Reflective Essay: My Experience As A Softball Team

The summer of 2016 was the first year I played on a travel softball team. The Dawg Daze tournament in Sandusky, Ohio, held at the beginning of August every year is a World Series qualifier. For the 18u CNY Monsters, August 5th to 8th was the best weekend of all softball tournaments. Softball is not a necessity to my future, as John Hopkins only has a club team, but softball has helped me learn about my future. By playing on this team, I have learned how to approach others, to bond over a certain topic, and eventually make friends. The friends I made on this team are forever friends, meaning I will always remember them and remember what they have done to help me. Among teaching myself about their own college experiences and what to (and not to) worry about when time comes they helped me realize what I want out of life, and what I want is adventure.The weekend of the Dawg Daze tournament, although intended for us to do well during softball games, we learned to come together as a team when we arrived at the Cedar Point Amusement Park. To learn who your teammates are outside of sports is really important to help bond as a team. Aspirations and dreams of the girls I spent a majority of my summer with helps me understand how different people are, that the
The dance competition showed how uncoordinated and ungraceful we really are, but provided a laugh from the recently stressful weekend. What hit me even more is how important it is to make friends who are older, wiser and people you generally wouldn't care to meet on the streets. You get an insight to how the world works in certain ways and it will allow you to grow no matter if there is a pebble or a mountain in your way, you will learn to grow around or over your obstacles, as nothing is ever