Narrative Essay About Sports Family

Coming from a huge sports family, I always found myself watching some sort of game, whether it be a football game on a normal Sunday afternoon, or a football game at a big family gathering like Thanksgiving or Christmas. This has shaped me into a sports enthusiast, just like the rest of my family. When I was younger I could always be found watching baseball with my dad, playing in the backyard with my brother, or playing with my friends through the recreation department and the school teams. My parents once told me that by the time I was four years old, I knew the entire starting lineup for the Red Sox, and who everyone was - that has not changed since that day. I fell in love with the game ever since I was young. I made the decision to start playing T-Ball when I was five and I haven't stopped since the year 2005. From that point on, hours on …show more content…
Come sixth grade, I knew that I wanted to continue playing softball at a higher, more competitive level, so I tried out for the Maine Thunder travel team. At that point, I had only played Little League softball, and did not have some of the qualifications that the other girls had, so I did not make the team. Instead of playing with that team, I found another, and knew that a goal of mine was to make a Maine Thunder team at some point in my life. Over the course of the next two years, I worked harder than I ever had before with my mind set on making this team. There were endless amounts of pitching lessons, and hitting lessons, and clinics or camps both near home and as far as western Massachusetts all with drills that worked me