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Personal Narrative-My 7th Grade Basketball Team
Last year was my 7th grade year in middle school and I love basketball so I decided to try out for the 7th grade basketball team. The tryouts consisted of running, dribbling, shooting and mostly rebounding and layups, we also did a lot of passing drills too. Tryouts lasted for two weeks and we finally found out who made the team. I was one of them!
A month after that we started having games. We played our home games in an old, raggedy gym. First game we lost but we only won two games that whole season and we lost in the first round of the playoffs.
On Nov 10th we had a game against VMS, which is our rival. I was at practice the day before and I got tired so I stopped running. When I stopped my coach told me to keep going so I rebelled and said

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