Personal Narrative: Running Back

It was the first day of summer workouts and we had just got done stretching, we were getting ready to go with our individual coaches. When we were trying to work on inside run game and we needed a full back. I was a pretty big running back and not as fast as some of the others so all of the other players were telling me to play full back. I got mad and didn’t like being told to go to full back so I said “No”. The other guys were saying “you’re way too slow to play running back” and “You have never even played running back why would you try now”, I just took it all in and didn’t say anything. I continued to play running back and try and prove them wrong. After all the summer workouts camp came around and it was finally time to put on the
When the quarterback went up behind the center and said his cadence I felt my stomach tighten up and get really nervous until we both took our steps and I got my hands on the ball. I saw the line gave me a big hole to work with and knew it was on the secondary I had to beat, with one cutback and a broken tackle I scored on the first play of the scrimmage. With the actual season about to began I knew the first game was coming closer and closer and I couldn’t wait. Everyday at practice we knew we had to get the little things down to be successful when game time came around. On our last practice which was a friday we went through and made sure everyone knew what different things they were on. When Monday came around and it was time for our first game I was nervous all day but also excited, when the bus left I put on my headphones and was just thinking about the game and everything I had to do right. I was startled to feel someone tap on my shoulder, I took off my headphones and looked up, I heard coach yelling my name and he said “Tron, first offensive series we’re running 37 power be ready”. I put my headphones back on and get back to getting