{"id":4573,"date":"2019-10-01T03:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2019-10-01T03:24:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:24:59","slug":"softball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Softball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Softball is very similar to baseball. Even though sports is not my favourite thing to do, I decided to join the Varsity Softball team during spring to get an experience of being part of a team on my exchange.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L1 &#8211; Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I discovered my strengths and weaknesses<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through this sport. I had good coordination and speed but the major drawbacks were that I was new to the sport and was very nervous. Not surprisingly, all of CAS activities made me realise that I had similar weaknesses for all of them. I want to overcome these drawbacks by continuing such activities throughout my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L4-commitment to and perseverance<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commitment and perseverance were a crucial part of my softball experience. We had practice every day after school. It was very difficult to remain committed and focused because I was also a part of my high school musical which had rehearsals everyday as well. I had to try to find rides everyday and if I didn\u2019t find them, I had to walk even when it was snowing as it was a particularly long winter and bad weather for softball.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L2 &#8211; Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken developing new skills<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though I faced so many challenges, I still wanted to continue this sport since I loved learning this new sport, and loved my team and coach. I developed new skills<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as I had never played such a sport before. I played with a bat for the first time in my life but my friends said I got much better at it over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L5- Demonstrate skills and benefits of working collaboratively<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also became very good friends with my teammates through softball. In any sport, a lot of collaboration<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is required amongst the teammates which makes the team stronger. We all knew each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses and we accepted and respected each other for who we were. Even if anyone made a mistake, we didn\u2019t discourage her, instead we cheered her up to do well next time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L7-Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethics<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are also very important when it comes to sports. We are expected to abide by the rules of the sport. Our team lost a lot of games since our main pitcher was injured. But we knew it was ethical to show sportsmanship and congratulate the winning team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m glad I was a part of the Varsity Softball team. It taught me to respect everyone. It also made me open minded, balanced and a risk taker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4574\" src=\"http:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.52-PM-300x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.52-PM-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.52-PM-768x561.png 768w, https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.52-PM.png 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4575\" src=\"http:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.26-PM-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.26-PM-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.26-PM-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-07-27-at-4.08.26-PM.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softball is very similar to baseball. Even though sports is not my favourite thing to do, I decided to join the Varsity Softball team during spring to get an experience of being part of a team on my exchange.\u00a0 &nbsp; L1 &#8211; Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth &nbsp; I discovered my strengths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarohi-agrawal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classof2020.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}