PGC Basketball Camp

Topic A The summer of my junior year was spent living, breathing, and thinking basketball. In order to be as prepared as possible I attended the PGC basketball camp at St. Mary’s university. Before signing up I was a bit hesitant considering the fact that I had never attend a camp like that before and I had never been around people of different races. Though I was skeptical I gave my mom the go ahead to sign me up because I was going to do anything in my power to make the varsity squad. It was a 5 day 4 nights camp and we were staying in the campus’ dormitories. Since I was going alone I was going to stay with someone I had never met in my life for four whole nights. in all honesty I was pretty uncomfortable with that not only because I had never met the person but also because they could be a complete psychopath and I wouldn't know, but I got over it and went . The goal of the camp was to learn how to be the leader of the team. In order to do this the camp directors set up teams of 5 and had competitions throughout all 5 days. This was really fun at the start when everyone was shy and kept to themselves, but once people began to …show more content…
I’m not trying to brag but I was one of the more talented few in the camp so in order to get me to benefit the most that I can from it the camp director put me in a group full of not so talented players. So once the competitions started I grew very frustrated right off the bat. Fortunately the camp director was a great coach and spoke to me. He said “In order to be great you need to succeed in the little things.” one of the little things he mentioned to me was being a leader and taking control of the team. So I listened. I took control of the team that day and we actually won a few of competitions. All that everyone was talking about was the tournament on the last day, a straight up 5 on 5 games; it was for all the marbles and the elite title of the team of the