Personal Narrative: My First Football Team

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Everyone has a special moment that they will remember forever. One of my most special moments in sports happened recently. Approaching freshman volleyball season, all the talk from the upperclassman was about overpowering TC West. As a freshman, I had the mindset that I was going to play freshman ball. I didn't think it really mattered whether we lost or not against our rival because we were only 9th graders. Of course, I didn't want to lose and I wanted to do my best. When I made the JV team the first thing I thought about was now I need to give my best. My team wants to beat TC West more than anything, and now I'm part of this team! Every work out, every run, every volley, we pushed to our max to prepare to play West.

As game day approached we worked harder in practice and conditioned more. As a team we wanted to beat West, but we all had doubts that we most likely would not be able to play up to their level. We all kept working and pushing to …show more content…
I woke up nervous, but repeatedly told myself that I could do it throughout the day. The school day ended, and we went into the gym to begin pep-talks, and warmups. We kept telling ourselves that our team is the greatest. Sooner than later the West bus arrived and what seemed like seconds later there was a coin toss and game one of the match had started. To say it nicely, nerves definitely got the best of us and we didn't play up to our potential. We lost big. We were all down on our selves, but we wanted these next two games more than anything. Game two started up, and our team got in the groove, pushing points back and fourth with our opponents. I played front row and started to get my hands on blocks, and my hits in, but I didn't serve. I rarely serve, and when I do it's against an easy team. West is not an easy team! Our team all came together and won game two. We started playing like the greats. Although we were 1-1 with our rivals, we believed we could pull out game

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