Playing sports all my life, I’ve embodied many qualities like leadership, teamwork, and sportsmanship. Being an athlete, you learn at a young age what teamwork is. I started playing basketball at a young age and being in that team environment all my life, you learn real quick the value of teamwork. Playing a game that involves around ball movement, player communication on the court, and bringing others up when they’re down, were definitely defining moments of what taught me teamwork. I’ve also learned teamwork skills, helping with school activities. Being in FBLA and BETA club, we’re sometimes in charge of decorating for school dances and activities and being apart of that it’s really made me value that teamwork quality and even teach
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As a sophomore, I had to opportunity to get lots of playing time in varsity games and being a young player on the team, getting big playing time, I felt I had to take the leadership role in my sophomore class. Now that I am a senior on the team, I feel more of that weight on my shoulders. Being on the court most of the time, I feel it’s part of my duty, on and off the court, to be a leader for the girls. Keeping them serious in practice to just being someone they look up to when they need guidance, I feel those situations is what really taught me the leadership qualities. I’ve also inherited the leadership quality my senior year when I was chosen to be the student section leader. With this role I was in charge of keeping the students hype and into the games, coming up with themes for the students to have fun with, and help come up with and lead the pep rallies. Previously I talked about playing sports at a young age taught me teamwork, but that also has taught me sportsmanship and being in the sports atmosphere that’s really made me value sportsmanship. You just let it go in one ear and out the other and stay positive towards them. In my latest basketball game, we played a team we’ve had beef with for a long, long time and we had some issues with those girls on and off the court
As a sophomore, I had to opportunity to get lots of playing time in varsity games and being a young player on the team, getting big playing time, I felt I had to take the leadership role in my sophomore class. Now that I am a senior on the team, I feel more of that weight on my shoulders. Being on the court most of the time, I feel it’s part of my duty, on and off the court, to be a leader for the girls. Keeping them serious in practice to just being someone they look up to when they need guidance, I feel those situations is what really taught me the leadership qualities. I’ve also inherited the leadership quality my senior year when I was chosen to be the student section leader. With this role I was in charge of keeping the students hype and into the games, coming up with themes for the students to have fun with, and help come up with and lead the pep rallies. Previously I talked about playing sports at a young age taught me teamwork, but that also has taught me sportsmanship and being in the sports atmosphere that’s really made me value sportsmanship. You just let it go in one ear and out the other and stay positive towards them. In my latest basketball game, we played a team we’ve had beef with for a long, long time and we had some issues with those girls on and off the court