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our first soccer game

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My team has our first soccer game today, against Nordoff varsity. I think most of their varsity from last year graduated, so hopefully, we won’t get absolutely obliterated. I’m trying to keep an open mind, but I just don’t think we’re very united as a team yet. I’ll update you after the game…

Ok, so we had the game yesterday. I started in center back. Things did not go so well, we ended up losing I think 0-9. After half-time, the team did feel more unified though. Ava and Akyra were moved to the defense to protect the goal I was a striker and Delaney was center mid. We worked together pretty well and got a few shots on their goal. Unfortunately, none of them made it in. The team just needs to figure out how we work together. It always sucks losing but since it was our first game and it was agist Nordoff varsity I’m not surprised which takes the edge off of the loss a little bit. Hopefully, we will win at least one of our three games next week.

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Basketball

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With the changes in the basketball schedule we will be back playing in the Newbury Tournament. It will be a week long with 3 games on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. The games are right after thanksgiving break. Which is why we should keep condition ourselves during the break. We entered quarter finals last year therefore I hope we can go to the finals this time, with the new coach and new systems. I believe we will be ready for the upcoming season with the more organized basketball program this year. These three games will be important for us since it can affect our stats for the rest of the season. If we start out the season with winning it can give the team more confidence in the games for the rest of the season. During practice recently we have been practicing running the plays that we have learned so far including two defensive plays and 3 offensive plays. the practices recently has been more fun finally since we started running scrimmages in practices instead of just drills and conditioning.

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Basketball

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In this winter basketball season we will have 13 games, all away games. In recent practices we have been working on our offensive game plays. Coach has introduced us new plays such as Duke and Princeton. Duke is when the 1 calls for a high pick and roll on the court with the wings and 4 staying at their positions, 2 at the wings and 1 at the free throw line. Princeton is when the 1 will call Princeton high on the court with 4 players stacking from the left wing all the way to the right wing. It will require paying lots of attention during the games because Princeton can be used in different forms such as inside screen into an easy layup, or pass and cut to dish to the player on the top to get a wide open 3. However, with all these games finally scheduled we are still working on getting an indoor basketball gym to host 1 or 2 home games excluding CIF playoffs. This will be another exciting season with the new coach, new system, and new games. We are in hope of returning to playoffs this year.

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school and soccer

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Okay so I think I was right about soccer, riding and school being too much. I have been feeling so run down lately and I literally have no time to do anything. I also just sprained my ankle at soccer so now I might not be able to ride or do soccer but I’m pretty sure I still have to go to practices and just sit there. Hopefully that will make it easier for me to catch up on school. It is so weird because for the first month of school I felt like I had no work to do and now it feels like it just doesn’t stop. But if I don’t practice then I won’t be playing in our games next week and seriously hate just sitting and watching my team lose and not being able to help. I also have  a feeling we’re going to get a lot of fouls because I don’t think most of the tema know how to do a throw-in or what offsides is. I’m praying we don’t get obliterated by nordoff. 

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Basketball

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Basketball season started this Tuesday. The new coach has started the season with meetings and talks about his past coaching career and what we are going to be working on in the future to be a better team. Last year we gave up too many points because of defensive breakdowns and miscommunication. We gave up around 20-30 points in the first half last year. During the practices this week we have been working on conditioning and defensive game plans. We have been introduced to new gameplays such as 23-jump, 3-2 zone, and 2-3zone. They are all zone defense that we will be using in future games. The new coach seems to have more coaching experience and knows what he is doing. I hope this season we can go undefeated and get back to the CIF playoffs again. Since there is not that much time left too because as a junior in high school there are only 2 years left.

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first comp

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This weekend is my first riding competition of the season. I’ve moved up a level since last season and I am a little nervous. I’ve only actually done my whole dressage test like .75 times because I never got to finish it since Cara started getting spooky at the end. I think i have it memorized but to be honest i’m not totally sure that the test I have memorized is the actual test… Okay update while writing this I decided to look at the test and I do have it correctly memorized. But I don’t have much time to practice because I’m only officially scheduled to ride twice this week but I think I’m going to be able to get some extra time in. i really like the new trainer Katrine, she’s pretty easy to schedule with and gives very in depth instructions. The only hard thing is that her and the old trainer George have some different teaching styles so sometimes one will ask you to do something while the other asks for the complete opposite. it can get confusing sometimes. Well that’s all, wish me luck!

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Weekend

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This weekend was a long weekend with 4 days off because of family weekend. I started each day with running pie everyday to get in shape with an average pace of 8 minutes per mile and the total time of 22 minutes. There weren’t that many trips this weekend besides the collection on Saturday night and Universal Studios on Monday. On Friday I watched the World Series with a few friends. Freddie Freeman’s walk-off was crazy. It was a really relaxing weekend. I finally got a good rest and am getting ready for the school next week. On Saturday we went to Dick’s sporting goods to get some basketball equipment such as compression shorts and KT tape for my knee. We also got some golf stuff like the new released Taylor-made golf balls, TP5X. We went to get food at the Korean barbecue place for dinner afterwards. Today we went to Universal Studios, we went on most of the main rides except Jurassic park because it was closed. However, It was a fun trip especially with all my friends together too.

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soccer

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I’ve been thinking about starting soccer. I played pretty much my whole life and I miss it. The whole reason I quit gymnastics is because I didn’t think I would have time or energy to do two sports. Especially after school games and leaving class early for games I’m a little worried I wont be able to keep up. Don’t get me wrong I love soccer and I love riding but I think it will also feel like i’m not a whole part of the team either because I will have to miss some practices and maybe even games for riding because that will be my priority. I think I’m still going to do it anyways though because cross training has always helped me in riding and gymnastics. I also heard that we have 3 games our second week of practice which sucks because I won’t even be there for our first week of practice which is this week. So I might die but wish me luck.

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Football

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We finished the football season with a bad loss to the first seed team in our league. Due to my injury, I finally recovered the day before the game. I was not able to be in the starting lineup because I missed 2 weeks of practice. Anyways, I got back in the game during the first half, at 4 minutes. I then played the rest of the game as the cornerback. I had multiple tackles but no picks or interceptions. After the first half the score was already 35-0. I tried to keep working with a few teammates, but I could tell most of the people already gave up after the first half. It seems like they do not care about the game at all. I cared about this particular game not just because I had a great performance during the first half, but also because It is the last game for the seniors. The last game to play with them. However, it was a great season overall. Although we didn’t finish the season with a good record, I did have lots of fun with the team in these 2 months.

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Football

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We finally got our first win against pilgrim on Wednesday. Although I didn’t play due to a swollen knee, it was a really close game, a little too close. The score was 27-26. There were a few freshmen that finally got their first playing time and starting time. There were some great passes and rushes from them. In my opinion, Pilgrim is not a good team therefore we should’ve defeated them. We have our last game next Tuesday against a team that is in 1st place in our league. However, I do feel confident about it with all of the practices and experiences during the 5 league games. It will be a tough game but we do have a chance against them. I believe all the injured players will be back in action therefore we will definitely be ready to play against Beacon Hill on Tuesday. We’re currently 1-4 in record hopefully we will end the season with at least 2 wins.

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