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Personal Narrative: Ricky Carter

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Ricky Carter, he’s a short, bald, joyful, man and somehow has a very mood changing personality. At one point point he could be in your face and screaming at you, a few seconds later he’s saying I love you.I met him by continuing basketball in seventh grade and the coaches for high school basketball started looking at the future players of North Eugene, he didn’t know any of us but him and the head coach started coming to practices. As we got to know him he became a mentor to me and my team, we started laying for him in the summers on a team and would go to Washington and California for tournaments. Coming into freshman year the head coach had got fired, yes we missed him but for his sake we continued on. Ricky became the JV coach and there

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