Personal Narrative: The Sport Of Lacrosse

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.

Lacrosse is not just a sport nor a hobby; it is a way of life. Teammates are not just friends, they are family. To illustrate, lacrosse forms bonds just as strong as friendships and family. In my opinion, lacrosse is an encouraging, sublime sport that should be apart of everybody’s lives. First or all, I play lacrosse for many reasons. To begin, I am my team’s goalie, and will hopefully play goalie during my high school career. I played the field for two years (beginning in third grade), and goalie for three more, landing me here in my fifth year of lacrosse. I play to help my team, encourage them, tell them where an open player is, and most importantly, I play for my love of the sport and my teammates. Every year, I look forward to the season to

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

Ever since I was 8 years old, lacrosse has been my life. My teammates are my family, the field is my home, and the game is a huge part of who I am. When I was 12 and entering middle school I decided it was time to join a more serious team with other guys like me, that share my passion for the sport. I ended up joining an "alright" team with a bunch of "alright" players. After a few seasons with them, I realized I wasn't challenging myself and playing up to my potentional. My parents and I decided it was time for me to take it to the next level and join one of the most prestigiuos boys lacrosse travel teams on Long Island; the Long Island Outlaws.

Gold was close, but certain with under 1 minute left. On July 30, 2016 the Keystone West Lacrosse team had gone 2-0-0 at went to York PA and were hoping that even with some injuries they would still win the championship tomorrow.

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 quickly learned the worst part about switching positions, which is that everyone else already knew what to do and I was immensely behind in skill level. But, I still believed I could catch up to everyone else and play on the team. During the next few months of pre-season, I didn’t practice as much as I should have and only touched my lacrosse stick when we had team practices. I later learned that the problem with not practicing by yourself is that if you only practice when everyone else is then there is no way to surpass them. So although I was getting better at my new position, everyone else was too and the gap between us remained the

I was fortunate enough to get on a club lacrosse team to play in the summer season, a season I took off previously to coming to New Hampton my first year. I met a lot of good friends and throughout this experience my skills improved exceptionally. I made a pact with myself before the end of the school year that I needed to work out this summer and get stronger and faster to improve my athletic ability. So, I took it upon myself to go to the gym near my house and get a personal trainer. Throughout the whole summer working with my trainer, Drew, I completely revamped my game. My shot got faster, my stability got better, I got stronger and in general became a high quality lacrosse player. I got into this habit of keeping myself busy which is the best thing I’ve done for myself. I decided with between working out and playing for my club team, I should get a personal trainer for lacrosse as well. This way I could acquire skill in so many new areas that I couldn’t learn from a generic practice. I knew that doing a combination of all these things with a strong mindset, that my abilities could only get improve tremendously. All the things I did to refine my game has helped me further than what I could imagine in the beginning of the summer. I was unaware I still had potential to be the player I am

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."

I knew how the coach was going to be from watcjing my brother play seasons prior and he wasnt exactly what most would call a coach. He never played the sport of lacrosse so he only knew what he could dig up on the internet or find on tv. As an incoming freshman i was put on JV but unlike the majority of the JV players craddaling, catching, and throwing wasn’t a problem for me because of all the practice i had with my brother. I started on JV mainly at defensive midfield, i was just getting used to the game but i already knew it was for me. From what i can remember we didn’t do that bad my freshman year but the JV records/stats were never recorded so i cant give exact details. As the season progressed i started to think to myself maybe i wanted to pursue a career in lacrosse rather than football. However i was only a freshman with three more years still to go so my mind wasnt made up. Skipping ahead to after my freshman year going into my sophmore year of lacrosse we still remained with the same coaching staff who was given little to no respect by my fellow teammates. Since he didnt know much about lacrosse most people thought that they didnt have to abide by his rules and with him being extremely passive noting was ever done about the situation. But me ,as a sophmore, i was just extremely excited to have earned a spot on the varsity team. Although

I do not get surprised easily, but when I scored my first lacrosse goal, I was pretty shocked. I have considered myself as a decent lacrosse player; however, I did not score a single goal in my first season. Similar to my first season, my second season started out with me struggling get open and score goals. Fortunately, as the season progressed, I started to learn how to get open and get pass my defender. All of this came to fruition when I scored my first goal. It was the first quarter and our opponent had just turned the ball over. Our team was able to clear the ball past the midfield line, so I dropped into my designated position around ten feet away from the goal. Strikingly, the midfielder with the ball saw me open and passed it to me.

The screaming cheers from the girls on my team drowned out those from the stands, making it seem as if there was no one on the field but us. The lights were blindingly bright, shining down on the field from every direction, causing shadows to of the players to multiply around them. My coach paced back and forth, screaming orders and directions, while my teammates panted their lungs out. Just standing on the sidelines was like a breath of fresh air.

Growing up in Los Angeles there were not very many places to play hockey but I made best. It was then, at age five we lived in Park City, Utah for a year and there was no shortage of ice rinks. My mom tells people that I knew how to skate before I could walk, I’d like to believe it’s true. Next, I started to play for many club teams and could never find the right fit. I loved where I played but I wasn’t being challenged enough. My parents and I then made the decision to move me up in divisions. Then, the sport became much more challenging. My grandpa always told me that if I wasn’t challenged, I’m not doing it

This scandal didn’t only involve the lacrosse players and their families but it also involved the University and their reputation as a professional college. The University made the decision immediately when all the allegations came out, that the lacrosse team would be suspended for the first two games of the season, not necessarily because of the case as a whole, but because of the underage drinking and other events that went on at the party itself. Then, the case became very serious, so the University suspended the team for the whole season, not as punishment, but for the team’s overall safety(cite). Duke President Richard H. Brodhead, formed a council of advisers and four committees to examine the lacrosse team, the responses of the incident, as well as the campus culture (cite). Duke was very public with all of their