When I arrived at the gym, the coaches greeted me with a warm welcome. After everyone was present, we all ran five laps around the gym to warm up. Once we were finished with that, the coaches sat us down and informed us about the skills and drills that we were going to be performing throughout the whole week of tryouts. Once they were done lecturing, we started to work on the fundamentals of basketball: passing, dribbling, defense, and so on. Most of these drills required us to pa

On the second, third and fourth days of tryouts, we basically reviewed what we had covered on the first and then more. We started off these days by doing the zig- zag drill. This drill is a defensive drill that helped us maintain a perfect defensive stance while we guarded the ball with our hands and slid across the floor with our feet. This drill was all about coordination; coordination that I didn’t have. I found it quite difficult to maintain the defensive stance while sliding my feet in a zig-zag direction. We spent lots of time working on our defensive skills, because, as I learned at tryouts, defense is an important part of the game.

rtner up; so of course I chose my cousin. This made it easy for me, because she knew what the heck she was doing and she was good at doing it!

The passing came quite easy for me, but it was the dribbling that troubled me. On one particular drill, we had to place one hand behind our back while we dribbled the ball with the other hand. The tricky part to this was that we had to dribble through cones and other obstacles. I would constantly loose the ball or knock over a cone. There were even times when I caused the person next to me to fumble the ball. I am glad to say that I wasn’t the only one to cause chaos. The coaches continued to encourage us on.

By going through that experience, I have learned so much. I’ve realized that anything

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