Terrific Tennis Incoming Having the opportunity to play for the Lake Forest tennis team was probably the best experience I could have ever had progressing into high school as a freshman. Meeting so many new freshmen and sophomores who share the same love for tennis was such a great way to make new friends to start out the school year with. Playing tennis with these newly made friends was so much fun, and doing it everyday helped me improve on my game as well. It also helped me build confidence socially. Being able to talk to the four sophomores on the team really helped me establish a good perspective on what the high school was going to be like, and learn that it is not as scary as it is made out to be. Tryouts were the hardest part of the whole process. They started bright and early at eight am and went till eleven. It was so early when you arrived, that it was actually cold outside for the first half hour or so. The first hour was all conditioning which included running a mile, running the bleachers, footwork, core work, and or leg work. Then the next two hours were actual playing time. Both of these things were quite brutal considering we were all doing this under the beaming hot sun, but it helped having a bunch of nice faces cheering you on while doing everything. I arrived each day sore …show more content…
All of the match scores were very close, and so was the overall score. I was playing with my teammate Alisa, and we were playing very well, although the score of our match was always tied, winning, or losing by one point. We eventually made it into a tie breaker which made my heart beat faster than it already was, which I did not think was possible. All of the suspense almost got to the both of us, but we pulled through and won! The good thing about Alisa and I winning our match was that we put our team in position of winning the match as a