Tryout

The end March, leading to majorette tryouts in the beginning of April was stressful and made me run around frantically. I was practicing at the wellness center in Niles after school and I spent more time on my routine and tricks than usual. My routine finished with an illusion catch which was a new and very advanced trick, being the highest point in my routine it had to be flawless. Countless drops, slips, falls and hits on the head shook my confidence. I became flustered and beat down every…

Role of Basketball in Part-time Indian The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie, is about a young Indian boy, Junior, and his struggle to find his place in the reservation and the white community. Basketball is an essential theme in the story that connects both of Junior’s worlds. Though basketball, Junior gains confidence and perseverance, insight into different ideas and worlds, and realization that status doesn’t determine your future. Junior learns…

Baylee Baxter Mrs. Mahannah English 110 8 November 2017 She´s a listener and a doer. She is a woman driven by compassion, by faith, and a heart full of love. She is the one person, outside of my family members, who has always believed in my abilities. She taught me to persevere in all I do. She taught me that no matter how many times I fall down, I will always get back up. When I was just three years old, I began taking tumbling classes. My sister, who is seven years older than me, had been in…

We exchanged our names and started class. Today is volleyball tryouts! After school I have to go in the locker room and get ready, I am so excited! I have been practicing all day and night for this and I feel that I am finally ready to get the spot on this team. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Mountain View has won the regional state championship 5 years in a row! Finally, it’s the end of 8th period and I can finally go to tryouts. I walk into the locker room and there I see standing there…

So Takeo went to go do some tryouts in order to make the team but the people that hated him was making so that he couldn’t make it on the so he did try his best but he didn’t make the team so he went home and heard the kids making fun of him and made him very angry it’s like he can…

is the most important person in my life. She supports me through everything I do. She my best friend, my role model, and my number one fan. She believes in me when I don’t even believe in myself. When I didn’t even believe in myself for volleyball tryouts, she did. She knew I could make a team that was liable to go to Nationals. Something I dreamed of that I didn’t even think I could accomplish. For piano, I was doing one of the hardest things composers. I spent a month trying to complete and I…

This brochure would be available at the Alamogordo Public Library in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Population of Alamogordo is 31,000, 5.4% African American, 41.8% Hispanic, 41.6% Caucasian, 1.7% Asian, and 9.3% other. The Public Library is located in North West, Alamogordo, near City Hall and Parks & Recreation Center. The families that patronize the Library are mostly lower class (28.6%) with a lesser population of upper class and middle class mixed in. The Public library has a 50.4%-49.6% female…

Constantly consumed by my own thoughts, I had felt a flurry of emotions, struggling to differentiate my feelings of excitement from my feelings of angst as I first attended tryouts for the cheerleading squad. Never had I been forced to say chants or perform dances to multiple eight counts. It was not commonplace for me to be found along the sidelines, cheering for others. Rather, I was the student who was on the court, reacting instinctively to the movement of the ball, but after enduring such…

ball on target/Distance. I had a very hard time trying to get the right shot going for me, but still I kept trying and trying to be the best out of myself in those 2 weeks of practice. I felt like I actually had the hang of playing soccer. Soccer Tryout came and I was prepared to what was coming to me, I’m not going to lie I was very nervous. I seen a lot of kids better than me that kind of took my method away of being myself. My shot was off target, my passing and dribbling were horribly going…

sit back and give up and not care, or I could get up and do whatever was necessary to improve. I was able to reflect on my past triumphs and losses, and use those as stepping stones propriety. In addition, my high school volleyball coach told me at tryouts that if I improved between then and the start of the season, I would be moved up to varsity. I had the whole summer in order to improve, and I took this to heart, using my time off to put my whole heart into the sport I loved to get better. I…