How Moody Basketball Reshaped My Game
I've been in sports my whole life. This means that I have seen lots of courts, fields, ups/downs, opponents, and emotions. I'm a fairly emotive person so when sports are thrown into the mix, I celebrate big and I stew big. I remember basketball games in high school where I would beat myself up for not playing well, punch the seat of a chair after coach pulled me out of a game, or go home and talk about all the things I could have done better, even after games where we won. In my mind, opponents were opponents, rivals were rivals, and I am going to play as hard as I can. I got the incredible opportunity to play basketball at Moody (for most of my years there) and I had no idea what I was about to learn. The ball started rolling when I started my Sports Ministry classes. I began to learn that the person was way more important than the sport itself and that competition within itself was completely neutral; it's what you do with it that changes the view/de...