Personal Narrative: Joining The Tennis Team

As some youth’s in our society are facing challenges to become self-reliant, I also have some struggles in becoming self-sufficient. The most significant challenges that occurred to me was joining my school’s tennis team. I was never interested in physical activities, like sports. I didn’t like dealing with heavy equipment gear, running around with an equipment that weighs at least ten ounces, or worst of all sweating. As you can see I have zero experience in sports and zero tolerance in any type of physical sports. My priority was to become successful in the future and not to fool around by playing sports. Until the beginning of Junior year, my thoughts of athletic sports shifted. I’ve wondered if my grades would impact if I joined a sports

I was nervous on my first day of tennis practice, I fear what others would thought of me. All I was thinking while arriving to the tennis court is what the coach and the student would thought of me. Will they like me even though I’m terrible in sports, or they wouldn’t like me because I have no knowledge of tennis compare to other girls in the team. I felt nervous meeting new people and showing the team my bad forehand and backhand hits. After the first day, I actually enjoyed how it feels to be in a sports team and teammates who supports me. Practice was every day after school, this caused me to delay my studies, especially in AP classes. I was behind on my outlines, my unit tests scores were horrible and my average grades in the class went down hill. Seeing my grades going terrible made me feel horrendous and it made me want to rethink about tennis and focus more on school. I didn’t like how my grades were, I want to go to a four year university, graduate, and go to med school to become a pediatrician. But seeing my grades like that I felt no hope in it. I just wanted to blame tennis for causing my grades to go this far extent and ruining my