The Varsity

At the beginning of my junior year of McNeil High School I qualified to be on varsity and was put into the varsity soccer class for one month. I trained with the returning varsity players and learned from our varsity coach. However, at the term of that month I had received a statement that I did not have the capability to become a varsity player and would be moved down to junior varsity. This remains as one of the toughest setbacks that I have faced in my life. Due to this failure, I joined a…

participated in varsity athletics I was a member of my FFA chapter all four years of high school. I participated in many of the Leadership Development Events; I also actively showed market swine. The LDE events I was involved in included Ag Advocacy, and Public Relations. Throughout my time of participating in the LDE competitions I gained the knowledge and confidence that helped me grow as a student and as a person. While I was a member of FFA…

When I am not in school, and not with my friends, I am definitely doing something lacrosse oriented. Even before I began playing lacrosse, I was told by my bestfriend that lacrosse was referred to as “the creator’s game” by his coach. The first time I set foot on a lacrosse field was in 4th grade, and it is just as hard to take that foot off the field now, as it was the first day. My burning passion for the game only grows stronger the more I play. Lacrosse has also given me opportunities…

Ms. Huschilt, Thank you for your kind words about the how the tournament ran on Friday. We appreciate people who realize the amount of time Kyle and myself put into this tournament. I will gladly clear up some concerns you had with the tournament and hopefully explain why certain scenarios happened. First of, the culture we try to create and promote at the Richard Peddie Debate tournament is one of active thinking and development of general debate skills. It is not a culture of first place vs…

“ Should students participating in varsity sports be required to take physical education” due to it giving many statistics on how the body recovers and what is good for the body on terms of working out. This helps with the debate that students in varsity sports should not be required to take physical education if they are already getting the benefits from their own workout. With too much working out the body is not able to recover therefore, with a varsity sport and a physical education…

The idea to be athlete never interested me. I was couch potato that watched too many movies. Unfortunately, this led me to become overweight. That’s when I decided to try out for the only sports team in my middle school, basketball. Surprisingly I didn’t make the team. Later, in the year a soccer team was formed. I tried out for the team. I was selected for the team regardless that I didn’t know how to kick the ball in the right direction. Even though my team never won a game I knew that I…

the past two seasons, Northeast has been only one win away from the school record for wins in a season. Beating this record was a goal for the 2016 baseball season. A couple of goals for me personally were to earn a spot on the varsity team roster and start for the varsity team during the 2016 season. The 2015 season was very good and successful. Many good and experienced players returned for the 2016 season. Some key players that came back included Ketz Dondiego, Zach Parson, Zach Scott and…

he wanted me to be on his team next year. After we had hung the phone up, I knew that I had accomplished a goal that I had always wanted to accomplish. I called my big cousin to tell him the great news, and he told me that he knew I would make the varsity team one day. I had thanked God for being by my side, and letting me accomplish my goal. The next season came and we won that state championship against the number two team in the state. I was also named the player of the game, and player of…

because I pretty much just went over Middle school soccer. Freshman year was really hard. I didn’t make the varsity team, I was probably one of the suckiest player out of the whole team, and the division My high School was in was division five. My High School coach, coach Oliver was a whole lot more strict and more serious when it came to practices. Every practice the whole team JV and Varsity would run one mile before practice started to get the heart pumping and after the mile I would be one…

Last Shot at Winter Sports Winter sports are just beginning here at GHS. From varsity basketball to varsity winter track, students have been dedicated themselves toward having a successful season. Perhaps the most devoted players are the seniors, who have been working especially hard to leave Greenport with a good athletic legacy. Dribbling up and down the court, slam dunking their way to victory, the girls varsity basketball team have been a force to be reckon with. Between the teams group…