Fun Experience

I would say joining the basketball team in 8th grade was pretty fun; I mean it was the first time joining a sport in school (let alone making it) and even though it was fun, it was kind of scary. Never in my life was I able to say that I could play very well in basketball; I was just decent enough to play a regular game.
Both tryouts were pretty fun. I just remember saying to myself," Hey this looks like ballroom dancing!", when I was trying to defend the ball from another player to one side of the basketball court to the other. I also was pretty happy when I heard that I made the team. Never will I forget the many tireless nights, going through every play to play and the aggressive games we played with other schools. At the end, we may not have won first place in the championship, but out of all the basketball teams, we had the best sportsmanship.
Now trying to apply all the newfound skills from 8th grade to the high school tryouts, I didn't have the best of luck. In freshman year, I wasn't able to get rides from Mountain House to Tracy everyday, so I couldn't have joined the team. In sophmore year, I was able to do some conditioning and do the tryouts, but I was so rusty in basketball despite my home "training", I didn't make the team as well. And that made me feel so down for a while. I wanted to be on the that team so bad; I actually wanted to go through all that rush that I felt in 8th grade, but at the same, it makes me want to try harder and become an even better player. I may not feel as strongly about this now since almost a year has passed and I've grown into being interested in other things, but nothing is better than running across that court back and forth for your school.