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The document discusses the author's experience playing basketball in high school tournaments. It describes how the author's junior year team fell short of winning tournaments and he did not get much playing time. His senior year team intended to rectify this by making the most of their opportunities at tournaments. At the Thacher tournament, they started strong with a blowout victory in their first game. Their second game had some adversity but they still won. In the final game against the host school Thacher, the game was close throughout but they gained momentum late and secured crucial stops to win the championship. The author was elated and the team enjoyed celebrating on the ride home, knowing they would never have another experience quite like it.

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The document discusses the author's experience playing basketball in high school tournaments. It describes how the author's junior year team fell short of winning tournaments and he did not get much playing time. His senior year team intended to rectify this by making the most of their opportunities at tournaments. At the Thacher tournament, they started strong with a blowout victory in their first game. Their second game had some adversity but they still won. In the final game against the host school Thacher, the game was close throughout but they gained momentum late and secured crucial stops to win the championship. The author was elated and the team enjoyed celebrating on the ride home, knowing they would never have another experience quite like it.

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Brandon Alvarado

Professor Encinias

CAS 115

November 21, 2023

Thacher

Basketball is a world renowned sport, that for a lot of people is their pride and joy, it is

where they can find happiness even when life is upside down. While I never had that relationship

with the sport, I certainly did have quite the affection for it. It dorve me to become better, not just

a better player but a better person. It also gave me the simple opportunity to play a game with my

friends that we all enjoyed for fun. Getting out of class early was also a great perk as well, haha.

You would get to experience all that in these tournaments which were wrapped into several days

of competition. During my time at Malibu we never had the greatest experience while at

tournaments, junior year we had opportunities to bring back tournaments trophies and glory but

fell short and I didn’t get that much playing time. Senior year we intended to change that and

make most of the opportunity when it presented itself. The Thacher tournament was one example

of not making the most of the oppotuniets the previous year. It isn’t that fun when you lose to a

team you are supposed to beat and your coach tells you of his disappointment. That was in the

back of the mind of everyone on the team that played last year. To rectify last year and we started

really well, my teammate drilled 11 3-pointers on route to a blowout victory. Next game we had

a little adversity however we ame out on top. The last game was special, it was against the host

school Thacher. They were a solid team, it was neck and neck back and forth for pretty much the

entire game. However towards the end we managed to gain momentum and get crucial stops

when we needed to. When the buzzer sounded I lept for joy, we had accomplished our goal and
won the tournament championship. The ride home we sang, laughed and stayed in the moment,

we would never have another one like it, so we couldn’t take it for granted. Luckily the

tournament trophy will always be there as a reminder.

The famed teams itself lifting the plaque and looking good doing, if I do say so myself.

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