“Way to go guys,” Derek said as some of his teammates came of the ice. They had just scored another goal in the game against Wisconsin and the score was now 2:1 with them winning. Yet he wasn’t in goal for this game either. Derek is one of the two goalies on the Lincoln Stars Hockey team and is going to Harvard next year to play hockey, and for school. The past summer he has been working really hard and studying as well as he possibly can so he does good next year at Harvard, which is going to be a tough school that will expect a lot from him. He has also been working really hard at practice ,so that he can show off on the ice and at school, but he isn’t getting lots of playing time on the ice which makes him worried because that's when the scouts and “important” people will be there and if they don't see him play they might think he isn't very good and not want him. …show more content…
The most recent game I went to was a lot of fun because we printed off pictures of his face and taped them to sticks and yelled at the top of our lungs trying to make his coaches see that half of my family was there to support him and that we wanted to see him play. Unfortunately they didn’t put him in but it was fun to watch his team out on the ice, also one of the referees got a bloody nose and had to take a break from the game which was pretty exciting, If your into that kind of stuff, because it happened during a fight between the two