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High School Soccer Case Study

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The inside of the bus was hot and dusty and had the bitter, stale smell only sweat has. This was only because, this was the bus that the West Sioux High School Varsity Boys Soccer Team was approaching the Iowa State Tournament with, or so thought Felipe every time he got on a bus. Felipe had always fantasized about going to State sense he was young, and watching his brother lose the game decided if they went to State or not twice. Felipe always had goals to start in high school soccer sense he was in the elementary. Felipe had never done something were he didn’t do his absolute best, even when he wasn’t the best or even good at what he was doing he still did his best. Felipe had always dreamed about getting to score the winning goal, but first he knew that he had to get a team that wanted to work as hard as he did to even go to State. Felipe was happy to have won his last wrestling match for his season, but he was also cause he couldn’t wait to start his first season of high school soccer. Felipe still knew that he had to wait 3 weeks till his soccer season actually …show more content…

Before they knew it their first game had come. Felipe’s dream had come true he got to start as a left middle, he was very ecstatic but he knew that he had earned that spot by working his best in every practice. By the half of their first game they were down by 2 it was 3 to. Felipe was very mad and so was his coach cause he knew like the rest of them that they could do better. They came back out and took it to the other team and got them selfs a win for the books. At the end it was 5 to 3. Their next games came and as a team they took everything they had and it payed off course for their regular season they came out as undefeated falcons. The games that determined if they went to state or not where in a week and they had to get ready cause they did’t want to be like the last two years where they got so close but ended up

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