Rewarding Moments

There have been many moments in my life where I have experienced my hard work being rewarded. There are three instances that have seemed to me to be the most important.  The first instance is during my eighth grade year when our basketball team beat Holgate in the GMC championship game. Our whole team was very close and never missed practices. We worked on and off the court together and put in many hours to make ourselves better. Winning the GMC championship game really showed the team how much our hard work paid off. The second instance occurred my senior year in high school with my softball team.  There were eight seniors on the team including me. We had been through so much during our high school softball career. We were a tight knit group as we all played spring, softball, a little bit of fall softball together. I had been a catcher ever since I was in Pee Wee softball. Once I got into high school I had to out play other girls for my position and I worked day in and day out to achieve my goal of being on varsity. All of my grade of girls had gained varsity positions at the beginning of high school.  We all just clicked on the field and worked very well together after the many years of playing with each other. We were pretty decent for our freshmen, sophomore, and junior years, but our senior year is when we brought our best. We made a run in the tournament and beat the school record for most wins in a softball season. Also during our season we, a division III team, beat the undefeated first place division II team, Greenville, which had won state two out of the past three years. We lost at districts but were very proud of our season.  We knew our hard work since elementary school had gotten us to where we were.  My last notable time of my hard work paying off is this past summer at the county fair. I had been taking dairy steers for around eight years and had practiced walking, showing, and fitting these steers to perfection.  My years of work finally paid off last year as I won first place in Senior Dairy Beef Showmanship, second in Overall Senior Showmanship, and Grand Champion Dairy Steer. Taking care of my steers is one of my favorite things to do and seeing a good thing happen after waiting for many years was very thrilling.