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Personal Narrative: Playing Tennis For Creekside Middle School

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Throughout playing tennis for Creekside Middle School, I have faced lots of success. I played varsity all three years there, and during my sixth grade year, helped my team win the annual county tournament between middle schools. Though I was successful for many of my matches, I did met with failure at times. One of these times would be in my seventh grade year, when my doubles partner and I had lost in the final round of the tournament. This defeat would be one of the reasons that led the Creekside tennis team placing outside of the top three at the county tournament. My doubles partner and I had just had won the toughest match we had ever played in the previous round of the tournament.We defeated our opponents in a thrilling comeback after
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