The spring of my freshman year of high school, an opportunity that would greatly change me and my life as a whole fell out of the sky-- literally. The fifth period bell had just rung and I was on my way to the lunch tables to eat lunch and hang out with my friends. I navigated my way around the clusters of kids crowding the hall, when suddenly the six-foot tall star of the basketball team bumped me and sent me flying into a wall. I rubbed my head and was regaining myself, when suddenly, a flyer came drifting down from the sky and landed next to me on the floor. I picked it up and was about to throw it away, when I realized what it said: “Girls Lacrosse Tryouts- Tuesday after school”. I had always been an athletic girl, but it was my first year at this school and I had yet to prove my athletic abilities. Besides, I wasn’t exactly a social butterfly and I desperately wanted to establish myself a little better with my peers. I stashed away the flyer and went on the rest of the day.

That night, I thought about what a new sport could do for me. It would help me meet new friends and it could be a challenge (I never back down from a challenge). I decided to go for it. Tryouts came and went, and to my surprise, I picked up the game fast and made the team.

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