Championship

the element of gymnastics in the Olympics as well. Third, Fincher states that the Olympic rules will be less straightforward in Tokyo than they were in Rio. She explained that “The gold, silver and bronze medal teams from the 2018 World Championships will earn team berths (with four members) to the Olympics”…

knew the girl. Irene Hickson was born in Chattanooga Tennessee 8/14/19. An all-around athlete, in the mid-1930s she pitched and caught for semi-professional softball teams. Hickson hit 25 home runs in 1939 and also formed part of several State Championship teams. Beside baseball she was also a girl boxer, and the only one in Chattanooga! Did field and track events and won everyone. Coming from a low-income family, she found a part-time job as a spinning doffer at a yarn processing company. Her…

In the summer of 2014 at a horse show located in Stittsville Ontario called Fiddlers green. After showing all day and being exhausted, tired, and worn out, my show team and I found out that day we had qualified for trillium championships, this is a horse back riding competition in eastern Ontario. The show team from the barn I rode at in Braeside Ontario, consisted of my sister, a friend named Stephanie, myself, and are coach Julie. I remember feeling overwhelmed with excitement and joy, as…

Because it was a championship game and it was a very important game as we all know. So its the next day and the game has started but Tristan’s team is noticing these guys are a little better than what they are used to playing they move the ball well and have very good shooter…

Ten seconds left in the championship game, Hannahville inbounds the ball, and I steal it. Three, two, one, I have a wide open layup, and I choke. Preparing for the championship game was a struggle, physically and mentally. We all put in hard work, and were determined to win. Our basketball team hadn’t won a championship game since 1992. It was my senior year and my last shot at redemption against the defending champs. The whole season we only lost one game, we were projected to lose, and we…

the 1996 Olympics. Softball was introduced as an Olympic sport for women-only in the 1996 Summer Olympics. The U.S.A softball team has won 3 gold medals, and 1 silver, and 0 bronze, so all in total they have won 4 medals. The first world softball championship was a women's tournament which was in held Melbourne, Australia, in 1965.Softball became an official Olympic sport in 1996. History of softball Softball was invented in 1887, by a man named George…

Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas was born on December 31, 1995. When Gabby was little she used to have a lucky rock and before competing she would rub the rock three times onto her clothes. In addition, her coach calls Gabby “the flying squirrel” whenever she did the bars. She spend over 18,000 hours training for her first Olympics in 2012 which was taking place in London. As a result, she set a record for the most cartwheels performed at the same time. Gabby Douglas almost quit right before…

the worst about my dancing and came across as a very timid and shy, I earned an important boost of confidence from a judge. Showing a hint of confidence, I hoped to gain my second first at this competition to move up to the highest level, open championships. When I walked into the hall I recognized many of my competitors, but most of all, I recognized the adjudicators. One was a teacher that I dreamt taking classes…

“Stop wasting your time!” my father shouted at me. “This is the most useless thing you could be doing!” “Your room is a mess again!” my mother nagged, looking at the floor. It was littered with dozens of paper airplanes, paper scraps glued to the floor, and bits of tape. “Stop making those paper airplanes!” I’ve been an engineer since I was in first grade. My favorite hobby was folding paper airplanes with a friend and having daily competitions to see who could make the plane that flew the…

their up’s and down’s no matter what. The opposite of those fans are bandwagon fans. These fans like a team just because they are good. These fans have a tendency of changing favorite teams a lot, they just want to support a team that will win the championship. Lastly there are the fans that support a team but do not know anything about sports. Sports fans can be put into 3 categories die hards, bandwagons, and fans that do not even know sports. Die hard fans are the real fans that go to every…