Personal Narrative: The Lacrosse Team

The following year was my junior season on the lacrosse team. That year was the first year lacrosse was a school sanctioned sport at Madeira High School. This was a big deal for all of us on the team and especially for us who had started the team years before. We made a school sport at our school which is a very rare feat. I like to think that we made a lasting impact on our community. This was around the time where youth teams started to develop for younger kids who could get a chance to play lacrosse earlier than we ever could. Right now, I can say that I wished I started to play the sport much sooner than I did. However, I don’t know if I would have gotten a chance with it if I did have as close of friendships to those people who started the team with me years back. …show more content…
This was the season that the juniors and seniors, who usually would have the most impact on games, were full of people who started up the team four years before. I was one of the juniors on the team, and this was the first year that I played strictly on the attack line. The other people who started on attack with me were Jack and Steven. Steven, who I usually would just call Steve, was a year older than I was but we were very good friends off the field. We would hang out before and after practice and usually grab some food. This definitely helped with our chemistry on the field. We basically knew what the other was going to do before we did it. This led to many assists to each other over the course of the season. Jack had played when he when he was in middle school, so his stick skills were as good as the rest of us even though this was his first year on the