College basketball

that I 've experienced, it 's hard to put those things into words. I look back to where I was a year ago, and it 's amazing how far I 've come. A year ago I had no idea where I was going to college, I began to question what I wanted to do with my life, and I forgot to enjoy life. My high school basketball career had just come to an end, I had the opportunity to watch our girls compete for a State Championship, I was a month and a half from graduating high school, and I was on my way to…

Sports Do you think basketball is fun? Basketball makes people get active. More kids can get exercise instead of playing on the Xboxone or PlayStation4. You need to have good skills to play. Like dribbling, shooting, passing, confidence and you need to be aggressive. You have to focus on hard skills development. Hard skills are acquired through intentional focus and repetition such as shooting. On the basketball court you must only have 5 players on the court. If a person makes 5…

and during his career. One lesson that is taught is “Perseverance”, and not to quit when you fail or times get tough. From the beginning, the description and details in the story about LeBron's perseverance. When he first started to play basketball, he was really good and he always said: “I want to be an NBA player”. There were so many people that supported him and made him believe he could make it. But, there were people saying “You're too small”, “You're not good enough”, and “ You're…

The Journey Clark, a point guard from Newport Harbor High is having his first experiences in college basketball. Clark got lucky enough to get a free ride to UCLA along with one of his best friends James, who was a center. Being a new college student all the work hit him fast and instantly he saw that he was going to have to work extremely hard to keep up his grades. James on the other hand was an excellent student he always had A,s. Clark was 6,3 and had very dark brown hair he was one…

bringing home a pro sports team championship to the city of Cleveland for the first time in 52 years. The city’s long suffering that had been endured for more than half a century was over. Ed Golden a longtime fan of the NBA and former Division I college basketball player had been following the Cleveland sports drought for years. He had been following the Cleveland…

Coach Carter Coach Ken Carter was a basketball player turned basketball coach who decided to take a job at Richmond, Ca. as the head basketball coach. When Mr. Carter acquired the job he was there to just teach basketball and when games. In the process of this he changed his players lives; he also instilled life-values in each of his players. Lessons like respect, teamwork,and that education is vitale these lessons took these players farther than they had ever imagined not them themselves but…

Benjamin Wilson, commonly known as Benji, was not only an all American basketball star, but also the greatest basketball player to ever rise out of Chicago. Playing for Simeon, he was named the top player in the country as a junior in the ‘83-’84 season. He carried the team to the state finals his junior year and won; claiming Simeon’s first Illinois championship but would never make it to the Professional league or even college basketball, his life greatly changed the city of Chicago in more…

I’ve played basketball for at least 10 years and it’s sculpted the person I am today. I’ve put in countless amount of dedication and effort needed to pursue this sport. To dedicate 10 years to something before knowing where it might take you is a life gamble , and I was willing to take the risk. Unfortunately my time as an athlete has come to a pause. It’s the biggest change my life has ever sent my way. Every athlete looks forward to their senior year, and look forward to playing on varsity.…

There aren’t too many stories of little Jewish boys navigating their way from the Big Apple to any level of basketball fame and fortune. Well, Yanni Hufnagel is the nice little Jewish lad who has managed to build himself into one of the most respected assistant basketball coaches on the NCAA major college level. Hufnagel started out with high aspirations to be a basketball player, but in spite of all his hard work and dedicated diligence, he was cut from his Scarsdale, New York high school…

Richmond High. After careful thinking and talking with his wife, he takes up the job in order to try to help the underprivileged individuals in the neighborhood improve themselves. His main goal was to lead and motivate his student-athletes on the basketball team. From the minute he takes over the team, he gives the athletes a contract that they can sign if they wish to play for the team, which only allows them to participate in games if they attend every class and maintain a C average. Another…