“Building the Perfect Basketball Athlete” During the past years‚ basketball coaches have begun to put more effort into working closely with their athletes to maximise their skill development. There are many important components essential to becoming the elite basketballer. Some of the major components that are critical to building the perfect basketball athlete include the athlete’s nutrition intake‚ the knowledge and experience of the athlete’s game‚ a positive public profile and the athletes training
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Karley Pohlmann Personal Narrative Composition‚ 8am Red‚ that is what comes to my mind when I remember May 3rd of my freshman year in high school. Red was my totaled out car‚ red was the stained seat fabric from my brother’s blood‚ red was the flashing lights and sirens‚ and red was my eyes from the tears I cried. I could not change that day‚ I could not turn back time and so my heart bled out red. As I was a freshman getting ready to get my license within the next year‚ my step dad bought
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Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world’s most popular and widely viewed sports. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play. A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line‚ and three points if the
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History of Basketball The first game similar to basketball may have been played by the early people of ancient Mexico as early as 500’s. The Mayan people used the decapitated skulls of their enemies as the ball. They also made sacrifices if you did not win the game. James Naismith was a man born on In 1861‚ James Naismith invented basketball. The idea of basketball came from Naismith’s early school education. He used to play a game known as duck-on-a-rock. The idea was to knock a "duck"
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Just before the basketball game against carver.”Hey coach my ankle is all banged up‚ I don’t know if I can play.” I said with a tone of pain. Coach responds with “if you can’t play we will have to play tom and he is the ball boy all the other player did not show up so thing is going around.” “Ok coach I will try to play.”said jamie Next the game is tied thirty seconds left we inbound the ball we fly down the court. The ball was going from guy to guy just trying to get an
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Personal Narrative Essay Growing up‚ I spent a lot of time at various relatives houses. For the first chunk of my childhood‚ my mother’s entire side of the family lived within fairly close proximities of one another. As a young child‚ I never really thought much about visits to my grandmother’s house‚ or the three minute walk to my aunt and uncle’s house when I had became restless and wanted something to do. Maybe it came with age‚ or maybe the cliché that‚ “You don’t know what you have until
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NARRATIVE ESSAY ABOUT A DANGEROUS SITUATION I’m going to talk about a time when I was in a dangerous situation. When I was ten years old two guys mugged me‚ they threatened me with a gun and I was so scared I remember thinking they were going to hurt me or even kill me. My father had a restaurant and he needed smaller bills to give change he could not leave the restaurant‚ so he sent me to buy some groceries. On my way to the groceries store two guys told me to come closer I refused and walked
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Basketball From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the sport. For the ball used in the sport‚ see Basketball (ball). For other uses‚ see Basketball (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Basketball Jordan by Lipofsky 16577.jpg Michael Jordan goes for a slam dunk at the old Boston Garden Highest governing body FIBA First played 1891‚ Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ U.S. Characteristics Contact Contact Team members 10-20 (5 on court) Mixed gender Single Categorization Indoor
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Identity I felt as though my identity was useless and I myself was useless. I knew enough about friendships to know when it was a one sided friendship. That was about the only thing I knew for a while. I also could recognize when someone only talked to me to get close to another. My self-esteem beat me and ripped me apart like a lion rips apart a zebra. I felt as if no one wanted to be around me‚ I was too awkward‚ with an unpleasant face and unhealthy body. “Grace!” I heard someone exclaim‚
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Literacy Narrative – Fahrenheit 451 A moment when I as a writer felt an influence towards my ability to be literate was in my tenth grade English class‚ reading the novel Fahrenheit 451. Never before had I shown such appreciation and willingness to understand for a school assigned book‚ in truth my interest with school readings had been deteriorating due to the consistency of papers and assignments.. For years any school readings were easy to understand and majority held interesting tales‚ yet
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