Tryout

in this little class room about to sweat to death we wait until our coaches tell us what to do. Everyone looked up to these coaches for some reason and I wanted to find out why. While we was sitting in this meeting talking about what we need for tryouts I started getting sick and thinking to myself who was going to make this team. I just wanted to make this team so bad and I…

Unfortunately I didn’t make the team, but that defeat led me to persevere and try again the next year. The season went by faster than I would have liked and in no time it was my junior year and tryouts for hockey had begun again. This time I came with more confidence and ability, both of which helped me earn a spot on the team. A sport I had started less than five years ago; my name and the words varsity hockey were words I never thought I would…

this” I panted to myself. I was about an hour into my soccer tryouts when I came to this conclusion. But as the words “I can’t do this” slipped into my mind, other words slipped in also: “but what if I can?” “All right, listen up,” Coach began, “when I look for future players on my team, I not only look for good players, but also players that can be made better. Talent takes you far, hard work takes you farther.” With these words, tryouts began. Our first conditioning drill was simple. Dribble…

There are a million things that have happened to me. One of the coolest is this: I’m from Rochester Illinois. Rochester has an amazing program that I’ve wanted to be in since 5th grade. It was four long years before I got my opportunity to be in that program, but I got my chance, and I wanted to capitalize on it. The program I really wanted to be in was the Madrigals. There are a lot of people that try out for it, and not that many get in. The year before I was a Freshman, there was only…

When I was a sophomore in high school I was trying out for my high school’s varsity men’s hockey team. I played goalie, and there were two other goalies trying out for the team. I felt confident about my tryout, but when the coaches asked to see me in their office by confidence turned into nervousness. When I walked into the coaches office I saw the look on their faces, and I knew what they were going to say next. They gave the option to stay on the team; or I could go play for a club high…

would think about me. Would they think that I'm atrocious, would they laugh at me? Or would they think that I'm decent? What I did know was that I needed to move out of my comfort zone and begin something fresh. To continue, the weeks rolled by and tryouts came along. There were individuals writing down how talented we were. There was also a British man yelling at us to do push-ups and run faster. He would yell: what is the best team in the world?! moreover, my fellow soccer players and I…

On a scale of one to ten, I’d be a ten. However, in this case, ten being last. When I was younger, I’d be last at almost everything, I was last in the batting order for all my little league baseball games, last to finish my food at the table, last to get ready for school, I was last at almost everything. If animals were to race to a finish line, I’d be a turtle with a broken leg. The point is, I was always last as a child. Around the eighth grade, nothing really changed about my mentality. I…

In all my life I've been in every sport you could think of . When you grow up with a family of "star" athletes you basically follow the genes of your family. When my brother wanted to play football he had to tryout. On the next day of his tryouts, I learn how to play football. If you don't know think about football, except for the fact people tackle other people and use a football. Trying to play would be tough. When my dad was teaching me; we started with the basics. The basics of football…

support their team. At my elementary school, no one was allowed to play sports till you were in third grade. So after waiting five years, I finally got to try out for the cheerleading team. I expected I would be nervous and scared when I got to tryouts. That 's the complete opposite of how I felt. I was so excited to show everyone all the jumps I could do and how great my cartwheel was! The coaches taught us three different cheers that we had to try out with. I learned those much easier than…

throughout your entire body the second you step foot outside. However, the cold air that day wasn’t what made my mind wander, rather it was set on the one thing I love doing most-- basketball. It was the day I had been waiting for since I signed up; tryouts for Indiana Elite SWISH were finally here. I awoke that day and got dressed in a pair of burgundy, Pike Central basketball gym shorts, a Pike Central t-shirt, black Nike basketball socks and I waited all day until my mom finally told me that…