These practices passed with progress, but not much. Although we were very much excited to be travelling as a team elsewhere to compete, we really didn't have high hopes on 'winning' the tournament. However, the energy made it clear that every single member would truly give it their all.
During the two days of competition there, we played six games - losing two, and winning the rest which finally placed us in second place in the tournament overall!
It was a really important experience for us as a team, in my opinion, and we definitely grew from the way events unfolded during matches (and in between!) Our first game, we were obviously full of nerves but really were motivated to do well and the game finished with our team, the ISP Panthers, one point behind - one point, not one basket (equivalent two points)! On the first day of games, we had to play three matches, one after the other - as I said, we lost the first, won the second (which got our hopes really high!) but were later crushed as we lost our final game by a MILE. I think this was a combination of outside forces (we did not agree with the judges, and it was against the Home team which meant htat their entire school was supporting them and so our morale was low) and great exhaustion. The rest of our matches however, I'm happy to say, we won by a significant amount. :)
Basketball season is now coming to end but unfortunately I have not been able to play as much as before due to a back injury. Below are some photos from practices and the tournament.
Total 'Action' hours completed for Basketball? 20 hours (plus!)
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