My Failure In My High School's Softball Team

Failure is something that all people encounter in their lives. In some situations failure can break a person or make a person, meaning a person can fail at something and just simply give up. Others will fail and that failure can give them the inspiration to try harder to one day achieve their goal. I'm the type of person to fail and work harder until I am content. As my championship baseball coach would say "What’s our motto? Never give up!"

Failure can be a very difficult thing to cope with. It can be something that makes you or breaks you. I have learned that failure is what defines a person; it shows your motivation to bounce back when things get rough. I have learned from my failure instead of dwelling on it and making myself weaker.

Failing to make to the JV soccer team has been one of most impactful moments of my life, and it has changed the way I approach athletics and life outside of sports.

The coaches on the other team and all the parents and teams were watching and I got that girl out before she even got to first base and we won the game! I got two outs and the crowd cheered then we got a medal and it said for the best 6th and 5th grade softball players throughout Wisconsin #1 place, but the sad thing was we weren’t going to have the same players on the team next year and it was the last game we would ever played with each other.

Since I was five years old softball and sports have been a huge part of my life. In softball, specifically, there are many times of failure and success. High school sports, for me, has taken a lot of my time, effort, and commitment. From the first day I stepped onto the court and field to the last, I want to be able to say I did my best. It has been tough and frustrating at times. I experienced failure many times, even when I did not want to admit it. My moments of failure within high school sports have turned me into the character and person I am today. It has taught me how to take failure and turn it into success. Failure has made me realize that the only way for you to succeed is for you to fail first.

If I didn’t get to bat, I learned it was equally important to cheer on my team. If I was placed in the outfield, I was just as eager and ready to make a big play. I learned at an early age the importance of unity and being a team a player. Win or lose we all worked together in order to overcome challenges and strive for success. Because of my positive attitude and devotion to boosting team morale I ended up winning the Best Sportsmanship Award during one of our last games at state sectionals, something I’m extremely proud of. I have since had to take a leave of absence from softball due to a serious knee injury, but I continue to put forth the same amount of perseverance and allegiance towards all other aspects of my

At 10 years old I was told I wasn’t good enough to be a softball infielder, and that the outfield is where I was meant to be. I refused to accept this, although I was smallest on the team, the weakest, and probably the least likely to have any chance playing the infield, I would not be told what I could or could not be. So I worked hard.

As I put off opportunities to improve my skills, and my character, the toll only became harsher and more difficult to overcome. In turn, my status among the other athletes began to deteriorate. Witnessing my peers expedite their game as I still struggled did not phase me so much at the time. In fact, I was sure that my role on the team would remain the same. This was obviously false, as within the matter of weeks I was pushed back further in the batting lineup, and committing more errors in the field than ever before. It was during our playoff run that I had realized the resulting detriment, when each player was counted on more than ever before. We ended up making it to the championship, only being one run short of winning. Although our team was able to accomplish that much, I felt short handed when it came to the successful

To recover from this defeat, I continued playing on my previous softball team. My passion for the game drifted away that season as I

The next year as a junior I tried out for the varsity team I thought I deserved to make the team because I was fast and a strong fielder. Throughout tryouts I felt like I was doing great When I found out that I got cut I was angry and sad, but I didn’t let my emotions get to me.

The following morning my nose still hurts but I have a game to play so there is no time to dwell over it. We show up and the kids we are playing are throwing seventy, which isn’t that fast for us. I was fairly confident that we are gonna win, all of my teammates were being cocky as usual. The game started and just like that, we are losing by 4-runs, none of it was my fault. We commited 6 errors in the 1st inning, I had never been more disappointed in any team i had played with, ever. We ended up losing but I didn’t worry about it because I was going out to dinner after.

One of the biggest failures I have ever experienced would have to be sophomore year not making the high school baseball team. Baseball was something that meant so much to me and playing for a varsity team was one of my biggest dreams as a kid. When I made the freshman team I thought for sure that was my ticket to varsity. I can remember walking up to the front door on a Thursday morning praying that my name would be on the list. The moment I looked at the list I was crushed, I didn’t know what to do. All I could think is was this the end of my baseball career?

I didn’t think it was fair for a fifth grader to make varsity when she didn’t put in the effort, simply because her older sister was also on the team . I didn’t find it fair that we were placed on the lowest team and we tried as hard as them if not harder, we were as good as them, if not better, and we came to every single conditioning, practice, and meeting. Yes, I know I was given the option to leave if I felt this way, but I was determined to show them that I deserved to be right along with everyone else. Through tears, practices, games, extra workout sessions, additional batting cage time , and many arguments with my mom over the stress softball was causing me I was moved to freshman. I felt so accomplished, yet still unamused by the fact there were fifth graders dressing varsity. I don’t care to admit if someone is better than me but, they weren’t. Simply because they had siblings on the team or knew a coach personally they were placed on varsity. Fifth graders who came to about one week of conditioning moved up because of unfair circumstances, and in the end it created an unpleasant environment and negative energy over the

These failures taught me valuable life lessons and even resulted in better outcomes. My softball lost the state championship game two years in a row to the same team. While this is devastating to athletes, especially after all the hard work that is put in, losing teaches us humility and how to lose gracefully. It also helped us work harder for the next season to try to overcome the obstacle that stopped us. My second example of failure is not getting into my top choice of college. However, this ended up working out because I definitely feel as if I am happier at Boston College than I would have been anywhere else. I learned from this failure that just because one

A time when failure became fundamental to later success for me was this year during my tennis teams seeding tournament. I was competing with one of my teammates for our final top six spot. The first time we played each other I had beaten her to win 6th spot. I got to play a few of our matches as the 6th seed. Then she challenged me two more times, and she beat me pretty bad both times to set her up in 6th seed for the rest of the season. I went into playing her with the idea that I was better than her because I played longer and that she was not as good as she actually was. This failure majorly affected me not only for the rest of the season but now preparing for the upcoming tennis season. After I lost my confidence in myself went down