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Before The Storm: Personal Narrative

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The calm before the storm. Color Commentating is a big part of my high school experience. I unwind with it. I think freely about something I passionate about. I get to be myself behind the headset. I sit take in the game, and explain it to others. I get to take in the moments of when a player hits a big shot to put his team up in a close game, or when a coach calls a crucial time out to rally their team to get back into a game. To see the crowd roar with excitement when a dunk occurs during a fastbreak. When someone crosses someone over then drains a shot. The best of all is when ETHS wins and we talk about how they used man to man defense to stifle New Trier’s three point attack. I love watching momentum shifts as a team goes on an eight to zero run randomly in the middle of the third quarter. I love listening to the play-by-play guy Chris paint the games picture with his words the way Shakespeare did with his plays. I love the way Ms. Brown tells the fans how the screen set by Nojel freed up a shot for Chris who wasn’t involved in the screen.

Color Commentating for the basketball teams at Evanston Township High School gave me a look into a profession that I may want to do with my life. It forced me to jump right …show more content…

Broadcasting is the channel in which I express who I am, and give me a platform possibly to improve the world with my voice, and provide me a channel to people I wouldn’t normally meet in this large world. Broadcasting and sports I’ve found to have a high place in American Society, and I think that those higher societal responsibilities are important to recognize and I need to accept those. I look to people such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Tony Dungy, and Colin Kaepernick as the perfect model for how to use your platform to better the world. They did this through playing, and coaching in Dungy’s case, but I would use broadcasting as my platform to create a better

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