High School Varsity Sports

My favorite softball memories are the long bus rides to and from the field. Since the softball fields were not on campus, our head coach drove a bus to a from our "home" fields as well as the away games. The long drives meant that the entire team was on the bus together and is where we did a lot of team bonding. We had team songs that we yelled together but we also had some serious pep talks when heading into important games. These bus rides made us a better team. 

My favorite lacrosse memory was my first tryouts. The head coach and my teacher made it a point to let me know if I came to tryouts I was going to be on the team and they were going to use that time to teach me how to play. When I showed up, that is exactly what happened. The goalie coach and I worked one-on-one for the entire 3 days of tryouts and by the end of it, I was not half bad. Catcher and goalies do very similar tasks, so I was able to apply my softball skills to lacrosse which made my baseline higher than other new goalies. In some skills, I was on par with the goalie who had been playing for years.