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    A couple days before poms annual summer camp. My coach gets that look in her eyes that everybody despises. I knew what was coming and I was totally terrified. She got out her notebook and pencil. We all got quiet because we are all hoping the same thing. My hands started to shake and I started sweating like a pig as she walked forward towards us. Coach walks straight to the blue basketball line. She stops right on the edge with the glimmer in her eye. With her flashy smile plastered against…

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    An accomplishment I had in my past was only have 5 loses on entire season of baseball last year. In years past we had been very bad. We worked our tails of every practice and during lifting we came back every year better than the last. Last year was so special because it was our last year together, we had been together for 5 years through thick and thin and in the past year we really got it together. I wasn't easy but we did it. It really shows when we slaughter teams who used to cream us,…

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    Hailey Kate Mosley Defense and Outfield. At age eight Hailey played soccer and those were two of her positions. She learned that even if she falls and makes mistakes she can get back up and try again. Hailey Kate Mosley was born on March 30, 2004. She lived in Belton until sixth grade, then moved to Raymore with her dad Chad and her sister Hannah that is seventeen. She was nicknamed Hay Hay and Hailey Bailey by friends and family and is still being called that. Hailey had multiple fun times in…

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    Pop Fisher In The Natural

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    In “The Natural,” the character Pop Fisher is the coach and thus “king” of the “knights,” the ball team that the main character of the book joins and plays on. Furthermore, throughout the book he is mentioned to have a sort of athlete’s foot on his hands and that the Knight’s field also seems similar to a wasteland that would correspond with Pop’s hands’ condition, very similar to the “Tale of the Fisher King.” Other than his condition and relevance to the tale mentioned before, he is also known…

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    Personal Narrative

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    It all started on a wednesday morning it was a good day at school there isn’t to much talk about. So when school ended i rode the bus home like usual I got dressed up and went to football practice. When I got there i got a strange feeling like if my gut was trying to tell me something so I ignored it and to the locker room and i just remembered that it was going to be the first day of full pads so i put on my pads nervously put them on and bamm I walked out and went to the practice field. So…

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    Sports are fun to play. I am a natural sportsperson. Whenever I go outside, I look for friends to play sporting games so I have a lot of practice with all sports. But, it I am given a choice, I would have to say that softball is my favorite sport. I like softball because it helps me stay active, it keeps me alert and it is fun. I love to get up early in the morning and play a game of softball. It gives me a chance to move about the field in every direction just by hitting that small yellow…

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    Leeman Bennett once said, “A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that God has given them. That requires someone who believes in himself or herself, who will make self-sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability” (“Running”). This is the mind set of every great softball player, and in order to have this mind set, players must acknowledge and appreciate the…

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    Personal Narrative: Scars

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    Scars During the summer of seventh grade I broke my hand. I was at the high school's soccer camp and we were playing a game called hunters and rabbits. One team was the hunters, and the other were the rabbits. I was a rabbit. The hunters would shoot balls at the rabbits as they ran across the field. When a rabbit got hit they would join the hunters. I had made it through the first few rounds, but now there were even more hunters, and I was losing confidence in myself. Sure enough as I ran across…

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    Boom, There I was ball in my hand with 0.5 seconds left on the clock. I dribble the ball once then pulled up for the three pointer swish nothing but net. The crowd goes crazy and everyone ran on the court. There undefended streak is over. The team named me as the player of the game. I had 23 points, five assist and 10 rebounds. The best game I ever had it was also a rival games to so the stands where full of people cheering on my schools basketball team. After the game coach named me player of…

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    There is simply something around a knocking down some pins rear way. The sights, sounds, and smells simply appear to affect a feeling of uncorrupt eagerness and energy in individuals of all ages, which is uplifted for kids. What's more, for the more seasoned, more experienced bowler, it just feels great to instruct a tyke about knocking down some pins for that first time. The main thing to consider before that youngster grabs a knocking down some pins ball, is the thing that to wear to the…

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