Author’s Note: Most athletes like to skip the practice and go straight to the games. But what they don’t realize is how important they actually are. Learning the basics is the key to success in anything you do.
Basketball is more than just a sport to our team. We put 100% into everything; games, practice and scrimmages. We are 10 girls, 3 coaches, together we are an unstoppable force as through the years our team has progressed through team development, our coaching staff, and learning the fundamentals of this spectacular game.
On and off the court we are a team. Most importantly, teamwork to means to me that we will work together, learn together and be successful together. No matter what the situation , we work together. Our success over the three seasons comes from the tremendous amount teamwork. Over the three years we have played on the Pewaukee Basketball Club team we have won 118 games and lost 16.
Our accomplishment would not be a reality without our coaches commitment and knowledge level of this game. They have helped up realize the respect to have for our teammates, ourselves, and them. They have a thorough knowledge of the game and have shown us the fundamentals. Our skills have improved also through these fundamentals and they have shown us the next levels of the game.
The fundamentals that our coaches have taught us has helped us grow from both as an individual and team standpoint. Ever since the first practice we have worked on how to pass the ball with our thumbs down, dribble with our head up, shoot the ball with our elbow in, stay low or defense, and pivot, so we don’t travel. All of these things have helped our team be so successful and help us continue to improve on our skills.
In all of the years we played together I would have never guessed that these simple but very important tasks would be the key to our victory. Knowing that in the beginning it was so difficult, to now we know the basics and are working to keep the knowledge we have and progress our skills with the help of our coaches and everyone supporting us, it is much easier to be where we are today.
