This team showed great adversity yesterday. Now I know this game should not have been as close as it was and that needs to be fixed. But for this young Buccaneers team to come out and surrender a two score lead and still overcome adversity is an impressive feat and shows growth with this Bucs team. So many times in the past, we have watched our Bucs slowly self destruct and lose big leads and never get them back. Yes the Bucs should have blown them out, yes the Bucs still suffer from the kicking blues (as of yesterday), yes the Bucs didn't get a sack against a lackluster Giants offensive lineman.…
The Journey to Team Louisiana Sweeping through the state tournament, on our way to the world series in Bluffton, South Carolina, until we run into the best team in the tournament. They put 10 runs on us in the 1st inning. All I can say is good thing it is double elimination. Waking up the next morning to a Bossier City, Louisiana was brutal.…
My personal motto is a quote from Mimfa A. Gibson: “Don’t expect mangoes when you plant papayas.” Through the turbulent and exhausting challenges presented in our everyday lives, it is easy for the correlation between preparation and achievement to become skewed. Current United States Army Ranger and member of the 101st Airborne division, Lieutenant Kyle Treece, helps me keep straight the path and live out my personal motto. By setting an example of discipline, determination, and fortitude, Lieutenant Treece inspires me to take advantage of every opportunity, and to focus my actions so that I may achieve my exact goals.…
Why were they so encouraging? Didn't we lose? The reason they were so proud of us was because they knew that we tried our hardest. As long as, as a team, you are trying your best, then you have really never lost. Now lets talk about the other end of the spectrum: success.…
Reaching a goal and the work it takes to get there can be a long, trying process. My goal is to make it to Nationals on the Nursery Landscape FFA team. I have competed on the Nursery Landscape team since I was a freshman. As a team of three freshmen and one sophomore, our main goal was to place as high we could as individuals which would help our team score. At State Convention, I wanted to place in the top twenty as an individual.…
During the sophomore year of highschool, my leadership skills affected our team with outstanding victories. It was 4 O'clock, 30 minutes from the beginning of our meet against Wheeling High School. My astronaut headphones screaming into my ears, impelling me to steal victory from the Wildcats. The clock struck the 6 and it was time to stand on top of the block . The Official Narrated “mister starter” then pressed his buzzer, and I was already halfway across the pool length.…
Last week’s rally was so exciting to experience as huskies we all brought ourselves together for Battle of the Bone. There were games, dances, and supporting each other. Huskies all came out and show their support to rally up the school so that it would show that we were going to beat Ayala. We had our amazing band team come and give us a great performance. Our dance team gave us a thrilling performance that everybody was thrilled by, and our cheerleaders made us proud to be a Husky.…
Rough Draft Topic Sentence Sitting on the bus with anticipation and my nerves are really shot, here i go on my way to the Elsberry cross country meet. I’m shaking on my way there, as we get closer to our destination i’m trying everything to calm my nerves. Laying down on my bag, i close my eyes and am soon sound asleep. Waking up with a sudden start to see one of my teammates telling me that we made it, i’m shocked and i force myself to get up to prepare for this run.…
NYLT stands for National Youth Leadership Training. This training is run through Boy Scouts and is a one week long camp. I did this high intensity camp last year and was the hardest thing I did in my life. The day before i left to go i was extremely nervous and was sick that 's how scared I was. For me to be eligible to go to this camp i had to lose 24 pounds in 4 weeks i did it but was extremely hard running multiple times a day and eating so little.…
There are several days in the year that most people look forward to all year long. After Christmas, Mother’s Day and my birthday, Opening Day of baseball season is the best day of the year. Normally, I get two opening days a year; the one that all baseball fans look forward to in April when their pro-team starts, and the one where I get a new batch of kids to who I am privileged to pass the love that I have for the game by being the Coach of my sons’ team. This year, I get to share another opening baseball day with over 50 thousand HCC students and countless alumni.…
What I was looking forward to doing my senior year, was leading my team as a senior to the best we could be. I was working harder than I ever had all winter long leading up to this. I had one goal that I did not see happen any of my four years there, which was getting to the state championship. There were a lot of things that had to go right for this to happen. The team had to be good, they had to work hard every day, they had to win districts, they had to win regional’s, and the most importantly the team had to get along great they have to be a family.…
The final bell goes off ending the learning and begins the strenuous practice. I enter the locker room ready to war. I put on my armor that consists of padded pants, cleats, should pads and finally my battle scarred helmet ready for a few more. I march out the the field with only my job in mind. As I step on the field I am all seriousness as the battle begins. '…
Personal Narrative I am in such disbelief of what has just happened, my mind is blank and I am frozen. Do you ever have moments that change the way you think about yourself? Well, I had one of those moments. It was in the summer of 2017, and it was my last softball game of the season. I woke up that morning ready to beat the Presque Isle Panthers, not knowing what was about to happen.…
So we prayed and the game started and we played nervously. My captain, Melissa dribbled down the court, looked to pass, and took the shot but missed it. Michelle also missed her fast-break lay up, and I missed my free throw. At the end of Quarter 2, it was like playing football because the scoreboard only shows 2 for Ipeka Tomang (my school) and 3 for Yadika. That indicates how much we are struggling the whole quarter never really score but a constant battle between getting and loosing the ball.…
My First Dance Competition The first time I performed at a dance competition was a very exciting and memorable moment for me. I was six years old and insanely nervous. Typically the nerves hit me while I wait in the wing of the stage for my name to be called, but this time it began the moment I woke up in the morning. I remember having to wake up at about six in the morning in order to have time to get ready and be at the convention center in Wichita when the doors opened at 7:30 a.m.…