It takes a toll on one’s confidence and makes one lose their interest and ability in that certain sport. And that is exactly what happened to me during my eighth grade basketball season.
The scariest thing that I have ever experienced was dislocating my knee during my high school basketball game. While attending Forestview High in 2013 the second game of the season, I acquired my knee injury against Highland Tech. I was very excited about the game because I worked very hard to take a senior spot and was finally getting the opportunity that I was waiting for. Everyday during practice, I gave my all, all the blood, sweat, and tears that I experienced I just knew it was my time. Tuesday, November 22 we get to Highland, warm up, and finally it's time for tip-off. The first quarter I get off to a rough start getting all the jitters out. Second quarter arrives, then I began to get the feel of the game. As I penetrated down the lane after hitting a mean crossover, I came to a jump stop
I was born in a small town in Iowa. When I was 25 I got drafted in the first round pick for the golden state warriors. The event that really changed in my life was when I was on the warriors in my first game for them. I was involved because my whole life I have been playing basketball and basketball has always been my favorite sport. Everything turned out to be really good because I was so good I was the starting point guard for the warriors. After I played point guard for 15 years for the warriors then I retired and then became the warriors coach for 20 years and then retired from that and then I had so much money I bought a 2060 new mustang for 1 million dollars.
After middle school, my next goal was to become the star at my high schools basketball team. Unfortunately when I arrived the talent was much greater than it was in high school. There were kids in my grade who were dunking and at the time, and I could barely touch the net. Undaunted by the task I participated in a scrimmage with the Varsity team. The first time I got the ball I was open, so I shot the ball and missed the shot. I still kept my head up and after missing my first three shot attempts I decided that it was not my night so I tried to have a positive impact on
One of my passions is basketball. Basketball is my main passion because when I grow up my goal is to become a professional WNBA player. My other passion is reading. I love reading, anytime I have a chance I always read my favorite genre of books to read is Non-Fictional.
Outside of ASB, the only sport I play is basketball. I am currently playing for the LOHS JV boys basketball team. Even though this is a vast commitment, I still manage to meet my responsibilities in ASB, school, and at home. I have the mentality of getting my work done before anything else. Of course, basketball comes last on my agenda. In order to manage all these commitments, I must be great at time management. First, I make sure that my most paramount work is done first, and that I focus on the task at hand. I must limit my distractions. There are times where I just lock my phone away, just so that I can get my work done as agile and efficient as possible. I make sure that I have time for ASB and basketball because I keep myself determined
I was thirteen years old bouncing a basketball in my front driveway. Playing for pure joy, never thinking twice that this sport could take me any further. Little did I know that what I thought to be the simple sport of basketball would soon change my life forever.
I started basketball at the tender age of four years old. At that time, it was mostly running around a basketball court having fun, and making the parents in the crowd smile. I would not have thought at that age that basketball would mean so much. As I got older I wanted to be like my dad, and my sister, on top of being in Knoxville, Tennessee where women’s basketball, and football is almost all people care about. On rival game days when we would play the Florida Gators, UT fans would have actual alligators they killed on top of their cars. The first time I witnessed this was riding in the car on the highway, I remember distinctly getting scared and asking my dad “what is that huge this on their car”, I could not believe my eyes. I remember meeting Pat Summit at UT and it seemed like basketball was the normal process of things in my family and my
I am a football player and a basketball player and I have been playing those sports since about 2nd grade i played football for the “top city crush “and played basketball for “top city “ and i wasn’t really doing something to be a good player at first i was just playing at the time to stay out of trouble and just play because it was something fun to do until about the 7th grade that’s when my mentality for basketball changed my .
In seventh grade, I was the captain and we went all the way to the semi finals before losing to our rivals. I was pretty emotional after the game; I promised myself that I would not let my team fail ever again. That off-seasonI put in the work but something tragic happened. Our apartment caught on fire so we had to move prompting me to switch schools. However, I didn't let that setback bring me down. I worked even harder to bring my game to the next level. So I went to my new school confident that I am the best player. I was eager to meet the new competition. During tryouts I was confident that I would comfortably make the team. I knew that I was one of the, if not, the best player during tryouts. The next day I skimmed through the sheet that listed who made the basketball team and my name was not on there. I was astonished! Did the coaches not like me? I felt like a knife had just stabbed my heart. The result of my failure
Ever since I was a little boy, about eight years old or so, I had an extreme passion for the sport of basketball. On weekends, I would wake up in the morning, eat a bowl of frosted flakes or cheerios, put on basketball shorts and then go in my driveway to shoot around. I would be out there for hours just shooting around or playing with some random kids that I would occasionally see walking around my neighborhood. This was satisfaction to me, but even better was playing on multiple public teams and not just playing in my driveway every day. In elementary school, I played in a recreational league, just like almost every other kid who tries out basketball when they were younger. This was fun and all but it was nothing too serious. There were never any practices, it was just one or two unorganized games per week. I never took
Narrative: I am on a basketball team we are called the Havoc. We are mainly out of Aplington-Parkersburg (A.P.), Dike-New Hartford, and Iowa Falls. There are 6 from A.P., 2 from Dike, and 1 from Iowa Falls, and that is me. We have won tournaments in Ames, Des Moines, Cedar Falls, and Waterloo. We go all over the state, for tournaments. Our coach’s names are Andy Luscomb, and Cody Switzer. The guys on my team’s names are Elijah, Sam, Kale, Jayden, Christian, Jake, Benton, Parker, and Me of course.
All that hard work for nothing. I finally felt how feels to lose. During the summer, I started putting in extra work so that we could be the best team. I didn’t even have a basketball hoop back then so to practice my shooting I would go find a park where there was a basketball hoop and shoot there. In seventh grade, I was once again the best player on the team and the second game of the season, I had a moment that I will never forget. I was on fire that game. I couldn’t miss a shot. I felt the fire inside of me. In the fourth quarter, the other team took a two point lead with ten seconds to go. Our coach said, “Harsh you’re going to hit the game winning shot.” I was getting nervous. I felt my hands beginning to tremble. We had to win the game though. My friend got the ball and he passed it to me. I crossed my man over and hit a three. We won the game and everyone went crazy. I will never forget how excited I was after the game. Later that year, we lost in the first round of the playoffs. We were the best team and we still lost. Even though I got trophy for the most valuable player, I was breathing fast. was shocked and disappointed. This was yet another setback. That summer, I moved schools. There
With goal setting as a foundation for my daughter’s last year of high school basketball, she will be more motivated to continue pursuing sport related activities in the future. She did run with me in the Peachtree Road Race this year and during spring break, she hiked with me in Arizona on some difficult trails. So, she does consider physical fitness and eating healthy to be priorities in her life. However, to get her motivated to set the goals I just discussed and continue playing basketball will be the challenge. I believe she is most likely an outcome-oriented failure avoider. She focuses on social comparison, but fears failing in front of her friends. I think that is why she doesn’t shoot the ball very much. She is afraid someone will make fun of her shots, for example. When she is on the court, she displays a high motivation to avoid failure versus seeking maximum learning and improvement. I believe she sacrifices learning to avoid displaying low