My Favorite Experience In Life

Softball has been around since 1887. No one knows how hard it is to become a successful softball coach: “It’s a lot harder being a coach than being a player. You as a coach have to think about everyone and plan for every scenario”(Kelsey Jones). The first national championship was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1965. In 1982, softball officially became a part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA).

I have always played the same three sports in elementary school, baseball, soccer and basketball but the summer before 7th grade I wanted the try something new and play football but because I didn't know much about it I was having a hard time deciding if I was going to play or not. But When football season came around i signed up.

A year later, I was accepted into varsity. At first, it was nerve-wracking because I didn’t know anyone. I started to work hard every single day because I knew that I had to practice harder than most people. If I don't, the team would be curious on why I was even accepted. On the first week of practice, it was called hell week. At first, I didn't think that it would be anything hard. On the first day of practice, we had to get to the gym at 5 AM until 8 AM and 13 out of 18 people went. We were conditioning the

The coaches said that we weren't gonna get the results until a couple days, but those days I was so anxious. Finally the day we were gonna find out the results came. My mom opened up her email and she found out that I made the team with some of my fellow friends from school. I was so excited for my first day to come. That first season of competition was very nerve racking but at the same time so fun. I even remember at one competition I placed first all around in my division. After the first season of competing on silver, my coach wanted to see if I was ready for gold. They put me through one gold practice and I moved up to the gold team. I didn't know a lot of people on that team, so I had to make

My freshman year I hated it because it didn't come as easy as all the other sports I play. I pushed through and got to be number eight on the varsity team. Sophomore year came and I was excited to play at the same spot with my partner, Kimberly. We went undefeated that year as the number three doubles. When sophomore year was coming to a close I noticed everyone ahead of me were seniors, meaning they were all leaving and I would jump all the way up to the number one spot. My coach, Alisha, assured me that I was going to do great. Junior year came and I was nervous, it was my first year playing at the number one spot. The first couple matches that I played were terrible because I was so nervous and not as loose as I should have been. As the season was going by I realized I had nothing to loose so I started playing my own game, and that’s when I started to win. I went five and five that season. This transferred over to my senior year, I only lost two matches and went undefeated in league. I was number one in the division and the team got co-champs with Liberty High School. I learned not to underestimate myself because that's what I did that whole first half of the

Being on the team for my first year was the turning point of my life. I was the beginner who could not learn the dances as fast as the other girls. I felt alone and a burden to the team. The hardest thing I had to deal with was not making the

I started on the basketball and football team. The thing about basketball though, is that I didn’t have the best attitude. Basketball is the sport I love and when I had a bad game I would get down on myself. It never worked out for me when I got down especially during a game because it threw my game off. I never learned how to control it this year, so basketball had its up and downs. A part about me being a freshman and that I was a Junior High kid but also a High School kid which meant I played High School sports. I quit High School football for a little while and joined

Volleyball is a very important part of my life. This year I was team captain of the JV team for the second half of the season. I enjoyed mentoring the underclassman on our team and encouraging them to be the best they can be. I was also willing to step up and fill in for the statistician when asked.

To play volleyball you must know the basics and be able to master them. You have to be willing to put in the practice and get along with your teammates no matter what.

Sophomore year came, and I was nervous because now there was jv dark and varsity to worry about. I came to tryouts, and gave all my effort on volleyball as well as my friends. They had made the teams, and I never expected to be in jv dark. My best friends didn 't made it to jv dark but I couldn 't miss this opportunity. In addition, I was depressed that I could not be with them, but I needed to be in a team that I knew it was going to help me become better. It surely did because now there was more tasks that I could do. My serves were something no one could receive. Consequently, the only horrible part of jv dark is that I never had the chance to play. I came to practice everyday and I followed instructions, I never complained if we ran, but the coach never showed me that I could be in the court. I did showed her, I tried to show off my abilities in volleyball for her to notice. As a result to that she always put me aside. In effect of this, it brought me down I

“To be a better volleyball player than you have ever been you have to do something you have never done before.” - Felicity Luckey. Volleyball is a sport that is played by millions all over the world, It is my favorite sport because of my team, the skills, and everyone's attitude.

It all started when I attended my first volleyball game at school. As I sat there and watched them hit the ball back and forth over the net watching how they had the perfect formation, I thought for a quick second that could have been me out on the court with them. As I snapped back into reality it dawned on me, I was not that athletic. I did not have the strength they had and I’m too short to spike the ball. Though, this did not stop me from trying out.

Playing on the varsity volleyball team is an adrenaline rush like no other. To be able to play the sport you love with teammates that are like family, in front of a crowd of actual family members is the ultimate feeling. Playing is even better when you, a small town nobody, beat a ranked team in the first set. We had just beaten Humboldt 25-17 and I was on top of the world. We were playing like our lives depended on it and I couldn’t be more proud of the girls.

I first started playing volleyball at a very young age. I was in the seventh grade when my volleyball career started. My sister started playing in the seventh grade and I just wanted to follow her footsteps. My seventh grade year was ok because I had just started out and really didn’t know the game. There was A team and a B team, where A team was better than the B team. I tried my best to be on the A-team, but guess where I ended up, on the B team.

As my heart grew for the love of volleyball, I took my talents to harder competition, Great Lakes at the end of my sixth-grade season. This is a very well-known team and they are very superior at volleyball. That was one of the scariest tryouts I have ever attended because there were over three hundred girls trying out for the volleyball team! The first thing everyone was tested on was "hitting". Every girl got in a line and tried their best to hit the ball over the net. Well, I was still in sixth grade at the time along with many other girls and most of us were all still fairly short. I was the next girl in line to hit, I had butterflies in my stomach like no other. I walked up to the ten-foot line and did my approach. Boom! The ball goes screaming over the net! I never knew I had such great power in my arm. Next up in line was the girl behind me her name was Megan, she was also short. Megan goes up to the line and swung at the ball but missed. The girls in the gym were laughing at her because the ball went under the net instead of going over. Suddenly