Basketball has been my lifelong passion. I have had basketball on my mind ever since I can remember. I have always played basketball. Due to it being a part of who I am, I had to maintain my strength and endure despite a setback that changed my life in my junior year of high school. As the late great Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom famously said in his song “Dedication”, “Minor setback for major comeback.” I have only played within AAU for three years, but I was on the same squad the first two. Some of my closest friends are the guys on my team. These guys were like family to me as we attended the same school. Aside from my family, this group of folks was the first people I interacted with when I started playing basketball in high school. These guys …show more content…
Every team experiences highs and lows, but we manage to overcome them and grow as a unit. We may have lost five games overall over the course of the past two years. My record with this team is approximately 45 wins and 5 defeats. From the end of my freshman year to the beginning of my junior year, I was a member of this team. Those are incredibly important years in a person's life. Just before high school basketball tryouts in my junior year, I was a passenger in a catastrophic vehicle accident. I was unable to participate fully in the varsity team tryouts as a result. My career took a detour due to the limits imposed by the accident. October through January were some of my most depressive months. Fortunately, because the varsity coach knew me, he left me with an option: play junior varsity or take a year off and don’t play any basketball. At first, I wasn't sure about this concept, but I really love basketball, and I couldn't afford to take a year off because I would go insane.I immediately seized the chance I was given, prepared my desk, and got to work. I felt like I had a lot on my plate during the season, but I had to approach the task head-on and with an open
Ever since I was young my parents said “Drew you should try new things, even if it means you fail at something.” I never really listen to them until one time in the study grade when I decided that it was ok to fail. I asked my parents “ Can we look for a club basketball team that I could try out for?” Thrilled in hearing that I wanted to try something new, they found I tryout for a team called the Cincinnati Royals. A couple of other friends agreed to try out with me, but I was still very nervous because it was my first tryout. All three of us made it through the first round of cuts and were called back for another tryout. I remember being more nervous for the second tryout than I was for the first. My palms sweated the whole night, every shot I took clanked of the rim, it wasn’t my night. My two other friends were told that they made the team, but I unfortunately got cut which I expected given how I performed. At first I saw this experience as an overwhelming failure, but I soon realized that I challenged myself, and I could learn from the criticism the coaches gave me. Taking the new stuff I learned from the tryout, I found a different club basketball team that I was fortunate enough to make, which I got to meet new people and play a sport that I loved. Although I may not have gotten the
In my life, I had not had the chance to be a part of something that influenced me much, until I joined football my freshman year in high school. Joining football was perhaps the most devoted and wisest thing that I did because shortly after joining I began to see changes for the better, and from then I saw the person that I wanted to be in the future. In other words, it shaped the person that I am today and will be for the rest of my life. Not only did the sport influence me but it also equipped me with a new mindset that affects me today in my decision making skills, time management and many other beneficial life virtues. I believe that these virtues will bring me success in the nearest future because I feel confident about myself and I feel more in control in my life through my actions, all thanks to simply joining what seemed to be a “regular” extracurricular.
Starting my freshman year at County High School, I played basketball and loved every minute of it. I wouldn’t be conceited enough to say I was good, but God did bless me with the talent to play. My life revolved around the sport of basketball; some would say I slept, ate, and breathed every part of it. I spent all my time training and practicing to make myself a more dedicated athlete. This dedication not only helped me as a player, but also molded me into the person I am today. It somehow helped to prepare me for what defeat I would face with back surgery in the future.
Basketball is a great sport for people that like to run because basketball involves running up and down the court.. Some people like basketball because they like the idea of the sport or the competition. Most people have something specific that they like about basketball. For instance: Some people like free throws better than threes. Everyone has a different opinion about the game or perspective of the game that they like or dislike about it.
In 2014 I was determined to make the high school soccer team. Every day at 8 am at the beginning of a dreadfully hot August morning, I would get to the turf fields for 4 hours and participate in “hell week”. After a long week, I made the JV team. I was never put into the game and felt like my hard work was put to no use. My sophomore year rolled around and I tried extra hard to impress the coaches. Anything and everything was a competition to make it to the top. By the end of the week, we all gathered around the paper that had names of the players who made it. I didn’t make the team. After tears and telling myself to move on, I went to the field hockey tryouts. I knew nothing about the sport and was terrified that soccer wasn’t my go-to
Raised in a small town of 750 people, where high school sports meant everything, sport has played a tremendous role in my life. Basketballs and footballs replaced stuffed animals in cribs, and dribbling a basketball came before learning to ride a bike. I started playing basketball in the second grade, and I hated it. We always played in the division above us and we hardly ever won a game, but after watching Coach Summitt and the Tennessee Lady Volunteers win back to back National Championships, the same years my high school girls basketball team won back to back State Championships, I fell in love with the game. In fact, sport is what led me to the University of Tennessee; I admired Pat Summitt, not only because of the number of wins and National
It was a sad day nothing could make me happy anymore. I had been sad from the first moment I read the paper. I kept reading the list I must have read it at least ten times. Over and over again kept seeing the same names. None of the names were mine. I had finally realized I did not make the team. I was heartbroken all I have ever wanted just slipped out of my grasp. “It’s ok you’ll make it next year”, said my friend Warren. But what he couldn’t understand was that I wanted it to happen that year. I wanted to make the basketball team that year.
I started off having absolutely no idea on how to dribble a basketball. The saying practice makes perfect really did help me to flourish in this sport and my passion for being on the court grew. My goal was set on being captain and in order to fulfill this desire I had to not only prove to my team and coaches that I was capable, I also had to prove to myself that I could handle the responsibility.
I figured that I had grown about five inches since my freshman year and had gotten stronger it might be time to play basketball competitively once more. When November rolled around I was on the varsity team, but unfortunately my basketball skills was not up to par. It was tough at first, because I was a new face on the team, and the guys on the team had a great chemistry that they had built up throughout the years. After a few weeks had rolled by, I realized that I would not be in the rotation.I told myself that the team’s success is more important than my personal desired statistics.I decided to make the most of my role on the team. It was a tradition for the guys who were not in the rotation to contribute to the game in some way, guys did this by preforming stunts after significant plays and momentum shifts in the game in our favor. This was great because the crowd loved and it and more importantly my teammates fed off of the
NBA players with less than four years of experience in college assemble 52.1 % of the NBA. Also, NBA players have to be at least 19 years old to play professionally. 18 year olds can’t play in the NBA, but will be out of high school and looking for something to do with their advanced skills, but the NBA doesn’t allow kids out of high school to go pro . They make you wait one year until you can play professional basketball. High school players that can play at the professional level should be able to go straight to the NBA after high school.
This issue is very important to me as former high school athlete. I have been playing soccer since I was seven years old and continued playing soccer all the way into my high school years. The first year of my high school season was cut short after I tore my anterior crucial ligament (ACL) in my knee, which required surgery and nine months of physical therapy. During those months of rehabilitation, my coach contacted me one time to see when I would be ready to play and I did not see any of my teammates until I came back the next season. During many of my physical therapy sessions I began to question my importance and role on the team. I had the best freshman season in school hi...
Every Basketball player dreams of playing college Basketball. Your dream is to play in front of huge crowds, and fans screaming your name from the stands as you make a fascinating play in a game. But getting to this level takes more than just dreaming. You have to be dedicated, hard-working, and willing to make sacrifices to get to this level. While everyone is out there having a good time partying, you have to be disciplined enough to not fall for that trap and go in the gym and work on your craft. You will have to dedicate your summers to AAU (Amateur Athletic Union), which is a summer league basketball program that helps Amateur athletes gain exposure. Also, most importantly, you will have to stay on top of your academics sure you probably can shoot a Basketball, but how is your work ethic in the classroom? I’m putting the blueprint out for you on how to get a scholarship so that you can play college basketball
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 .
Essay #1 The definition of the word situation is location or position in reference to the environment. At the start of my junior year, I anticipated an ideal situation. My life was progressing towards all time highs in all aspects of my life; for example, relationships, sports, and family.
It was the start of summer 2002, and the Mid America Youth Basketball (MAYB) national tournament was taking place in Andover, Kansas. Along with the rest of the team, I was excited to play some basketball for the first time since the middle school basketball season was over. Our team, Carlon Oil, had been together and played every summer for the last four years. We were a really good team, with an overall record of 65-4 over those four years and were hoping to continue our legacy. Lonnie Lollar, our coach for the summer, was also the coach of our high school basketball team. I had a history of groin injuries, and every summer it seemed that I would have to sit out at least a game on the bench icing my groin. But this summer was different, and I along with everyone in the gym wouldn't have expected my summer to end with a injury such as a broken leg.