Tournament

started to stop copying what she said I learned to start thinking for myself and saying what I believe. This past summer I qualified to attend the national speech tournament by competing in a local district tournament in Wyoming. Before attending the district tournament, my coach made it seem like it was the paramount of all tournaments. In the weeks leading up to it, we had practiced every day after school, spending nearly four to five hours per day doing…

Although it was our first season so we know we would learn and develop and eventually would win a game. Soon we would figure out if we were adequate enough to in Aberdeen, South Dakota where my team had a tournament. It was my team's first out of town tournament, and also my first out of town tournament. I recall we left from school in the afternoon and me and my friend Joe were carpooling there, it was my first time going to Aberdeen. Along the way we stopped…

Last year, I went to my first disc golf tournament ever at White Clay State Park in Newark, Delaware. I frantically practiced for about three weeks before. I started to work on different throws that would help me on some of the harder holes. There are many different throwing techniques, but I throw fore hand, thumbers, and backhand. I learned a different stance and grip for each. At the tournament, I came upon a hole that I needed to use all three throwing styles in order to get a reasonable…

For my non-verbal communication activity, I decided to go to the Ethiopian soccer championship tournament this year that took place last weekend in the University of Maryland, hosted by the Ethiopian Soccer Federation in North America (ESFNA). This was a unique non-verbal experience both in the sense that it was a sports event (rather than the conventional idea of a performance or art showcase) and also due to the fact that it was a foreign-based event hosted in the United States. The target…

Once in a Lifetime Opportunity First, we got on the bus to Quebec City, Quebec to go to the Quebec Peewee Hockey Tournament. It was a struggle for me because I had a broken leg at the time. Even though I had a broken leg, I was still so excited to travel to this historic town to watch the game I love. It was a long bus drive to the city, so during the drive I occupied my time with reading, sleeping, and watching movies for the most part. I was having a lot of fun on the bus with my…

It was Christmas night and I had still not packed a single item of clothing into my suitcase. Instead, I was too excited about all of my new gifts I received and anxious about my KSA Holiday Basketball Tournament in Orlando, Florida. Finally, I returned home from all of my Christmas festivities and began to unpack all of my fresh clothing and repack all of the items into my suitcase. My house was like the mall on Black Friday, my parents and I were running around frantically trying to remember…

I was just playing my Thursday golf tournament, when Molly the mole arrived, totally exhausted. "You have to come right away, Oliver!" she said breathlessly. But I wanted to finish my game. What could be so important? "You have to see for yourself. It's very exciting!" Well, I was going to lose the game anyway, so I had a good excuse to stop early. After we left the golf course, Molly explained that, while digging a new tunnel, she suddenly had broken through a wall and had fallen into a…

many years of training and made sure that their fighting skills were always in top shape. One of the main ways that they trained was through tournaments. These tournaments were war games for knights so they could keep their swordsmanship and horsemanship in top shape. Rich nobles sponsored the tournaments and provided prizes for the winners. The tournament was held on a field close to the noble who was sponsoring it. However, because the knights only went to battle for a total of a little more…

and is expanding more and more each year. This basketball tournament was set up to draw more attention to the sport The founder of the NCAA tournament, James Naismith, probably did not expect it to take off like it did, into what it is today. The history of the tournament goes back decades, and time after time draws the attention of more and more people. As the tournament grew, so did technology. Technology began to take over and the tournament started to turn more into a business than just a…

wrestling at big tournaments. The big crowds and big brackets made my stomach turn. I was scared to lose and disappoint my Dad. I never really has a lot of success as wrestler in elementary school. The first time I wrestled in a national tournament I was in fourth grade and it was in Tulsa Oklahoma. The competition was very fierce, I had never experienced any thing like this. It was nothing like wrestling in small northwest Iowa. I didn't even win a single match in that tournament. I was star…