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Shooting for a Spot

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By Philip Yeoh

I was on the verge of breaking down. My brain was on a one percent battery. School had just ended, and I was more than ready to jump right into fall break. “DING! DING!” My phone vibrated. “Bois it’s time for basketball season!”

The end of football and volleyball season marks the beginning of the basketball season. With a new basketball coach in Dalat, students are unaware of the selection process. Questions began flooding through all students’ minds. “Will the new coach give us senior privilege?” asked Tien Min Tan (12).

All students trying out are compelled to show their very best effort. Each student, whether good nor bad, has an equal chance of making the team. There are no presumptions on who’s the better player.

In the coming Wednesday and Thursday, all students are given an opportunity to show their capabilities needed to make the varsity boys basketball team. With only twelve open spots in the team, and more than ten senior guys signed up for the varsity boys basketball tryout, the seniors start getting skeptical of who will or will not make the team.

The seniors constantly go back and forth discussing who works the hardest, who hustles the most, who plays the best defense, and who’s the best playmaker.

“Imagine if they were deciding on the last player of the team and it was between you and me? What if they made it where the other eleven players had to decide who should be the last player?” questioned Onyu Kwak (12). The immense tension between each other is indefinite and students are beginning to create absurd yet hilarious possible scenarios.

Even though the senior boys may seem like rivals fighting for the twelve seats in the team, nothing will break the long-lasting friendship built throughout this school year.

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