Personal Narrative Essay: The Career Ending Play

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The Career Ending Play

I grew up playing basketball just about my whole life I really never found a sport that I considered more fun than basketball. Soccer was pretty close, but it was still for sure my second best option. I played basketball every chance I got when I was growing up I had my own basketball hop and everything. My friends would come over all the time and we would be out there all day just playing ball. Once I started sixth grade that’s when I started to take the sport more seriously, because that’s when you can start trying out for the school team and the sport becomes more serious, because not everybody makes the team so you had to of earned the spot on the team which took time and effort to get there. I was excited because
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I continued to play basketball all through middle school our team overall was a pretty good team we only lost a few of ours games during both years. When high school started that’s when the tables really turned for the sport when I thought they took it really serious in middle school then you wouldn’t believe how serious they made it seem in high school. The coaches were really hard on us we had to maintain our grades and they made sure we behaved in the classroom too. It wasn’t only that, talk about a lot of hard work being put into practice. We had to give it a hundred and ten percent each and every practice just perfecting everything and if we weren’t we would be heading straight to the line and continuing to run to the point where you can no longer feel your legs at all. Then after that point we would go straight back into what we were doing as if we weren’t just running and everything would remain at a very high tempo when we were already all so exhausted. The coaches did everything they did to only prepare us for the games to make sure that we were ready for anything that might be thrown at us. We put in so much hard work to get where we got as a team together the first two years of high school we made it to districts then lost

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