Personal Narrative: Coach Leake

A person that has helped me grow into the man I am today is my high school baseball coach Steve Leake. From the first day I stepped on the diamond he saw something in me that nobody except my grandfather had told seen. The four years that Coach Leake and I spent together trying to capture the schools first state championship ring were some of the greatest seasons I ever played. As a new school year began I made the decision to go to a different school for high school.I began lost on that first day, but it became easier when I noticed a flyer on one of the many colorful boards around the school.The blood red and black flyer was for fall baseball tryouts something that I know I can make friends at easliy.So the next day after school I walk …show more content…
"Well Josh our boys played well and gave everything they had.But one thing we need to work on is our sliding, some of the guys are not dirty enough for my likening." He said with a jolly laugh at the end.
After this game some the team started to strut around like peacocks with their colorful tail feathers spread out.We came crashing down two games later when we lost our first game in the season.Coach Leake let us have it at practice when we had to do conditioning with the distance runners on the track team.We did it as a team with no complaints because it is the way that teams work even though the players that were strutting around did not play as often as others.After we finished the running coach called the end of practice and gave us a ultimatum.
"So guys we have two weeks until the district tournament and I am going to give you two options on how we are going to prepare."He said with me being weary of his next statement.
"Option one we end practice conditioning with the track team everyday or option two you guys have to come to school early twice a week to do conditioning with me."This was a hard choice with players throwing out what they wanted which was dividing the team.I ended up telling everyone to be