A time where I succeeded in the face of setbacks is during my senior year of basketball. It started at the end of the season my junior year when we lost five very good players because they graduate. One of those five players that graduated played the same position as me, and always played so I rarely ever played. Once they graduated people told me I was never going to be able to be as good as the kid who graduated before me and replace him. It really made me mad and I told myself that is not true. At the end of the season, we had player evaluations with the coach where I told him, “I was going to work my butt to make it seem like we never lost the player from last year.” So that summer and fall I worked my butt off. I was lifting every day