I'm zooming over the field and no one can catch me. The crowd is cheering
so loudly, its almost deafening. I blow past the fullbacks and the
sweeper. All that's left between me and the championship is the goalie. I
carefully take aim and slam the ball as hard as I can.perfect. The ball
blows past the goalie and crashes into the net.One tremendous roar escapes
from the crowd as all my teammates fly into the field and leap on top of me
screaming.
"Best game yet Tegan!"
"Wow!"
"That was unbelievable!"
All their words mesh together and I can't hear a coherant word.
The Smallville Mustangs had just beat their rivals, the Greenville Warriors 3-2 in the championship game. The crowd was still chanting Mustangs as the girls enter the locker room. After showering and changing, the coach comes in to give his usual post game review. He comes in not looking very pleased. Why can't he be happy with our performance? We won the league championship, we played our best game of the season and won him a nice shinny trophy. What more could we do for him that was legal?
"The easy part of the season is over.now we get to the hard part."
Oh man, not this old speech. Time for 3 hour a day Monday through Saturday practices, rain or shine.
"You know what we have to do now. We have to practice like we've never practiced before. I'm going to except better than your best. Practices will be after school for three hours and on Saturday mornings from nine to noon. I expect all of you to be there EARLY! We'll practice slide tackles and moving the ball. I want each of you to think of at least two plays for our next practice and they better be good ones. I'll see you all Monday. Have a good weekend."
Another amazing speech.
As everyone filed slowly out, I stayed behind. I don't like big crowds and everyone would want to congratulate the team. My friend Ashley also stayed behind.
"How did you run so fast out there? It was like one minute you had stolen the ball and the next you were shooting at the goalie."
"I dunno. I guess its all those extra hard practices coach has been preparing us with for two weeks."
"Whatever, but I've never seen anyone move that fast before. You were like a blur. What did you have for breakfast, rocket fuel or something?"
"Unless they've started making orange juice out of rocket fuel, than no."
"You need a ride to Jess's Party?"
"Nope, I just got my car back this morning."
"Alright, see you there."
"Bye."
"Best game yet Tegan!"
"Wow!"
"That was unbelievable!"
All their words mesh together and I can't hear a coherant word.
The Smallville Mustangs had just beat their rivals, the Greenville Warriors 3-2 in the championship game. The crowd was still chanting Mustangs as the girls enter the locker room. After showering and changing, the coach comes in to give his usual post game review. He comes in not looking very pleased. Why can't he be happy with our performance? We won the league championship, we played our best game of the season and won him a nice shinny trophy. What more could we do for him that was legal?
"The easy part of the season is over.now we get to the hard part."
Oh man, not this old speech. Time for 3 hour a day Monday through Saturday practices, rain or shine.
"You know what we have to do now. We have to practice like we've never practiced before. I'm going to except better than your best. Practices will be after school for three hours and on Saturday mornings from nine to noon. I expect all of you to be there EARLY! We'll practice slide tackles and moving the ball. I want each of you to think of at least two plays for our next practice and they better be good ones. I'll see you all Monday. Have a good weekend."
Another amazing speech.
As everyone filed slowly out, I stayed behind. I don't like big crowds and everyone would want to congratulate the team. My friend Ashley also stayed behind.
"How did you run so fast out there? It was like one minute you had stolen the ball and the next you were shooting at the goalie."
"I dunno. I guess its all those extra hard practices coach has been preparing us with for two weeks."
"Whatever, but I've never seen anyone move that fast before. You were like a blur. What did you have for breakfast, rocket fuel or something?"
"Unless they've started making orange juice out of rocket fuel, than no."
"You need a ride to Jess's Party?"
"Nope, I just got my car back this morning."
"Alright, see you there."
"Bye."
