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Basketball is a big part of my life. As a child I always use to play a lot of sports and my favorite sport was always basketball. I was never really serious with basketball until I reached high school. In middle school I use to play at this after school program with my friends and I was one of the best ones there. Coming to high school with the confidence that i would still be the best was defiantly a mistake. There were so many people better than me at the tryout. There were people from traveling teams that i have never heard of. This is when i started getting nervous. When I found out i made the team I was so happy yet nervous at the same time because I was never on an official basketball team before. Freshman year was the hardest year for me. Everyday I use to come home in the worst moods. I felt like I was the worst one on the team and I would always get picked on. I would play about a minute in every game because there was 4 seniors and I wasn't one of the experienced freshmans. Finally by the end of the season I made a goal that by my sophomore year I would practice until I get good. Every day in summer I would practice my shot. By the time the basketball season started again and tryouts came i was so nervous. All i wanted to do was prove everyone wrong. Everyone thought i was a horrible basketball player. I went to that tryout with the confidence that i would soon be the best basketball player on the team. The whole try out all my coach could say was "omg you got so much better." I made every shot that day. The next day in school I looked at the team list and my heart was beating so fast. When I saw my name on that list I was so happy. The only goal i wanted to accomplish was to prove everyone wrong. So far I proved my coach and team wrong, next was my friends. Now being on a basketball team is a lot of hard work and commitment. But how can you not do something you love. Basketball helps all my stress and problems go away. When Im in a bad mood, I'll play basketball and it will make me become in a better mood. The only problem about this whole basketball thing was that it brought a lot of stress. Since I had practice every single day I was so tired by the time it was over. I defiantly wasnt in the mood for homework. Not wanting to do homework was a bad sign. My grades started to drop. This is when my mom went physco on me. She always hated basketball because she felt like if i didn't play my grades would be so much better. I use to stay up all night doing homework and get no sleep. And sometimes i would stay up talking to my friends all night  until my alarm for school would go off. I would get no type of sleep at all. Finally when i got my act back together i got my grades up again. I got better in basketball and i would never slack. I made sure I gave 100% at practice and my whole team got so much better in games. My teammates are even closer then friends. There more like family. And next year I know our hard work will defiantly pay off.