Nick Pecikonis
English 109.01
Snap Shot 2
October 4, 2010
One Good Man
“Ok guys lets settle down and be calm but lets be energetic!”
“Peccy what are you talking about?” my friend says to me, “Those are exactly opposing ideas!”
I say, “Your right, maybe it didn’t really come out as i wanted it to but guys we just have to remember the basics and just play, we’re getting too worked up and making errors.”
It was a saturday morning, we were at Hilliard Bradley for a volleyball tournament, we had been there for almost three hours and the guys were laking energy and poise. It was our last game of the day and we hadn’t won any. Lets just say that this was becoming a down year. The year before we only had four losses and we were a dominant team taking down some of the top teams in the state. We were the best we had ever been and we won our division. We were mainly seniors that year, out of our team of 14 eight of them were seniors so needless to say we lost a lot of talent, also some of the junior guys didn’t come back out for their senior season. So we were needless to say, young, four seniors one junior and the rest were sophomores. These sophomores were talented though, they all primarily play basketball so they were the correct type of athlete for volleyball, we just lacked experience.
“Lets just go out there and have fun guys, thats all this is. A game, for fun,” I say, play your hearts out but don’t forget this is just a game for fun, don’t get overwhelmed with doubt.”
That game put me at one of the leaders on our team, being a senior and a captain it was my responsibility to get these guys through everything. Like a black widow we are small but u mess with us and we just might take you out. Ready to strike at any time. I made it my goal to lead this team, and i did my best and the end of the season ended strong. We won our first playoff game, something that only had happened once in the history of our school’s program, we lost our second game to the number two team in the state. Even though we didn’t have the strongest season i was proud to be a part of that team because of the way those guys fought for everything we did.
Awesome way describing what the team goes through before a volleyballl game.
ReplyDeleteNice description of what happens when the team is anxious. It's like I can imagine what was going through everyone's minds.
ReplyDeleteI like the story. I also played volleyball when I was in high school and we had ups and downs as well.
ReplyDeleteI liked the sentence where you said: " Like a black widow we are small but u mess with us and we just might take you out." This just shows how confident you guys were.
I really like this story and how you lead your team no matter what, you did a very nice job describing the team.
ReplyDeleteThe parts that stood out to me the most were the beginning and the end. While your main substance was good, your work at the start and finish were exceptional. I enjoyed how you start the story with introduction, which made the rest of story interesting to the reader. A great story about leadership and coming to terms with the difficulties in any challenge
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