Personal Narrative: My Coach

The person I respect is my coach, Lee. Around November last year I met coach. It was during, my game, against his team, I had just stole the ball, when Lee walked to my mom, and talked to her. After the game he introduced himself and we talked. Once we got in the car my mom told me Lee said he wants me to come to a practice of his, and check it out. Sadly it took me several months to come see what his practices were like. I’m thankful I did because he’s the best coach I’ve ever had and I like his qualities, even though he’s very strict.

Soon enough he announced to the team I was joining for sure. Astonishingly they were all very nice. I was surprised they were so nice because I’ve played pretty dirt against them, and I have made a few enemies. As odd as it is my biggest enemy became the best friend I’ve ever had. From my first practice I already loved my new team. Lee taught me so much even from just a few weeks of coming to his practices. Eventually he had me playing like six minutes out of the eight of each quarter. I wasn’t a starter but I was getting a lot of play time. So I practiced harder and harder until I became a starter.

Lee is my sister’s coach also so at one of her tournaments, in Yakima, coach Lee was there.

Coach encouraged me to pay attention to the game, so I did. After the game he explained some of the basketball plays they ran, so I was ready at the practice when he would teach us them. He also made me the water girl for the older teams which isn’t very fun. He was helping me talk yo the other girls and meet them though. Fortunately, I met plenty of girls and they were pretty nice too. Now I’m not as shy and can play basketball without getting embarrassed when I make a mistake, because I’m really shy so if I know the person well I won’t really

care.
Another time, Aliyah (my friend), and I were at our sisters game, then we got bored. Well as I told you Lee can be very strict and or hard on us. I never knew how strict he could be until Aliyah and I wanted to have a little fun. We went into the hallways and started hallway surfing, until Lee saw us. He yelled down the hallway “Get your behinds in here and watch some basketball!” Aliyah and I quickly replied “Yes coach!” Then sat down on the bleachers and watched some basketball. Except we didn’t watch our sisters because Aliyah and I were mad. We wouldn’t get in trouble either because all Lee said was “Watch some basketball.”
Basically, Lee is a very strict coach but he’s good at what he does. For example at our basketball games he isn’t one of those coaches that jumps up and down and yells at his players when they make a mistake. He peacefully calls you in and explains what you did wrong. Or another example is when he suspects you might leave the team he just talks it over with you, shows you is it really a good team to switch to. He’ll let you think about for as long as you need, but he still wants you going to practice and getting better until you decide. That is why I respect Lee and his qualities.