My basketball journey by andrew

My basketball journey by andrew - May 2022 Scholarship Essay

My whole life I've played basketball. I've worked tirelessly to become the best player I could be, spending countless hours in the gym and watching film. During the summer after my freshmen year of basketball I injured my hip. My doctor told me I would have to go to physical therapy and likely wouldn't be able to play my sophomore year. After months of physical therapy, I got cleared to practice but not play just two days before the season, and after a couple of weeks I finally got cleared to play in games. Going into the beginning of the season I was extremely out of shape and week from doing minimal activity for so long. I was also extremely slow and not mobile from my hip. the first couple games I played in were rough but by the end of the season I had gotten moved from the sophomore team to Jv team. After that season I worked harder than ever to make varsity as a junior and I did. My first year on varsity was disappointing, I had very little play time and when I did play, I performed very poorly. After that season I decided, I wasn't going to have another season like that, so I made a workout plan for the summer more intense than I'd ever done before. Unfortunately, during track I injured my back halfway into the season and I was told I couldn't do any physical activity for 5 months which would mean I would have to start another and my last high school season out of shape and with very little training. After I got cleared only two months before the season started, I slowly got back into my workout plan and prepared for my senior season. I wasn't nearly as good as I wanted to be so I knew this season would be a difficult one. I didn't play in the first couple games of the season but then I eventually worked my way into a just role player position coming off the bench to give people breaks, but I had delt with so much I was happy to even be playing anymore.