The Movie Hoosiers

When I was younger, basketball was all I wanted to play, it just looked like so much fun. In fifth grade I had my parents sign me up for CYB, then in sixth grade I tried out for middle school basketball and played all the way up until ninth grade. In middle school when I was in eighth grade I was awarded the captain position and that helped me build leadership and responsibility. All of the players especially the younger ones knew they could always come to me at any time if they needed anything or help with anything. High school basketball was a lot different than middle school. In middle school I was one of the star players so I played a lot but in high school that changed. I sat the bench a lot that taught me patience and understanding even

Hoosiers is a film about second chances. Redemption is given to a short tempered coach, who was issued a lifetime suspension by the NCAA for physically assaulting a player, and a former star player- turned town drunk. These two defeat their odds by taking a small town high school basketball team from being just 15 and 10, all the way to the state championship. In my review, I’ll attempt to explain how this coach matches up against Kouzes and Posner’s “Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.”

Fifteen years were spent with nothing but rubber and concrete as I would practice in my front yard with a nine foot hoop. This never fully prepared me for the actual sport. I never focused on any other attributes to the sport of basketball except for shooting. Not to mention it was only with my right hand. I have wanted to play on a team since seventh grade, but injuries limited my ability to do so, including a broken leg and a sprained knee. Therefore, I had to wait until my freshman year to participate. By the time freshman year had came, I was still oblivious to everything I did not know.

I have grown up playing basketball my entire life. When I was only three days old, I was being passed around in the stands at a basketball tournament while my parents coached my older sister. I have lived and breathed basketball for as long as I can remember.

When I was around age 5, I started playing basketball. Basketball was everything to me.I would go outside everyday and play until the sun went down. I started out in UPWARD until I got to the age limit, so I started school ball when I got old enough. School ball was very different from UPWARD. In school ball, you actually had to play defense and play hard, or else your teammates would get upset at you. We would have practices before and after school to improve on our skills for upcoming games. It was fun and challenging, but I enjoyed it because I was very athletic and active.

If you are good enough when you are in 2nd grade to 6th grade you can be asked to play on a travel basketball team. This is where you parents pay a lot of money to have you travel around and play with the best of the best. This is a really good time, because you sometimes play on college courts which just make you dream of one day playing college basketball and then maybe going into the NBA. I played on travel basketball, but then the next year I did not make the team. I was a good basketball player, but I was not aggressive enough. I continued to play rec ball even though I was very upset that I did not make the team again.

I became more and more interested with basketball as I started to understand the game more, starting at the age of 10. When I was 10, I was playing AA-U basketball. What I liked about basketball was that I got to hang out with my friends, and just playing the game in general. Basketball is a quick and challenging

In middle school, I played on the high school JV basketball team and was pulled up to Varsity in ninth grade. Basketball had always been a fairly large part of

As time went on at the I.C. I began to develop friends, a burning passion for basketball, and a love for my small school. Every Saturday from first grade to fourth grade I played basketball at our Saturday morning clinic, which happened to be coached by my Dad. Here I learned the fundamentals

My love for the game of basketball started when I was just a toddler. The dreams of being the next Michael Jordan swirled in my little brain. Starting to shoot hoops on a four foot goal and having my grand-dad show me how to shoot a basketball really sparked my interest. My grand-dad was an All-State Basketball Player in the state of Pennsylvania in the 1930s. He would sit and tell me stories of his playing days and this made me want to play that much more.

In the summer after 6th grade I was playing on an aau basketball team based out of Mason City. The team had tryouts and there were about 30 kids that tried out, so I knew that there would be two teams. I waited patiently for a couple of days and I learned that I made the elite team. I was really excited to travel around the midwest and play basketball all summer! I thought I was a really good player locally but never had seen the amount of other good players just in the midwest.

My dad and I pulled up to the basketball court. It was time to play. I had never played a real basketball game until this day. It was my first game and I was so excited. I was nervous too. I honestly didn’t know all the plays and moves that you have to do. We did not have enough practices for me to know what to do. But, I was ready.

The first sports I did was football.I was put on the C team and did not really try in football just showed up to practice and goofed around not really putting much effort into the sport. football season was over the next was basketball in the which you had to try out for. just like football I came in to try out goofing around not putting much effort into the sport and just hoping I would make the team . on that Friday the week of tryouts the list was posted so that the players could see who made the team, sadly my name was not up there but every single

I decided I was going to keep practicing and practicing until I became good enough to win. After school I would practice dribbling, free throws, and 3 pointers.

I had seen the basket ball games on T.V and some of my friends played. After a month of begging my mother to let me start playing she finally gave in.