Personal Narrative: The Football Team

Last school year, as a junior, our football team was playing in the sectional championship game against Northwood. In the previous season we lost to the Northwood Panthers in the first round of the sectional tournament. Because of the previous attempt to beat a strong Northwood team I was feeling nervous, and almost even scared. During the beginning of the game it was a close battle and I could feel myself getting fatigued. I was unsure if I’d be able to play as hard as my team needed me to play for four full quarters. Our head coach, Coach Amstutz, told me, “We need you McCormick. It’s your time, get it done!”. “Okay, coach. Let’s do it.” I murmured through my mouthpiece. The first quarter came and went and it was now the second quarter. I remembered Amstutz’s short speech he gave me and realized I needed to bear down and help my team win a sectional championship. Northwood was a big, strong team, but despite that I held my own against them. I was running the ball well and throwing the ball well. In fact, we were winning half way through the second quarter. But the whole time I could tell that we as a team were slowing down, we were getting worn out and tired while Northwood, the team with more depth on their roster was stilling flying around, running fast, and playing physical. I was honestly in doubt. I knew we wouldn’t be …show more content…
Some were hurt, some were complaining, and some were even vomiting. I had never seen anything like this before. I talked with my quarterback coach, Abbs, telling him, “How are we expected to win this game when we are looking like this?” Coach Abbs replied with, “I know it seems close to impossible right now but you’re the leader. Rally your troops and they will follow you.” When Abbs told me that I didn’t know what to think of it. How was I supposed to get a group of close to 80 high school boys who all have minds of their own to follow a single person, in