Friday Night Games

Rather than looking at a difficult problem as an impossible hurdle, math has taught me to view it as a challenge, a game. A game that makes me turn to others through study groups and discussions, and what brought me, as a seven-year-old, to want to spend my birthday doing math with my friends at Kumon. But mostly I turn to myself. Whether it’s calculating the odds of a certain…

everything it throws at you. But there are still many things that people do not see that is needed to do, while playing travel ball Weekly schedule. Practice is mostly every, for my team they are every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and sometimes even Friday or Tuesday. They last from anywhere ton a hour an a half, to three and a half hours. And it's not like you can just miss, you have to have a really good excuse, like being sick, or a family emergency, or else you will get limited playing time.…

went to Hibbits to go buy me a pair of cleats, batting gloves, a glove, and a bat and a helmet that matches. I was so excited to start playing softball. Months passed, August came. That’s when the softball conditioning started for fall ball. A Friday night was our first conditioning. Everyone that signed up was there warming up and practicing in different age groups. The coaches that were there helping out and getting the kids information, they…

inseparable. I was about eight years old when he was a sophomore in high school and his football career was beginning to take off. I'll never forget the semi-final’s game in the dome that year. He was only a sophomore and he had over one hundred yards rushing and blocked two field goals. Through his high school career, he improved night and day and was the hardest worker on the field. By his senior year he was an all-state player and got a full ride scholarship to play football at Grand…

My lifetime goal is to become a High School Softball coach. I’ve been playing softball since my Freshman year. When going into Highschool I wanted to try at least one more sport then what I usually played which was Volleyball and Basketball. My freshman year I played all 3 sports. My sophomore year I got cut from the volleyball team so only played basketball and softball. The 2 years I’ve been playing softball I developed such a deep passion for it, so my junior year I dropped basketball to…

A friday night football game, the air is smoky from the cheers of the fans. The defense sets up like a brick wall. Jake is looking for someone to get open. His eyes were looking at the uprights. The wall crumbles as the linebacker 98 jumps over the line wrapping around Jake launching him to the ground like a sack of potatoes with a thud. He points at Jake and scream’s, “Whoo! Not in my house!” The buzzer screams… now it’s half time. A great day for football; damp so the cleats stick,…

early childhood, you realize how much enjoyment you had in the past, playing the sport you loved. For me, it was playing softball ever since I was a little girl and watching my sister play ball and longing to be just like her. I remember the long Friday nights that I thought would never end because of practice or the early Saturday mornings waking up at six o’clock to be at the field ready for warm up for another full day of softball. Looking back on those times, I reminisce but do not regret…

“Just a Game” “You ready for this” my dad said as we were sitting on the couch talking about the tournament that we are going to. I said “yes I am ready for this”. My dad said “You do know that your team gets ranked for the tournament and your team is the number one team in the tournament”. When he told me that I could not believe it. That means that we're are going to have a lot of people there watching you guys play. There will be people there recording the game and making mix tapes of you if…

It was a typical Friday, school was off and the temperature was at its highest. At times like this I would stay home to avoid the sun; however, my friends insisted that I must join them for a soccer game and so I did. We used a garage as our field and aligned a few cement bricks to form the goals which we then typically argue about how un-even the alignments were. The sun slowly faded away as night approached so I excused myself and retreated home fearing the consequences of being breaking…

as a football powerhouse, Patrick Henry teams before us won eight straight Northwest Ohio Athletic League championships from 2002 through 2009. Now as juniors, we knew that we could and had to do better for our senior year. Although we play the same game of football, a year can make multiple differences and teach life lessons. The biggest adjustment a team can make in one year involves changing a head coach, and that is exactly what the team did. Joe Kirkendall coached the football team in…