Basketball Failure

Failures happen to everyone all of the time, what you do with the experience of those failures can vastly effect your life and your future success. The person who does not better themselves from failure can often wind up on a less successful path than someone who learns from failure and betters themselves from it. My failure to make the basketball team is one that I feel I have used as a positive tool to grow as a person and as a student.
During the first trimester I was not participating in a sport, this unused time was an opportunity for me to attend offseason basketball workouts. This opportunity was given to me from Greenhill, I was given a chance to attend offseason workouts to get in better shape for basketball season. These offseason workouts did not seem to have much significance to me because the coach would not be there and I believed I was talented enough to secure a roster spot on the JV basketball team. A sense of complacency with my basketball skill arose within myself and I rarely attended the offseason basketball workouts.
This sense of complacency was ultimately which led me not making the basketball team, also triggered a self evaluation within myself. Going home …show more content…
Without being cut from the basketball team it is possible that I would not make the baseball team and if I did I know I would not have given my maximum effort at all times. In Algebra I was noticing within myself that I was not exerting my maximum effort to better my mat ability, I was skipping online homework assignment and thinking nothing of it, now I have realized that if I want to achieve my goals in that class I must give my maximum effort at all times and complete all the homework assignments. Without being cut from the basketball team I may have never been able to realize my lack of effort in