By: Lindsay Garland
What is basketball? The popular sport in its simplest form, is throwing a leather ball in mesh to score more baskets than the other team. Basketball is played at so many skill levels from youth club, to university, to internationally for your country, to professionally! Whatever level you watch or play at, they all carry universal values and lessons no matter where you decide to participate! However, if you ask anyone that plays basketball at any skill level, any age, gender, or race that resides in the positions of player, coach or parent, basketball is a lot more and means a lot more then putting a ball through an orange cylinder.
Firstly, if you ask a player, your goal is to grow your skill, get your body in game shape, and do whatever the team needs to get the win! Secondly, to a coach, we aspire to teach life lessons through the popular game we love! On offense, we inspire the creation of confidence in our athlete’s abilities. On defense, we push them to bend their knees, get their hands up, and lock down so our players understand they can be great in any environment they choose to step in. Finally, through fitness, coaches lead players to their potential so they can take those learned skills with them for the rest of their lives. Thirdly, if you ask a parent of a player, it’s witnessing the growth of their resident athlete! Because of the game of basketball, parents have the pleasure of watching their child grow socially through cultivated friendships, physically with their skills and abilities, as well as mentally and emotionally creating strength within themselves.
However, if you ask us at 709 basketball what the sport means to us, it’s a sense of community. To the staff and coaches of 709 we facilitate community, recreation and elite training all mixed up in one fun athletic salad! We wish to inspire respect, fun, and hard work into the community we have created with our favorite sport! Therefore, if you ask any of our staff what does basketball mean to us? It’s playing together, learning together, and inspiring a new generation of players, coaches and parents together! That’s what basketball means to us.
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