Personal Narrative: A Career As A Lacrosse Player

The heat bears down on me, as I feel my skin burning in the hot summer sun. Dust and dirt floats around the air and a thin layer of grime covers my entire body. Sweat drips around my goggles while adrenaline fills my body and my heart races. In the middle of nowhere in Virginia, I feel at home, I feel the turf under my cleats and the cool metal of the stick in my hands. As the timer ticks down, the buzzer rings, and the game begins. I look to my left and see my dad sitting on the sideline, ready to cheer as loud as possible. To my right I find my teammates, the most loyal group of friends I have, ecstatic about the potential of winning.

My accomplishment of making the varsity lacrosse team has given me a new understanding of myself. 11.34 My journey began during my freshman year when I was a member of the JV lacrosse team. At the end of the season, the coaching staff called up a select group of individuals from the JV team to play for the varsity team in the playoffs.17.65 Unfortunately, I was not one of the players afforded the opportunity. 11.14When I got home that day, I told myself that I would never let that happen again and that I would do everything in my power to make the varsity team the following year. 13.98 As a result, that summer I worked extremely hard to improve my stick skills with my travel team and went to various tournaments where I competed against kids who were much better than me.15.02 1)However, as the summer ended, it was football season and I had to put my lacrosse training on hold so that I could focus on football. 2)Midway through the football season, I unfortunately suffered my third concussion

While other students were out celebrating the first week of summer, the New Albany Girls Lacrosse team was practicing for one of the biggest moments in their lives. They were preparing to compete in the Division II Lacrosse State Championship Game on June 1st. The team had one week to ensure they knew their plays, calls and were general ready for one of the toughest games of the year. Among this team there were twenty-five girls, and within this group of girls there were only two goalies. These two goalies, Kathleen Schell and Grace Anthony, had to hold the team together. Kathleen was talking to Grace before the end of practice and told her “I am really nervous, because I don’t know who coach is going to throw out there first. Also, what if

I wake up grab my lacrosse stick, ball and head outside. Grab the net and started to shoot. I play of my state lacrosse team we have our first tournament this weekend and I don’t wanna be the reason that we lose. I was originally a D-pole for my city team but my coach for state thought otherwise. I could run the field in 20 seconds flat. At least that is what my coach said. I started out the day with a couple fakes and spin moves nothing hard just the kind of stuff you need to know when you want to start. My sister decides to come and play me in a 1v1 (me and my sister are competitive) I accept so we go to the plains across the street I bring the net along with us. I just school her badly 10:0 she challenged me at my own game 1st mistake.

A memory that is etched into my brain is when I was asked to come back and be on a national lacrosse team. This summer I went to try out for a national lacrosse team down in Ocean City. The team’s was named, “ Diamond National” and they were a pretty good national team. This is the first time I tried out for a national team and I thought I didn’t do my best at the tryouts. Even though I didn’t do my best I was still asked to come back.

I played different positions like outfield, 2nd base, and short stop. Each position, when i first started playing, I felt uncomfortable because I didn't know how to play it. I was confused as to why my coach put me at that position, but I knew it was because he wanted us to be exposed to other positions besides the normal ones we played. Despite the fact that I was a really shy person I felt okay trying 2nd base even though it was sort of a step up from just sitting in the outfield. My teammates helped out with anything they felt like I needed help with.

Im sure that plenty of people in this room and in this school play sports. One of the sports that I play is lacrosse. In lacrosse one of the most important parts of your equipment is your stick. I will explain how somebody going into the sport should decide how to make their stick.

Around March last year, lacrosse season was beginning to come around the corner. Everyone was getting prepared for the season with high expectations of winning another championship. For the returning seniors this was a huge deal for them, along with the rest of the team. Everything was in good shape until events unfolded and my spot on the team was a swinging player.

I glare at him "you dont fucking understand" I say, anger boiling inside me "You can go play in the NLL or you can go play in the NHL or in the NFL or in the NBA or any other professional sports. But the only options i have are play tennis, basketball, soccer, or golf. And i do know how to or have the disiere to play any of those sports. And even if i did i would still be drastically underpaid compared to you, so dont tell me to get a regular job."

HONK! The bus had halted with all of the lacrosse players in the back. I was waited anxiously to get off of the dirty bus.

“I believe that we will win! I believe that we will win! I believe that we will win! One! Two! Three! Gooooo Breakers!” I believe that those six words helped my lacrosse team win the championship game and motivate me to score my first goal of the season!

In my Junior year, my nickname on the lacrosse team was mom, for a variety of reasons, I drove a minivan and often found myself driving 8 of my teammates around, I gave advice to other players all the time, and I was the oldest person on the team.

Lacrosse is a sport that is consisted with a lacrosse stick, both genders can play (on their own team), and it has grown so much lately. Lacrosse at first was a men's sport, but transposed soon after to acquiesce both genders to play. Lacrosse is also one of the oldest sports created. Lacrosse, originally named Baggataway, originated from the Native Americans back in the 15th century and was played with a wooden stick with a small net on top, it was played up throughout Canada, but was really popular around the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic Seaboard, and the South of the U.S. Tribes such as the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin and even more played lacrosse. Lacrosse was at first a very cultural game within Folk Culture, but since it has gotten a lot

Lacrosse is an exciting and fast-paced sport with almost nonstop action from start to finish. The game is simple. Players move a ball down a field using sticks with nets on them. They score a goal by hurling the ball past the other team’s goalkeeper into an upright net. Lacrosse is played at all levels of athletics. There are professional, amateur, and school teams, and there are college scholarships for those who play it well.

Hockey has been my favorite sport for over 12 years. My dad played hockey when he was a kid, and inspired me to play the sport. When I was just three years old, it was my first time stepping on ice; I did not know what to expect, I had several pounds of pads on me, with a jersey to cover it all. At first, all of the heavy pads made me dislike the sport, but once I got on the ice, it all became worth it. Skating felt like a whole different universe. I had learned to walk only two or three years from my first time on the ice, and skating felt like even more fun.