Basketball Season

For the past eight years or so, I have been playing on the same rec basketball team. This year, with all the girls in my age group starting high school, many of them stopped playing rec. Because of this loss in numbers, a few girls from my team, Chaos, and what was left of another team, The Hurricanes, joined together. Because of that, we also have three coaches, my coach from our past years, and two coaches from The Hurricanes. As much as some of the girls don't like it, we've renamed our team Hurrichaos because it sounds really cool. Oh... and both teams are recognized.

We have a good mix of girls this year. In past years, my team has had a few great players, and then the rest of us were alright. This team doesn't have that. Everyone on my team is good. Some girls are better at certain things, but for the most part I'd say we're all pretty evenly ranked. I think it's nice to have even players, because then we don't have a problem about even playing time. We all get to play as much as we would like, while it makes sense mathematically.

I knew every girl that's on my new team. I wasn't friends with all of them, but I at least knew of them. We have all connected really well as teammates. Everything we do together becomes fun and that's great.

Although my team is very nice, and we're really good, I do enjoy basketball a lot outside of those reasons. I don't quite know what I like most about it, but it's just one of the many sports I like to play, I guess.

Our team plays surprisingly well together for a first year team. By surprisingly well, I mean we have gone undefeated, 6-0, so far this season. We have three regular season games left, and then our play-off games. This year our goal is to stay in first and bring home the gold. We are also hoping that we will still have all of our girls willing to play next season.

Thanks for reading!

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Kendra <3