Personal Narrative: Euclid Football Team

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The year was 2015 and I was new to the Euclid Football Team. I was a shy, quiet person and was also paranoid, but I don’t think anybody noticed my shyness and my little bit of weirdness. As I sat down in the little theater waiting for our new Head Coach, the atmosphere was electric, curious, and also pumped as we all waited. I was meeting new people including people I’ve known since my sophomore year. Some of them were cool, but some of them I didn’t like because I thought some of my new teammates were just sneaky but how should I know? I’m just now coming to the football team so I’m just assuming things. Five minutes later, our new Head Coach, Jeff Rotsky, was finally here. He was a middle-aged, Jewish-white man with a winning attitude and a lot of energy. The first time we met, was at the …show more content…
Anyway the day goes on and finally Coach Rotsky arrives in the weight room. “Alright everybody please sit down, For those people who don’t know me, I am Coach Rotsky I coached at Cleveland Heights and Maple Heights” He goes on about his past winnings and how he changed the culture of each team he coached but in the end he said “Were are going to change the

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