Everything 's For A Reason

He tried out for every single sports team possible in middle school and didn’t ever make the first cut. One summer he called one of his friends to practice basketball, his friend practiced with him everyday of the

Everyday in the summer Bernie would go to an asphalt basketball court at the park four blocks from his house and practice basketball. After three weeks of practicing the older kids asked him if he wanted to play with them. Bernie was shocked that they asked him. He told them that he would play. Bernie got the ball, drove to the basket, shot a layup, and got blocked. This happened every time he drove to the basket. He was a good shooter and passer, but every time he drove he seemed to always get his shot blocked. The summer came to a fast end, and next thing he knew basketball tryouts were right around the corner. Two days before tryouts bernie worked very hard, so he could be the best basketball player he could be at tryouts. The day of tryouts Bernie was so nervous he couldn't even focus in school. Bernie arrived at tryouts, he saw many people who were better and bigger then him. The court was massive and blue for the team colors. He did not let this bring him down. They scrimmaged the whole time. Again, every time he would drive he would get blocked. Bernie was a very good shooter, but whenever he drove he would get blocked.At the end of tryouts Coach Williams asked Bernie to come to his office. Bernie walked in, and sat in the chair next to his

Carlos sat in bed for a whole two weeks before he came out of his guilt. When he went to school, he realized “Oh no! Football tryouts.”

It was two weeks before the state championship game and Ella and her team had been working really hard to win. Every year Ella's team had made it to state and every year they had lost in the first round. Ella wanted to change that this year and so far it looked like Ella and her team were on the right track. They got up at 5 AM every morning to go to practice at 5:30 and then turned around to go to practice at 3 everyday after school. Their coach drilled them so hard that they could've done every play, drill, and made every shot in their sleep.

Tyler got up to the plate and was ready for BP. His dad throws a pitch and Tyler hits the ball two feet. His dad throws him another pitch Tyler swings and misses. Tyler took batting practice for a good 10 minutes before he actually hit the ball. Jack says “I think the bat didn’t help him get any better”. Tylers dad had bigger dreams for Tyler then anybody I know in the whole world.

People learn about his past and begin to bring up his mother’s death. He begins to work even harder at football, every day he improves, the teasing begins to slow. After weeks of proving to the coaches that he can play, he earns a starting spot. He begins to make friends on the team, Some people start getting on his side.

When he was in the high school, he was the first player to attend the practice and the last one leave. In his sophomore he joined the varsity team, but he was cut from the team early in the season because the coach thought that Michael would benefit more by playing jayvee ball than by sitting on the varsity bench. Michael was angry and embarrassed that he had been cut. Late in the season, the varsity team wanted to add one more player to the team. Michael was expected that they would choose him, but they didn’t. They were looking for a big man, so they call Leroy Smith who was six inches taller than Michael. It was not the last time that Michael’s talents were overlooked. Michael didn’t give up because of this attitude, he said that he promised himself from this point that will never happen again, and he started working hard more than before. Michael began cutting classes to work on his basketball skills. His parents were wired about him, so they talked to him. Michael told them that he had a goal and he had to work hard to reach my goal and he

The next day Colten goes into school and everyone is congratulating him but it doesn’t make him feel happy this time. This time he just keeps a straight face and goes to math class. When walking into class, he looks at the board and sees an equation that looks like a foreign language that he doesn't understand. Colten starts to stress. He feels discouraged and begins to accept that he probably isn't going to make the game.

While Tyler was at school walking down the hall with his varsity jacket on, coach said “ You are your secret weapon for the championship game coming up”. Tyler is the captain of the baseball, he is strong, athletic, and is the star pitcher for the baseball team. As Tyler woke up the next morning he walked out to the big white mailbox to get the mail, thinking “what a good day” until this happened. He tripped over the sprinkler head and fell hard on the solid sidewalk. Right then he knew something didn’t feel right about his knee.

He played call of duty and NBA 2k online with his friends for about two hours, having a good time winning and talking trash to his friends then he decided to go hang out and relax outside with some more friends. Derick was just relaxing with some friends outside having a good time, then some of the other neighborhood boys came along asking to play a football game. Today was going perfect for Derick and he didn’t really feel like playing football, he didn’t want to get sweaty, but he decided to anyway just to show off. As he was playing Derick was dominating the game running past everyone and catching balls over people, the other kids began to get really frustrated because they couldn’t stop him from scoring. It was tied up and each team needed one more score to win the game. The other team had the ball trying to score, but Derick wasn’t allowing any of that, so as the quarterback of the other through the ball Derick jumped in front of the pass and intercepted the ball. Derick’s team had the ball and the other team began to get even more furious. They were playing on the street in front of homes because there weren’t any fields close by. So the quarterback threw Derick the ball and as he was running he tried to juke the defender than, boom, Derick had slipped on some rocks and ran into the mailbox. He was on the floor in excruciating pain. The

As soon as Khalil started playing on the travel team he would have his own private coach because he really wanted to pursue his dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. Khalil was able to improve his techniques in the game by seventh grade. Khalil would constantly ask his parents to take him to baseball games so he could watch his favorite players play. By fall of his eighth grade year Khalil made a tough decision to stop playing baseball as active and focus on his school work and his drama productions. Anytime Khalil had free time he would go to the park with his friends to play and talk. Basketball had become a sport Khalil was getting good at but he never thought he would be good enough for a team. So instead of joining a team Khalil just went to the park with his friends and just played games with them. Khalil’s father also found a love for basketball and Khalil’s father became an avid fan of LeBron James. After seeing how exciting the game of basketball is he tried and tried to pursue Khalil to join back on a team so he can watch his son play.

He also had gym with Jonathan Baller. Stewart hated Jonathan Baller. He was really good at basketball and this week happened to be basketball week. This week he was in his prime. He would always make fun of Stewart for being bad at sports. He would tell him, “ Why don’t you get a life and play a sport loser.” That would always get on Stewart’s nerves cause he knew he was bad at sports but he could never think of something to say back. However, Cody was in the class which always made him feel better. Cody wasn’t the best at sports but he was certainly better than Stewart. Coach Henderik was the teacher for gym. For some reason he always made Stewart uncomfortable but he couldn’t quite figure it out. Henderik told the class to get together in groups of their choice. He knew what Henderik was doing he did it anytime we had a team sport. He would let the students group up and then give them numbers and split them up. He was surprised that barely anyone had figured it out. Cody and Jonathan were in the majority and they were in a group together. Then Henderik split them up and Jonathan got mad. He shouted, “ Why do you always split me and Cody up!”. Henderik responded,” Jonathan, I split everyone up.” Everyone said, “Johnathan your so stupid!” and I took this opportunity and joined in. Then Henderik said “ Everyone quiet down and let's play basketball.” I was on Team One, Cody was on Team Two, and Jonathan was on Team Three. When Henderik wasn’t

The story is about a boy by the name of justin,who thought that playing basketball was “ the one way out of his neighborhood”.In the beginning we learn that justin was a very skilled basketball player who can “drop” anyone in his local court.This came to an end when one day a boy from another neighborhood challenged justin to a basketball game,though reluctant at first justin accepted and just as justin was about to do a lay up the bot shoved justin busting up his knee.After a visit to the doctor justin learns that he may never play basketball with the same amount of skill ever again.Later after six weeks of self pity his sister cheers him up by pointing out that even though he may not ever play basketball he still has to worry about his grades.After

She walks up to the coach and in a firm, strong voice says “Weston can not be on the team anymore, he is failing all his classes, even music!” in shock his coach says “Oh ok, I totally understand, but are you sure you want to do this?” his mom responds kind of sadly but reassuring “Yes, it’s the right thing to do.” He can rejoin once his grades get up.” Once she was done talking to the coach most of the kids were lined up getting ready to play including Weston who had a worried expression on his face. His mom comes toward him takes him by his arm and whispers “It’s for the best” and walks him off the field he starts to whimper and he knows he needs to get his grades up and fix everything. The next day and the further weeks he tried his best to pay attention and do what he needed to to stay on the team he could already tell he was paying attention and doing better because he was tired and would finish his homework in school and would raise his hand which was a big thing for him. After a week and a month he was the number one student in his school team and even got his first A on a test since forever. His mom saw all this and was proud for what he worked for,so she put him back on the team. In the end he finally got back on the team before they competed at finals and they

Ross Beverly was an 8th grader at Oakleaf Middle School when he got invited onto the local AAU basketball team named the Royals. He lived about five miles away from the Buffalo Grove Royals which was hard to get to since his mom doesn 't have a car. He has to either get a ride from his friend who lives next to him, or walk. It takes him a little less than an hour to walk with his stinky bag of worn out basketball shoes and knee pads that probably don’t help when he falls at all. Ross had played on the Oakleaf Middle School basketball team that had gone from not even making the playoffs, to winning the championship against Elk Grove Middle School. He had been named team MVP every year he was on the