Varsity Team Scenarios

One summer’s day in 2014, I borrowed my neighbor’s lawn mower and met my teammates at the batting cage. I began mowing down the weeds, while they raked. Others restretched the netting back across the top of the cage. By the time the afternoon came we had a batting cage and a real sense of pride. From that day forward, we began practicing every day, year round. We talked baseball, walked baseball, lived and breathed the stuff. We shared our equipment and made do with what we had. We turned ourselves from a rag-tag bunch of misfits into a

interviewed, Coach Zamorski said “the girls worked hard and bonded well all year”. Seniors Sam Salvador and Alaina Murphy were “a crucial part to our team.” Their batting helped them win close games and the leadership they brought gave an example to follow for all players. The team preached to watch your body

The life of a young baseball player is a very enjoyable one. Baseball has always been my favorite sport, it requires the highest amount of concentration and mental strength. Physical strength is also required to be able to hit and throw the ball; these are all skills required that apparently my freshman year of highschool I did not posses. I had always believed that I had the necessary skills to play baseball and play it well. However, tryouts my freshman year proved me wrong.

My breakfast started to creep back up my throat as game time got closer and closer. I walked across the patch of grass behind home plate and was towered over by the 30 foot backstop with a huge net suspended from it. My bulging bag of equipment was beginning to make my shoulder hang. I walked down the steps into the cement dugout and placed my bag under the bench that spanned the entire length of the dugout. I sat down, laced up my cleats, and put my warm-up jacket on in preparation for batting practice. I stepped onto the grass surrounding the dugout to get the feeling of how wet the grass was. I dug my cleats into the grass and began my usual routine of taking certain practice swings as I gazed upon the press box in the wake of the backstop. Preceding the burn in my forearms, caused from the practice swings, I marched behind the dugout to the rows of batting cages to wait my turn in line. Pacing back and forth I knew I had to keep my nervousness to a minimum. I popped in a wad of Big League Chew and continued to

Are high school sports good for kids? Many people believe that athletic sports are good, but they ignore the fatal flaws of these activities. Youth and high school sports are harmful because athletes often get too caught up in winning and get hurt frequently, physical sports also take away from other extracurricular activities.

Purpose: to connect high school athletes with the colleges that will give them the best chnce to

The Vital Baseball organization was founded in early 2015 in the northern part of the state of Utah. The strategic plan of the founding managers was to build an organization that supports youth baseball at every age level. “First and foremost, strategic planning is a process” (Abraham, 2012, p. 1.7). This process is not to be taken lightly and the Vital

Clouds mugged the sun of light as the day progressed. Dusk filled the air on the baseball diamond where I would leave my legacy. Forth, was the championship game to be played, and the pressure of the starting pitcher, was not fazing me. In the zone, we said the Little League pledge. Jolts of excitement filled my muscles as I recited the piece that I know all too well. Warming up, I was controlled, and was ready to bring it. The game began with a bang. Strikeout after strikeout I fired, giving my all every single pitch. ‘BOOM’ went the glove after every pitch, whizzed right by the petrified batter. However, this was not much different for our team. Just two hits filled the board, I and my teammate Ian Keth. Scoring off of this was efficient,

Spanish Fork loves the coaches; some men in town have coached for years and years. Once a team of little ten-year- olds reenacted a scene from the Disney movie Angels in the Outfield. When the team only had six players, including a ten- year-old pitcher, they faced an opponent with a full team. But the pitcher, Derek Larsen, held them and the

The Varsity team lost to the Junior Varsity team because of their individualistic mindset. The coach of the Army Crew team admits to putting together the best crew athletes together on the Varsity team. As “Making Star Teams Out of Star Players” discusses, putting the best individuals together seems appropriate on paper, but often ignores the soft skills necessary to work together as a team. Because the coach focuses on the individual talents of the Varsity Crew team he creates an air of competitiveness within each member, instead of how they can work together. The goal of the team is not greater than that of the individual and no one wants to be the weakest link so they overcompensate their own skills. Every member of the Varsity crew team believes he is compensating for the other members and blames other members for the failure of the team, which shows a lack of team mentality and strong leadership. Through overcompensating, as stated in the case study, that throws off the balance of the boat because one member being off pace causes slower speeds. Also, through pitting the Varsity team against the Junior Varsity team it adds to the divisive culture within the whole Army Crew team.

“We are just seeing the ball really well,” Goione said. “We go to the plate looking to hit the ball hard and looking to find the barrell. We are not looking to take walks, but we will take it. We just want to get hits and just still doing our parts.”

It has built a strong brand equity that promotes good will in the community; help disadvantaged urban youth to transition from a negative environment to a positive and encouraging one. Their ultimate mission is to “use baseball and sports to change children’s lives.” They try to make a good balance between sport and education and use them as a formula and a critical ingredient to reinforce success and insure a bright future for this community. They convey a inspiring message that make the young adults beleive that they can be part of the Base organization and reach their goal if they are work ethic, perseverant, dedicated and highly

Group decision making is how SMU got their players. Boosters got together to find the top high school players to give them money to go to SMU to play football. Nine boosters got caught after former football players talked to the media former players like David Stanley, who got upset at the fact he got kicked off team and when he tried to get back on they denied him. So he went to media and told them SMU paid him to go play football. Once, that happened the NCAA told control and gave SMU the death

The bang of the head, the crack of the bone, the tear of a muscle, are all things that high school athletes put themselves at risks for. Every time a high school athlete steps foot on a field, rink, or court they put themself in a risky situation. Although the risk may be there, athletes achieve many valuable lessons throughout high school sports. The valuable lessons promote self-confidence, socialization and team spirit, as well as decreases stress. While playing sports, athletes are at excessive risks of being injured. Although high school athletes have a risk of being injured, the benefits of high school sports programs outweighs the physical risk because of its benefits to teenagers mental health, benefits to teenagers physical health,

. I think a team approach made it easier to cover all homecoming events. If we were to have done this as a singular project it would have been a lot harder to cover and gather information on all the events due to classes or prior commitments. Also doing the project as a group made it easier to gather different perspectives on homecoming and the different events it