How NHS Has Influenced My Life

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I have loved my years here at NHS. One NHS instance that has influenced my life happened to take place in Lincoln, Nebraska. This moment changed me and truly shaped me into the person I am today. Sports is a huge part of my life so it was fitting that a basketball game provided a turning point in my life.
Two years ago, my basketball team and I made the 123 mile trip from hometown, Norfolk to Nebraska’s state capital to compete in the annual Class A State Basketball Championships. We had an astonishing 25-0 record heading into the tournament. Our 25-0 record was the best in the state and something that had never been done before in our school’s history. We went into our first round matchup thinking we were just going to show up and walk our way into the state final. Boy were we wrong. We got down early and were never able to recover. When the final buzzer sounded and we were on the losing end, my team and I were in shock. What had just happened? We were suppose to win the whole tournament, but now our season had come to a screeching halt. That one loss taught me more than all 25 of the previous wins combined.
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This time we went down to Lincoln with a different attitude and with a little bit of swagger. Being from Norfolk, our teams never have players that can jump the highest or run the fastest but the one thing that Norfolk teams always seem to have is passion. I can guarantee that our team and community wanted that state championship more than any other team in the entire state of Nebraska. I am so proud of our team. We learned from our past state experiences and were finally able to come out on top. That previous three years taught us to take it one game at a time and that is exactly what we did in the 2017 state tournament. We trusted in each other and there was never a doubt in any of our minds that we were not the best team in the state. We just had to go out and prove it once and for

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