Why Play Basketball

Ever since I was a child, I loved to play basketball. I started playing at a young age and looking back, I still wonder how I could even dribble a ball that was almost bigger than me. There was always a passion behind the sport. It didn’t matter if I was the MVP or I was a bench warmer, I still loved to play the game. As I grew older, it became apparent that the games we would be more competitive. In middle school, we had tryouts, which I wasn’t use to before. Then we were split into two teams: A Team and B Team. When you look at the teams and think, A Team has to stand for the best players, while B Team is the bad players. No, that is not what that means at all. It just means that the players on the A Team had a greater skill level of basketball than the players on the B Team. Therefore, as I entered high school, I knew I wanted to …show more content…
Although something was holding me back. I didn’t know any of these girls like I did in middle school, they all knew each other and I was the outsider. I only knew one other girl on the team that came from the same middle school as me. We both tried out and both made the Freshmen team. The only thing I could remember in that moment, was something a coach from my old school told my mom, which was, “I would never have what it takes to be on a real basketball team.” It all hurt, but I could never forgive what they said about me. My other coach from middle school, had decided to put me into the game. I was so excited my adrenaline was rushing. Every day at practice I had been working on my jump shots outside the paint, but close to the three pointer. The one thing my coach had said to me before I walked onto the court was, “If you take the shot, you’re benched the entire game.” At that moment I knew it was a risk I had to take. The only way to prove him