March Madness! March Madness! March Madness!
Many of you may not understand this time of the year and many of you may, but for college athletes its very important to say the least! Sadly both my lady-vols and vols are done with their seasons, (both came up short but had a good run in the tourney) but I still have one team I am cheering for which is Loyola-Chicago! The NCAA tournament is what each team more than likely works their entire season to be in.The more games you win, the tougher your opponents are, the higher seed in this NCAA tournament you will get. Therefore making it easier for you to advance on to the next levels. There’s even an entire selection show just for college’s to find out where they get placed and what seed they get. Only a few are chosen, and some are missed out on unfortunately (I think the basketball world is politics as well). Some teams take their opponent for granted when they see whom they are matched up against and hence comes forth upsets. Many upsets and bracket busters. The key to winning the NCAA tournament in its entirety or at least making it to the final four (although every level you make it too, first-round, second-round, sweet-sixteen, elite-eight, final-four,etc.. is an important accomplishment) is to never under-estimate your opponent, don’t let up, or take any team for granted because you never know what will happen. My post college coach use to tell me, you never know what the basketball gods will be up to during each game so it’s best just to go out there and play your best and do what you can, that way you know you left it out there, everything you had on the court, no regrets.
But my reason for writing this blog is to bring forth the importance of team sports. The Ulster Elks have a Champions Trophy Final coming up which will end our season with just having Varsities left. It’s gonna take our entire team to win. I’m very excited and words cannot express the excitement actually, whether we win or lose I’m very appreciative of being apart of this squad, I’ve gained a group of sisters and bond that I will never forget. Each one of them with there different personalities just makes every training and game that much more fun or good craic as they would say. I have learned how to adjust my game in ways I thought was not even possible, and it’s just been an all around good experience to say the least. Wish us luck and hopefully the next blog I am writing about will be a victory blog giving you an update and how things went.
