My Life Lesson: Bend Middle School Football

Ever since I was little I loved playing sports. My mom introduced me to to basketball at a young age. I played GLYBA for a couple of years, and then in fourth grade I joined a travel basketball team, called a the Gull Lake Blue Devils. When I was in second grade I played little league baseball. I played little league for many years, till I was in sixth grade. I tried out for the Michigan Rebels, and I made the team.

I was constantly looked down on, as through the practices, varsity players continuously knock me down and run me over. One varsity player named Jordan Zorbas hit me so hard I felt like a crash test dummy. Later in practices, the varsity roster was taped to the locker-room’s wall. I couldn’t place my name on the list, meaning that I was on the freshman team. I remember thinking,“ Why couldn’t I make it, “ but deep down I knew why. I began practicing with the freshman team at linebacker. September 7th we had our first game against Ida Baker high school. I remember making the first tackle of the game, with me wrapping the running back and stripping the ball from his meaty hands. Although I started the whole game, I was not satisfied with my performance and felt that I should’ve done

Currently I am in cross country, basketball, and track, but I have done many other sports in the past. I joined the cross country team in 8th grade in hopes of finding a new passion. I fell in love with running and decided to join the track team that same year. Basketball is a different story; I joined in 3rd grade just because my parents signed me up as most sports go when you're younger, and I struggled greatly with learning and understanding the game. I spent long summers training in my yard trying to get better. This determination helped me significantly when it became time for tryouts, as I ended up making the higher team. To this day I still have a lot of determination when it comes to sports and most things in

In my own life, a motto that has stuck with me is, you only fail if you do not try.

It was because of that one practice I started to see what I was doing wrong. The relationship I had with a majority of the team wasn’t a coach to player relationship it was like a friendship. The team couldn’t take me serious because to them I wasn’t taking coaching serious. After that day I started to make the kids run more when they weren’t listening or talking while someone else was talking. When the second season started in the fall I was harder on myself to remember to keep the kids at an arm’s length, after a while I saw a change in how the kids started to treat me. They finally began to see me as one of their coaches and not a friend. They would come to me for help and some wanted to meet with me before or after practice for a one on one lessons. Every now and then I would stay after if it was ok with the parents or if they could make it thirty minutes before practice. Everything I tried to help them with showed up in the games

We all have some type of sports story growing up, either you were playing or just watching, you have some story to tell. I have been playing sports ever since I can remember, I started when I was little and then I just never stopped. I played basketball, volleyball, and my favorite sport softball until sadly something happen. Softball had always been my sport and I was planning on playing college ball but the winter of my sophomore year of high school that all stopped.

Seventh grade I played in the gym only but every time a coach looked I played my best if I had the ball. When it came to tryouts I tried my best, but when the results were posted I didn’t make it. But a after lunch 3 on 3 tournament was about to happen and I was put on a team a very bad team to add that. I did not care because for the first time in a while now I get to play semi for real. I was happy once again

We decided to pass the ball around to help kill time. I saw many familiar faces many of the girls I grew up playing with on rec leagues were going to tryout. At exactly 5:30 sharp the tryouts commenced. We started with a simple 3 lap jog or so it sounded. At the pace the older girls were taking those three laps they might as well have called it a three lap sprint. After the worst three laps of my life I was drenched in sweat and breathing as heavily as a dog after it chases a squirrel. After we got past the sprinting and stamina part I began to show what I could really do. I tried my hardest on every drill that they had us do so I could ensure myself a spot on the team. After that there was still one day of tryouts that would be the following day. The next day we did mostly the same stuff we had done the day before but you could feel that everyone was trying their best to impress the coaches that were judging us. As the tryouts came to a close I hoped that had done just enough to catch the eye of one of the judges. After the second day of tryouts the coordinators told us that know who did and didn't make the

My freshman and sophomore year of high school I went to Liberty where I decided I was going to try out for the wrestling team, from there on I only lost eleven matches out of sixty one matches I would end up winning districts both years. Our wrestling team had head coaches that had a culture of winning and competing, as well as having State Champions wrestlers who truly loved wrestling. Then junior year came and I was forced to change schools to attend Independence where I had no one to practice with, plus having a brand new head coach, which had been given only three wrestlers and the rest students that have never wrestled before causing limits on the amount of wrestling concepts that are learned so in result practice ends up being a

This is why you should never give up on anything you do. You always try your hardest so you can make a good life better. This is why i believe you should never give on anything you do because if don't you could be washing dishes at McDonald's.if you try you could making it into the MLB,NFL,NHL or maybe a scientist at NASA. Like example you could be getting getting all A’s in college to be a NASA scientist and you have one bad day and an F on an assignment and you just give up next thing you know your a

I tried out for it in school many times but never seemed to be good enough to make the team. I knew about the other sports but never gave them much thought at the time until one of my friends was trying out for tennis and told me to try out also. I really wanted to tryout but forgot about it that week and completely missed them. I went back to the coach later that week and asked if I could still tryout since I

I'm not a big sports guy, but in 7th grade I tried out for football. I figured it would be lots of fun sense a lot of my friends played on the team. At first it was

The second season came around and after three days of tryouts, I was named captain for the Junior Varsity team. I was proud of myself and so was the coach with my improvement. Midway through the season, I was moved up to Varsity. It wasn't a big deal for some, but to me it felt like passing your driver's test or getting an A on a project. I felt proud of my accomplishment and I had a new sense of determination to get better. After losing the first round playoff game, I wanted to get even better so I worked hard during the off season day in and day out. Before I knew it, the season was on my doorstep, knocking. We started off rough, losing our first 5 games. I saw that everyone on the team was slowly giving up. We had a team meeting and I gave a speech to motivate the team, which helped.We won the next game. Our confidence went up, but then we lost the next game. For some reason, though, no one seemed to be bothered. We went on a 4 game winning streak after. We made it the playoffs, but we lost in the first around again. After the game, I gave another speech on getting better as a team and holding our heads up high. After the season ended, I noticed coaches were starting to scout

Failure is something that we cannot go through life without experiencing. The best thing about failure is that failure can be used as a great learning experience to improve upon things in our lives and career. Using failure as a learning tool is dependent upon the person and how they view it as well as how they use it. Failure is a matter of perspective and the lessons in failure are important aspects towards growth and development. If we did not experience failure there wouldn’t be opportunities for learning. Failure can teach us about ourselves as well as provide an understanding for our

Failure often times leads a person to feel helpless, disappointed and depressed. However,one should not allow this to set them back in trying to achieve the ultimate aim one has set out to do. Failure in the beginning can often be a powerful incentive to reassess one’s position in wanting to achieve the particular aims; to analyse whether the purpose is worth the trouble the person has to undergo and the whether the obstacles are surmountable.