Now basketball is one of, if not my favorite sport ever. I started to not hate it, but not quit enjoy it in grade four. I think the only reason I didn't hate it anymore was because I finally figured out how to get the ball in the net, which I've heard, dose help you win. I really started to get into it in grade five. The reason that this strange change of events happened was because my mom coached a b-ball team, but it wasn't just any b-ball team, it was the best one in the entire universe. Its all thanks to the captain of that team, I don't know if she would want me to use her full name or not so lets just call her B. She was one of the best b-ball players I have ever and was a great leader. She taught me how to play the game and that was when I started to go to all of their games and pratices. That season was really fun and the team even ordered a team shirt for me. I think I really liked it because they all made me feel like one of them.
When I was in grade six I finally got to play on a real team which was after the summer that I went to a real b-ball camp and my dad put up a net for me in the back yard. That was the summer I had finally got to start trying out my new skills that B had taught me. I came back that fall fresh out of camp and ready to start playing. The only problem was that they didn't
have enough girls for an under 13 b-ball team so they put the five girls from grade six on the under 16 team and well lets just say we had a little height disadvantage, and even though we did have some older girls on the team as well we still only won one game that season, but that was the year that the senors, the my moms team, won everything. I had gone to every single one of their games that year and had loved to watch them play the game. I was very sad at the end of that year when they had all went off to university.
The next year, well this year, we finally had enough girls to make an under 14 b-ball team, though the only problem was that we only had grade seven and six's on the team and half of them didn't even know how to play. The good news was that I was the captain along with Hayley. We lost every game this season but that's okay because when B first started playing basketball she said that she had lost every single game too. Besides next season we're going to win every single game because we'll have five core players and it'll be their 3rd year playing plus like another ten girls who will be going into their second year of b-ball and who all will make great basketball players one day. Oh yeah, at the end of our season this year I was announced MVP. I was so happy.
Now I am looking at another great year of b-ball ahead of me and am so excited to get back out on the court. I am also going to another b-ball camp this summer with Erika and its going to be a blast.
Life Lesson: If you ever come across a sport or food that you don't like, don't give up on it because you never know, one day it might become you're new favorite thing.
