Personal Narrative Essay: The Football Game

Everyone was watching nervously at the stands. All my teammates were eager yet nervous. I was up next and my coach calls me up to bat with two girls on first and third base. My legs were shaking as I went up to the plate. The score is eight to ten with two outs and the pressures on me. He explained to me what I had bring everyone to home plate. Ting! My bat struck the ball and it landed all the way in the outfield. All of my other teammates were cheering inside the dugout. All three of us sprinted as fast as we could to home plate. They both made it to home and I slide onto home plate. I made the home run! Everyone in the dugout came running onto the field with huge smile on their faces chanting, “We won! We won!” My coach shook my helmet and patted my back. Coach was so excited and happy for us. He was the one who made this team so successful. It was not only our championship game it was the goal that we had put our blood, sweat, and tears into. That day I realized what it meant to be a team including the coach. It had been a long game since it was a double header meaning we had two games with the same team and on the same day. Everyone worked very hard throughout the season to reach this point. We
I will also always think of coach as a role model since he is an important figure in my life. He has also impacted my life in a positive way. He was one of the factors that made me passionate about the game of softball. I am very grateful and thankful that he was in my life as a coach; He taught me different techniques to make me a better hitter and a overall softball player. I was very upset when it was the last year playing for my coach. All the girls went off to different high schools and the last time we met we all were sad but we enjoyed all of the years we spent together. Coach worked very hard for us and I will never forget about all that he did. He will always be in my memories and a person that I look up