So when your on a sport's team, it's basically like a family. And, when your on a team that is relatively small, it's even more like a family. I play soccer, and we only have 12 girls on our team, which isn't a lot but it's the bare minium. So are soccer team is only made up of 12 girls, when all the other teams have 16-20 girls. But with our team being so small, we are like a family.
But anyways, our coach was talking about, how with how small of a team we have, it's family. We see the same people, everyday, 5 days a week from 3:40 till 5:30. We see each other a lot, and we all go to school together also, so we see each other even more. When you have a team, for whichever sport, and it's somewhat small, or even as small as ours, everyone has to get along. When everyone is friends with everybody else, and we all get along, then we are a T-E-A-M. To function and play like a team, you have to get along, don't fight with people, etc.
Our coach kept telling us, how after today, everyone is gonna have a clean slate. We all had opportunties to tell everyone is something was up or anything. But with how close we all have gotten this year, we didn't have that many problems. he even pulled out each person one at a time during practice to talk to us. We could tell him if everything was up, or if we had problems, with him or another team mate. The reason he pulled us aside, was because he heard that people on the team are talking behind people's backs, and not just at practice, but at school. He doesn't want that, because then all of us aren't going to play like a team. I think that is true. We can't be taking all this drama to school, and then taking it into pratice.I thing that was a good idea on his part, beause we have regionals coming up, which means to play as a team even more, we all have to get along, with no problems, drama, or tension between us.
My point after all this, is that, there's no I in T-E-A-M. A team is EVERYONE. Everyone gets along with each other, everyone is friends, and everyone helps other people out if they are having a hard time with something.
**Act like a team. Play like a team, and BE A TEAM!**
