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Neil Armstrong Middle School Reflection Paper

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I walk into Neil Armstrong Middle School 's gym, nervous as can be, not ready for tryouts. We started doing layup drills, I missed so many compared to the other girls. After a while we started scrimmaging which I must have done good because I made the B team. Days after I found out what team I was on we had our first practice. Our first practice was mostly getting to know each other. As weeks passed we started to get comfortable with each other, and learning drills, hard drills. Days passed and we had games and more practices. After I practiced hard we had another game. It was an away game at a middle school in Silverton. We got to the school, warmed up, and started playing basketball against Silverton Spartans. I

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