Division/Classification Essay

Division Classification Essay I stood there, with my knees bended and sweaty hands resting on my thighs as I watched my team slowly travel up the field towards me with the ball aiming right to my position as midfielder. I began getting anxious knowing that if I mess up even a smidge of a centimeter my “teammates” would have my head on a platter. So focused on the scene laying out in front of me I almost just missed my name being yelled out by our team captain Alexia. “Don’t mess up! Pass the ball to me and I will do the rest and score the winning goal!” Of course she was going to score the goal, doesn’t she always. Finally the girls had reached my position and passed the ball swiftly to me. I turned and ran as the midfielder of the opposing team was behind me in arms reach distance. Defense on the opposing team was good because they had Alexia blocked I couldn’t find an entrance. I started panicking and I kicked it to the only person open right then. They all began yelling at me simultaneously because lucky for me I kicked it to the one girl who was lost in her land of unicorns and rainbows and the ball zoomed right past her cluelessness and into the other team’s territory. Well the ending to this tale is that we lost, of course. In sports there are all different types of people. Tall, short, skinny, big, girl, boy, black white but it’s the category that they fall in that lets you know who you’re dealing with when it comes to teamwork. The naturals, the infamous ball hog, the one that is on the team but not really on the team, and the ones who are always yelling at you and manage to get under your skin every time.
The naturals. Plain and simple. You are a natural ‘born with it’ athlete. The ones you try so hard to be and compare yourself so much to. Every sports team has one of those whether you like them or not because you are too jealous. It’s like those naturals were created to be good in a certain sport because they kill it every time on the field or in