Tryout

them to want to join and play recreation sports (basketball). For many middle and high school basketball players, the most stressful part of school is the middle of fall; the season in which basketball tryouts start. Standing outside of the gym doors the morning after the last day of tryouts, trying to find your number. “Yes! I made it,” yells one of your competitors,…

coach. I immediately was flooded with emotions of hope and anxiousness for the outcome of this conversation. It was the last day of soccer tryouts and he wanted me to try out with varsity after school that day instead of the freshman. I was anxious in the best way possible for what life had in store for me at that moment. From the second I stepped into tryouts til the moment I walked out, I exerted all the passion, skill, and energy I had inside of me. I really wanted this, which made the moment…

Og Mandino once said “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” This is not true. It is a great motivational statement,and it will work for some events. A Pre-Algebra SOL is a great example. You can study for months and you will ace it. But, say you were playing baseball and you said that you could hit a longer home run than Aaron Judge, one of the best home-run hitters in the league, while Luis Severino, star pitcher for the New York Yankees was pitching.…

Feeling like an Outsider The 3 day basketball tryouts have begun and I see that few of my friends have showed up. The few that did were thinking about quitting. “For the love of the game,” I tell them, “keep going until the end.” But every day I see more and more dropping like flies. Many of them don’t want to feel the soreness and sweat dripping down your back. Others just felt like they sucked at basketball and weren’t good enough. As the results come in I am faced with a challenge. I find…

your tryouts!” my mom hollered from downstairs. I covered my ears with my pillow and I heard the constant muffled yelling from my mom. “You…… get….. quickly…. or else….” and then I heard someone stomping up the stairs towards my room. “It’s going to be a long day,” I told myself as I confronted the monster coming into my room. I was at the TSC,the competitive soccer team of my city, tryouts and meeting my new coach. “Hustle, boys come on!” I heard as I walked into the tryouts.…

An experience to me is something that is unforgettable, that one thing that means a little extra to you and something that will have a lasting effect on you. I travel in reverse to the little girl standing in the mirror and daydreaming of one day becoming not only an amazing basketball player, but a great person in general as well. I watched and mimicked Allen Iverson on the tv to the best of my abilities as my brother did, then I grew. It all started for me at a young age and I began using my…

26. There are some very clear cut and distinct rights that all participants of psychological tests are privy to. Discuss the importance of adhering to these rights.  It is important to highlight that APA code of conduct standards are mandate and must be followed to its maximum extent. Standards are regulated by law and any psychologist or person involved administering psychological tests or assessments must abide them. The lack of any of these standards could lead to disciplinarian actions from…

Personally, one of my most challenging experiences and accomplishments was being part of the swim team. I went to swim tryouts without knowing how to swim, but yet I was determined to learn because I love the outdoors and trying out new things. I was nervous and terrified about the fact that maybe I could’ve drowned or even worse --for people to make fun of me for not knowing how to swim. Of course I was wrong, because one I did not drown and two, people that were already on the team were…

Symbolization of WesBurlesque For my final research paper, I want to examine the concept of “WesBurlesque” through an ethnographic analysis of fieldwork I will conduct during the semester. Wesleyan has a very public identity around sexuality and sex and it is through performances like “WesBurlesque” Wesleyan exemplifies their comfort with the erotic. I will be interviewing people who are a part of the production, and people who enjoy the show to better understand why people are drawn to this…

had no clue what had happened. When I was ten, I signed up to play for my first select baseball team. They were from Waterloo and called the Blue Diamonds. I was only okay with playing for them because my friend Sam played with me. They had the tryouts in August, and we both made the team. We were a pretty good team and we had multiple wins. Towards the end of the season, we played Red Bud. They weren’t any good, and we were winning by three. In the fifth, I had gotten walked on four straight…