Personal Narrative Essay: My Personal Experiences

I felt this sense of fear, but I knew it was just nervousness. It caused my whole body to tremble. I creeped onto the field and pass by the fifty girls and all of the coaches. Just me walking by everyone gave me this ginormous knot in my stomach, it made me feel like I was going to pass out right on the field. I was breathing heavy, like I just ran a marathon. I was beyond nervous just to be the new girl on the field. I was scared of what the girls thought of me, and how the coaches thought I would play and adapt to the sport. I had never even picked up a lacrosse stick and the girls were passing, catching and shooting on goal: how does a new player get to there if they were two week late into the season? I was terrified I would never get to the level of the rest of the team.
The coach came over to talk to me and I think this was the most nerve racking event of that day. He was the one person I had to impress. He asked me “Have you ever played before?” and I froze, all I could think was “does it look like I have played before?” but no words came out of my mouth. He understood I was nervous and asked if I knew how to catch and throw with a lacrosse stick. I really
Lacrosse has been the hardest sport I have tried in my life, but also the sport that motivated me the most to become better and understand the concept of the game. Lacrosse has a universal language of what happens on the field, and also, every individual team has their own different language. I had to learn both and multiple different ones for the multiple teams I have played on. The unique language varies between every teams; the unique language helps the girls on my team tell each other stuff without the other team understanding. The language was difficult for me to understand and pick up, but after a few day, I started to remember it and use it. It helps the game run swiftly and