Personal Narrative: My First Basketball Team

Soon as I got off the bus, I rushed into my house, threw my book bag and jacket off onto the floor and ran to my room to get dressed for my game. When I finished getting dressed, my teammates and I went over to my friend Josiah’s house and hung out for a little before the game. We went out to eat, played, joked and even played a little pick-up game on his hoop in front of his house. As we left to go to the game, inside the van I started to get more excited and more nervous. I plug in my headphones to block out the noise and to get hyped up for the game that we would be playing in just one more hour. When we arrive at Boo Williams Sport Complex, where we were going to be playing at, I saw a variety of teams playing and there were so many different basketball courts.Watching how good these teams were made me think about how good the teams we were going to be playing. After I got to thinking about it, I was extremely nervous to the point where I thought I was going to throw up. The gym smelled like a bunch of basketballs and sweat, it smelled very bad. As we walk to our court to warm up I finally get to see the team that we were playing, at first sight they didn’t look too good. After warming up, my coach calls the starting lineup and calls my name for it. At tip-off I got more and more confident the more I touched the ball. Only about three minutes in I shoot my first three pointer and it goes in. As the game comes to the end my coach names me the MVP and I finished the game with nine points and no turnovers, we beat the opposing team 37 to 21. Our jovial game ended as a big

The day was October 8th, 2014. I hardly played. One school day, my 5th teacher, Ms. Smit said, “flyers for the basketball team on the table” ordinarily I took one. Kids from 4th, 5th, and 6th grade came to try out for the team. After tryouts, a paper next to the nurse's office was hung up. The paper sheet named those who had made the team. Surprisingly, I made the team, most likely from my height. I felt like I shouldn’t have made the team. At the time, I barely started to play basketball. I went to the practices at school and tried to make myself a little bit better, since a tournament was about to begin in a few weeks.

Basketball became a place where I could exhibit my talent and it has been so for the past 7 years. Each time I play a match, I set a target for myself to be the top scorer of that game. I only settled for the best. The feeling of a 3 point shot swishing into the net and blocking a shot from my opponent left me feeling immensely satisfied and cool.

Eventually, the tryouts came, and that was the best I’ve ever played baseball before. I threw and caught the ball better than ever. “I have watched all of you

We had basketball tryouts on october 31st and i was doggin them folks on the court they couldn’t handle me and i was just a little 9th grader and they were all 11th and 12th graders they must have felt bad but i know they didn’t because i used to play against them all the time in practice so they already knew what it was. I was 6’3 and JJ was 6’4 by the time we were 9th graders and we made varsity when we picked our jerseys i picked my dads old number because i always wanted to be different from him but htis year i had to honor him by wearing his number the number is 1. We had our first practice and i kinda started to tear up a little bit because i know my dad would be proud of the man i became and the ball player i became he always said i will be better than he ever was just because of the passion i had for the game and the little smile i had every time a ball was in my hands. Practices kept going on and on and me and JJ earned the starting spots on the team we were getting very popular amongst the student body. The first game came up and as always me and JJ weren’t scared we were ecstatic to play against better competition and show the world what we can really

It was the very first game of the season, Montessori, but I had no clue how good they were or what they looked like, I was so nervous I could barely eat that day. I was hoping we weren’t going to be thrown to the wolves. Then, that fateful moment came, we were all dressed out in our jerseys waiting for the girls game to end. Then, I heard that last game buzzer go off, I can still remember the sound of everyone smacking the bar above the door as we ran out onto the gym floor. As we were all getting into positions I look back and see the tallest guy is 5’6. I was so relieved that everyone wasn’t going to get murdered that day. That game I didn’t start but about two minutes in coach took all the starters out and put in all the second string. I can still remember when Nate Paul ran to the other side of the court and almost scored for the other team. That game was probably the one game I will always remember because I scored so many points in the paint, got around ten rebounds, and blocked their whole team. I was so hyped up that my heart was going a million miles an hour. I can still remember fighting over this kid for jump ball that when I ripped it I slung him across the court and almost got a technical foul. That game was the highlight of my season because I got in for almost the whole game. I really thought I was the man. I was taking their cookies left and right

Finally, the day had come; my mother knew what my fate was. The anticipation was killing me, as my mother presented me the information in the slowest way possible. Astonishingly, I had made the team. I was officially on my CYO A Basketball team. My heart began to race one thousand miles per hour.

Even though it was a struggle for me to even go to practice everyday, I still pushed through and I made the best of every single situation. When game day came, and it was time to play, all I could think about was the feeling I would get when the ball hit my hand. Many people don’t understand what it feels like. It feels like you found a missing puzzle from your life, which you didn't even know was missing. It’s like every worry you ever had, big or small, is gone. For that split second that the ball touches your hand, nothing else matters. It’s just you, the ball, and the court.

Then we all got back out on the floor knowing we would have to work fast and believe in one another. My best friend took the ball out-of-bounds, she passed it to our point guard, and then our point guard sprinted to half court. Okay, you can do this...just believe. With three seconds on the clock she passed the ball to me on the base-line three-point spot. The ball

My first basketball game at Hillcrest was my greatest accomplishments when I moved schools. It was a chilly fall night that I had been excited for for a while. I walked into the gym when the aroma of popcorn and hotdogs filled my senses. I was anxious with excitement because I had never played for another school before, it was a very nice change. All the players were in the locker room just a few minutes before the game. We had our pre-game prayer and then we were ready to play. I started for the first time that I could remember. I had the first field goal of the season which absolutely took my breath away. I got the ball on the block and shot it. I watched in slow motion as it went in the goal. In the end, it was a basketball game that I

After tryouts the coach brought us all over 1 by 1 and told us if we made the team. My heart was pumping while i waited for him to call me over. He yelled my name and I ran over, I had made the team. After the news I was determined to greatly improve my skills throughout the season. Each practice was hard and the games were much more intense than my previous years. The warm ups were all thought out and made us really get our shooting and passing on point. Then the national anthem was played and it really gets you in a great game mindset. After my first game on varsity I realized how much better everyone

So that morning when we woke up we had to play at 7am so went an ate at 6am. we went down stairs for breakfast ate and went to put on our warm ups, we loaded the bus and made it to the school. Once we had arrived to the school the team that we were playing was on the floor so we rode the elevator to there second balcony and started to take notes on the team. So i was taking notes on the front row player mainly the middle blocker, so when it got to the second half of the team we were playing we walked to the locker room and started conversing about what did we see about the other team and what could we use as a advantage.

As we got to the locker room the musk of the locker room began to fill my nose to the brim. Hard work and victory smelt like moldy chinese food left out in the heat. As I started to slide out of my sweaty gear, soaked to its core, surrounded by my exhausted, ecstatic teammates I could feel the fear starting to creep in. I continued to strip down as some of the guys began to hop into the showers.

Finally, the day of the big Cavs tryout came. the night before I didn’t get any sleep the night before I was so nervous. Around 6 o'clock, I got in the big white Volvo and my mom and I drove off to pick up Drake and Shannon on our way to JCCC, where tryouts were being held. After what felt like hours we finally arrived at JCCC. Drake and I got our bags from out of the trunk and walked down the grass hill to the gigantic turf field.

One rainy night in November, I arrived to the church gym for my first basketball practice of the season. As I walked in the doors creaked and you could smell the gym floor. As I already heard the basketballs hitting the ground, bouncing up and down. My friends Brittany and Destiny walked in right behind me through the door. That was when we realized we were the only girls surrounded by all guys. As practice came to a start we began to run, it felt like we were never going to stop. Up and down the court as we ran suicides, you could hear the squeaking of shoes as we went from the next line back and then on to the next. Before we started scrimmaging, the two captains were boys. Brittany, Destiny, and I stood in amazement as we were the last three standing there. You could see by their expressions they didn’t want any of us on either team.