The Varsity

first time since the 2008-09 school year, EC is preparing for a freshman basketball team. After signups took place, Athletic Director and Boys Varsity Coach Bill Schoener noticed there was enough people to support three teams. The large senior class will be able to fill up the majority of the varsity roster, allowing underclassman to be on junior varsity, and the 12 freshman to form a freshman team. Because there are three teams, there will be a decant amount of swing players throughout the…

I didn’t make it. Disappointment surged through my body, but determination quickly squashed that feeling. Looking at the roster in the courts, I couldn’t find my name. I don’t know why I had such high hopes that I'd make the team, seeing how I was new to both high school and the sport. However, I knew I shouldn’t give up, and that I will eventually make the team. Over the summer before my freshman year in high school, I was determined to be on a sports team. I never played a sport before, and…

Or have you been excluded simply because of your last name? Anyone who has ever tried out for cheerleading will probably answer yes to both of these questions. I have been a cheerleader at my school for six years and I’ve been on both junior varsity and varsity squads, but even I can’t escape the “name game” or the hypocritical girls who believe that it’s their job to boss the underclassmen around. Even though the seniors and coaches are an integral part of the problem, they aren’t the cause.…

packed because we had about 15 kids. There was a lot of speculation if there was even going to be a team. We did not practice a lot because we could not practice with varsity without parent consent. Later on during the week, we got our game jerseys. I got number 12 since that was the only quarterback number left. Now at the time ,in varsity the starting quarterback…

You are being demoted to JV. It’s something a athlete never wants to hear. To reach the point where you are on the varsity team, and then to feel as if all of that hard work was taken away from you. It’s debilitating. I had to hear these words the spring of my sophomore year, after playing the first quarter of the season on the varsity team. I had taken my role on the team for granted, assuming my place was secure while allowing my level of play to drop. I felt like a failure, but in the end it…

failures that has helped lead to success was my tennis career throughout high school. Coming into high school as a freshman, the assistant coach had told me that there would be a high chance of me making varsity. As it turned out, I did not play varsity until junior year and was left to play junior varsity freshman and sophomore year, without receiving much advice from the coaches throughout the first two years. I contemplated quitting tennis because it seemed pointless and time consuming. I…

part of my school's junior varsity football team. I waiting for the moment I could go out and perform under the Friday night lights. Monday games were never what you’d hope for when playing football. The game started at around 6, so the sun was almost always going to blind you when facing West. The crowd usually consisted of everyone's parents and a few of your teammates younger siblings, so the atmosphere was never how you experienced it when spectating at a varsity game. However, everyone…

I’m going to write about my first half of my freshman year of high school football. I was really good in 7th and 8th grade and I tried to push myself really hard to be as good as a high school varsity player and get a starting position. But I wasn’t good enough. I broke my ankle my last second from last game in 8th grade running the ball and got tackled and fell hard on it breaking my tibia and fracturing my fibula and tearing all the ligaments in between. I had surgery on it. They placed a…

when we were done, my shirt was soaked in sweat. It was so wet that it was like I could wring out a whole lake with my drenched shirt. I challenged myself to work even harder and do better than last year and I improved my status again. I made the Varsity team as a freshmen. Although I was not a starter, I did get a few opportunities to play in the games which was a big accomplishment to me. During the season one of the starters got hurt, so I was a starter for like three games. I proved…

my perception of what I could achieve. The summer before my freshman year I tried out for soccer and made the freshman team. I was somewhat disappointed, but was determined to show my coaches I had the skills it took to be at least on the junior varsity team. During the first practice, I showed leadership and the drive to want learn more on the field. As a result, I was elected Captain of the boy’s freshman soccer team. Not only was I designated…