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The sweat flowed down my face onto the gleaming wooden floor. My hands on my knees, I was breathing heavily after our second game was over. I was at Southwestern High school playing in a life-changing basketball tournament. My teammates Cooper, Carson, Blair, and Clay were extremely exhausted after the first two games of the day. We had won all our games so far, but now we have to play the number one team in Kentucky this was fifty five and one. They had allstars on their team the absolute best…

Charles Barkley’s hands wrapped around my shoulders. My head barely went to his armpit. The 6’6”, 250 pounder, NBA legend towered over me. We were located in the hotel lobby in Birmingham, Alabama, I was there to compete in the National Speech and Debate Tournament, he was there for fun. “That’s a good skill to have,” he said. “ To be able to communicate effectively and debate.” Is it? I have come to the conclusion, as I have contemplated this one simple question the past year , that the single…

When first asked about the interaction between leader characteristics, follower characteristics and situational factors, I immediately thought about the popular movie drumline. This movie involved a character that is a drummer(Devon) a leader of the drumline(Sean) and the band director (Dr. Lee). The drummer is very talented and is given a full ride scholarship to college as a result. The band director is “old school” and set in his ways, and has a good follower in the leader of his drumline,…

Jason talks about winning his own ESPY, he states, “Winning an ESPY wasn’t as cool as winning the sectionals, Jason allowed after the moment had sunk in, but it was pretty cool” (227). Jason cherishes winning sectionals with his team over being on national television accepting an ESPY, not many other kids would probably say that. In that moment, Jason stays loyal to his team and does not care about anything other than winning sectionals, which shows he is humble. Through reading the…

Have you ever been torn between something you love and something that you are good at? This past week, I have been able to finish reading John L. Parker’s novel Racing the Rain. In this novel, Quenton is a high school age boy that is growing up in Florida. He has a very difficult choice to make between his love for basketball and running track. He also has a friend, Trapper Nelson, that many people do not trust because of an incident that he was not is not his fault. Because of Quenton’s many…

That was embarrassing I love the game of basketball, even when I score in the other team’s basket. In my defense, I was only six years old and it was my first time being on a basketball team. Me and my older brother Houston were on the same team, and at the time we were losing by seven or eight points and there was hardly any time left in the game, maybe a second or two. I was always the smallest kid on the court so I played point guard, which meant that I was the one that would receive the…

William G. Morgan created the game of volleyball, originally called “mintonette”, in 1859. Four years earlier, one of his friends invented the game of basketball. However, Morgan saw the need for a game that did not require a fast pace as basketball did. He wanted a game that the average person would be able to enjoy. The game he created was a combination of baseball, basketball, tennis and handball. The first to play volleyball was a group of workers from the Holyoke, Massachusetts YMCA. They…

championship, and was named Pennsylvania Basketball Player of the year. The wins and title brought a lot of attention to Kobe Bryant, especially by college recruiters. But he knew he wanted to play basketball and he knew he was good so he hired an agent while he was in high school and tried to get a spot in the NBA. The Charlotte Hornets…

The activity that I desired to participate in was basketball. Basketball is a very energizing sport that can be played both indoors and outdoors against two opposing teams (Podmenik, Leskošek & Erčulj, 2012). The purpose of this sport is to shoot the basketball into the opposing team’s net without letting the other team “steal” the ball (Podmenik et al., 2012). Basketball is a sport that not only increases ones physical fitness, but also demonstrates how to be a team player and build a positive…

READ THE SUMMARIES YOU WROTE ON TUESDAY, USE THAT INFORMATION TO WRITE A FOURTH PARAGRAPH ESSAY. 1ST PARAGRAPH - INTRODUCTION (INTERESTING) & STATING THE NAME OF YOUR HERO AND REASON WHY HE/SHE IS YOUR HERO. Not everyone thinks of athletes as heroes. People think more about the money they make and the games they win. not many people think of there lives outside of the sport they play. The athlete who we consider a hero is Stephen Curry. He is known for all of his amazing skills on the basketball…