Passion Project: Why I Want To Play Basketball

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Passion project into page For my passion project topic I choose sports and for the first page I will specifically write about basketball. I choose this topic because basketball is a big part of my life and it is what I do most of my time when not in school, and it is very important to me. I have been playing basketball since I was around 7 years old, but I never really cared too much about it until around 5th grade. Then I started to take it more seriously and fell in love with the sport and knew this was what I wanted to play. Basketball isn't just about playing basketball, there's other factors to it and other things around it. For my project I will be focusing more on the professional to college level and maybe a little bit of high school …show more content…

Like coaching because without coaches there's not much that players can do without a coach. They are in charge of the team and make most of the decisions for who goes in the game, what plays they run or what certain players do in a game. There are also things like a personal trainer that takes care of the team and players injuries. Their jobs are really important and necessary for sports teams because injuries are unpredictable and unpreventable. There are also different coaches, not just the head coach, depending on the sport there is an assistant coach as well most of the time. There are also refs that enforce the rules and officiate the game and make sure everything is running smoothly and their jobs are really important and can have a really big effect on how the games turn out and what calls are made. There are also people who make the games happen who figure out time and places when the team can play and make decisions on when they play and figure out the small details that need to happen behind the scenes that nobody really sees, but if they didn't do that part of their job there wouldn't be any games or maybe not a team. These are just as important as the players themselves, even if you don't see the work …show more content…

There are also different potions for players. On offense, there is a center who snaps the ball to the quarterback. There is an offensive guard who blocks for the ball, the offensive tackle blocks both running and passing plays, backs and receivers receive the ball from the quarterbacks to score a touchdown. The quarterback is the one that calls the plays, passes and makes the decisions with the ball. The running backs are normally the team's main ball carrier. A wide receiver is the pass catching specialist and the tight end does both tackling and receiving the ball. Hockey is also a very popular sport which is a very fast paced sport played on ice where two teams use sticks to shoot a puck into the opponents net to score points. Hockey is known for its speed and teamwork. A lot of people watch hockey for the excitement of the fast-paced game, the physicality and the thrill of the competition. It's a sport that is a combination of speed, strategy, all on the

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