It’s the morning of October 17th, the first day of basketball season. Our “fitness test” starts at 2:00 and I find myself awake and ready to go at 7:30 in the morning. I can’t wake up for my 9:30 class, yet I am awake at 7:30 and I’m freaking out!!
Today is the first day of our try-outs or fitness test. We never had a “fitness test” before so no one knows what to expect. We all had to run the mile before but after that we usually end up going into the gym, but coach informed us that “we should leave our basketball shoes in our lockers” aka we would be running for the full 2 hours today.
Never in a million years, would we imagine, that we would not only be running ladders, shuttle runs, doing what felt like an hour worth of abs but we would be on all fours barking like dogs in a game of capture the flag.
So its now 1:45 and we are all stretching thinking about other things we would rather be doing besides getting ready to go through our worst nightmare, the mile. Some of us preferred plucking our eyes out, taking multiple tests, even hanging out with Kat Jax for a whole entire day! (WOOF!) But 15 minutes later we all sucked it up and ran it, and man did we run it well. I have to say, Margaret and Katarina looked like they needed a trashcan, but hey they made it.. and that’s what matters.
Next on the agenda was every type of ab work you can possibly think of followed by ladders, cones and shuttle runs.
We finished off with the competitive game of capture the flag, and not to brag but my team (dream team) took the win on that. Though we had the win and of course the good looks, the other team had great strategy that involved charging and at one point barking like dogs.
The next few days weren’t as rough, though our legs and abs probably wouldn’t agree. It was all worth it when I was sitting in my meeting with Coach Donohue and he told me that I made the team. I was so happy that I went sprinting through the Dufour center screaming with joy.
-Mary Hagaman
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