Graduation Speech: Field Glory

In high school, everyone dreams of having that perfect sports season their senior year. Everyone hopes that they can be the senior that leaves an impression on the underclassmen, whether it’s teaching them something new or giving them a taste of playoffs so they have the drive to get back to there once you’ve graduated. I remember being a freshman and not only getting the taste of playoffs, but getting the whole thing. We made it through playoffs that year and won states against our rivals. Not only did I gain a stronger love for field hockey from winning states, I became driven to do it again. Going into my senior year, I expected our season to go the way it always had; we make it into playoffs seeded high in our conference. After our first few games, I realized that it was not going to be a season like the seasons before. We were losing games, we didn’t know how to work together, and we were getting frustrated with each other …show more content…
We started pushing, because we finally didn’t want our season to end. In the first and second rounds of playoffs, we knocked out a first seeded team (whom we had lost to during our regular season) and a fifth seeded team. For both of these teams, we had a desire to win. We knew we could, we just had to execute it. And we did. We won both of those games, and we went on to the Southern Final. At the Southern Final game, we knew what we had to do to win. We had to work as a unit, outrun the other team, and out work them. Unfortunately, we didn’t. We didn’t work as a unit and we didn’t outrun them. We ended up losing the game and being the Southern Final runners-up. Winning games can’t be expected, it must be worked for. Since I have realized this, I want to strive to work harder at school and sports. I want to do the best that I can at everything I do and I finally know that I can’t expect. it. Good things must be worked