Importance Of Basketball

Being in the basketball team has given me a variety of experience in different fields. Every time I set foot on the court it’s a new learning experience. It goes far beyond just teamwork or any other common elements found in basketball. The main things basketball taught me were leadership skills, how to communicate with your team, and how to never give up. While we did have a decent amount of wins against other schools, we also learnt how to accept defeat early on. During one of our first tournaments at NYU we accepted the fact that there are people who are better than us, and that we could lose at any time. We were able to accept the fact that sometimes we would lose important games. While that would be disappointing at first, we knew we

After hours of practice and hard work, we beat almost every single school that we played against. All of that time spent learning how to work with your team paid off in the end, and last year was a fantastic season. But we all knew it would end sometime since our team was mostly made of up grade 12’s and they were graduating that year. But it came as a shock that our coach was leaving too. He would be moving to a new school in Nova Scotia at the end of that year and it left the remaining team so disheartened. But we decided to celebrate instead of whining about it, so each of us decided to put up some of our own money to buy Mr. David a trophy before he leaves. Our school’s way of rewarding the athletes for all of their dedication and hard work was to host an annual Athletes Banquet, and we decided to present the trophy to him at the event. At that event we weren’t just teammates, we treated each other like family. After Mr. David left, we didn’t know who would coach us and that’s when Mr. Chris stepped in. We had a few practices with him and once again qualified for the quarterfinals in NYU’s tournament. All of the rookies in the team look to follow in the footsteps from the more experienced players, and we have to live up to that