Personal Narrative: Mr. Thompson Middle School Volleyball Team

Shaking with nervousness and butterflies in my stomach, I sat on the bus quietly trying to get in the zone and ready to play volleyball. Although this wasn’t just any ordinary game, this was the championships. My team has gone undefeated the whole season and to lose this game would crush us. As we approach Geneva North Middle School, where our match was held, I started to get even more nervous than before. My heart starts racing with anxiety and I started to get really sweaty, I tried to calm myself down, but it didn’t work. We start stretching and warming up, and suddenly Thompson Middle School volleyball team walks through the old creaky gym doors. My heart dropped and I felt more nervous than before. “Captains!” the ref shouted. Jordan and I jog over to the ref as well as two of Thompson’s players. “Introduce yourselves please” the ref requested “Hi, I’m Sammie” I said as I shook both of their hands. The ref explained all of the rules to us and since we were the home team, we got to call heads or tails.
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Mr. Hagan gave us a long pep talk and then the first match started. We lined up in the back of the court and ran to the net and said good luck to the other team. Since we had receive, I started in front row. The other team served and my team passed the ball to the setter, the setter set it to me, and I hit it! The other team missed the ball so we got the point. I was the next server. I got a seven point lead, but that disappeared quickly. My team couldn’t get their act together and kept shanking the ball into the crowd.I was starting to get frustrated, but we finally got a point. We were still in the lead, thankfully. Abby was up to serve and her serves are like a bullet. She got our lead back and we were doing great. The score was 14-8 and we were winning. Soon after, we won the first set! We all cheered and went over to the other side of the