Tryout

I used to wish it had never happened. I was diagnosed with Stage Four Neuroblastoma cancer at age two. The three-year survival rate was 30% at the time and my parents did not expect that I would live long. While I do not remember the physical challenge I went through during the 6 months of treatment, (surgery, radiation, two stem cell transplants, chemotherapy), the aftermath of cancer has shaped me. The challenges I have gone through have defined me and will continue to define me. Fifteen…

on the baseball field. Roy Hobbs deals with a lot of life issues throughout the novel and movie. Some of the major issues that he deals with are that he was shot, how he offered a bribe to lose games and the death of a mentor. During Hobbs first tryout,…

the final grade at middle school when I started to hear some of my teammates on my club team starting to talk about soccer tryouts for their high school that they were going to attend. At this point, I was sort of afraid because what if I don’t make my high school team at De La Salle, what will I do then. I trained effortlessly all summer long getting ready for the tryouts of my high school…

In a far off land named the soccer kings crown. A famous soccer player named May De Da was pondering how to defeat the Longhorns soccer team. “Those pesky cows always win , they need a defeat.” would say. This year I will hold a tryouts she thought. May’s tryouts were held at the university and her teammates from last year tried out. The first thing was to play a scrimmage game to decide who would be on the team. Lily was a year younger than everybody,Lily had short brown hair and dark blue…

Immediately after finishing the eighth hole on the third day of tryouts, I checked my score and ecstatically yelled, “If I bogey the ninth hole, I’ll golf a 50!” A fellow golfer in my group replied, “Hah, 50?! And you’re HAPPY about that? Dude, I shoot 44, so you can’t compare to me!” My eye instantly twitched with fierce…

Life is filled with many experiences that can teach a person a lot. In the poem “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy it talks Odysseus’ journey on his way back home to Ithaka in The Odyssey. In addition, he expresses that on Odysseus's way home he is able to learn many valuable lessons and have countless experiences. This message that C.P. conveys very much relates to everyday life in that what you lean on your way to achieving a goal may be better than what you initially intended. In the poem, he is able…

History is chock full of glorious tales of underdogs triumphing against all odds and rising to victory. Everybody has heard that Michael Jordan faltered during his high school basketball tryouts but three years later led the North Carolina Tar Heels to victory at the NBA championships. Likewise, many know that Abraham Lincoln ran a struggling law firm but later became one of the greatest Presidents. And lastly, many know that Pablo Picasso lived on the edge of poverty his whole life but that his…

Kattie Nail Oct, 8 2015 1B Never Give Up! Bam! The ball hits the net and roles on the gym floor. I have played Volleyball for two years. I've never had so much trouble with something before. " How could something that looks so easy be so hard?" Volleyball has been my favorite sport for the longest time, I never knew I would actually get to play! I have made some of the best of friends through games, camps, and just being on the team. When I was in the eighth grade I had tried out for…

to the fullest. When tryouts came we tried out in the afternoon. Some people had time to practice the tryout material before they were called into the building, which consisted of a cheer, chant, dance, jumps, and tumbling if you had any. We received numbers for the order we would tryout in, and it would be in groups of three. Ashley and I did not get to try out together so that made me nervous. Once I was called into the building I got the butterflies in my stomach. The tryout felt like it went…

team report to the gym after school for a meeting”. I was so anxious and got to the meeting before anyone else had arrived. Once everyone gathered, the meeting started and it was a rundown of when conditioning started and when we were going to have tryouts. I wanted to make a good impression so I looked into when conditioning was starting and I immediately started preparing myself. The first day of conditioning I was really nervous because I noticed I was the only freshman there. I thought to…