Personal Narrative: My High School Basketball Team

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What is a team? My answer to that question changed over my high school basketball career. To me a team is a unified group of people that are willing to fight for each other as if it were his own family. High school basketball taught me that a couple strangers can come together and form a bonds that will last a life time. During my first 2 years at Ygnacio Valley High School, I had played basketball for our school in a system that had never really succeeded at creating a unified team. We had players that lacked the knowledge of what it meant to be committed to a team. But going into my junior year we lost our varsity head coach and the entire coaching staff. A new coach was hired to turn our program around. This new head coach happened to be
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