Last year for my sophomore year, my sister and I joined the ISK tennis team tryouts and made the junior varsity, we were 12 players in total and practiced 3 times a week. Luckily I made it to the Ethiopia Tennis Tournament IITT in November last year and ISK girls came first. Because I have been playing tennis for over 5 years now in and out of school and because it is my favorite sport, I decided to join the team tryouts this year.
This year, there was tryouts for about a week and a half every day. There were 30 players trying out and only 20 would make either one of the 2 varsity teams. In the middle of the tryouts they separated us into 2 groups and fortunately I was in the better group. And now, I am so happy that I made it in the Blue varsity team which is the A team at IS. We practice 4 times a week either morning of after school: Mondays and Thursdays from 3:30 until 4:40, and Tuesday and Fridays from 6:50 until 8:00, which is really hard work because I am an IB student.
There are 10 players in my team, half girls and half boys. We haven't played any games yet, but I am really looking forward to it. I hope to be a better and more fit player by the end of the season, which is unfortunately in December, and really have fun and enjoy every practice and game! And also one of my goals would be to be able to go to Ethiopia again this year for the tournament and play single or double matches against the other East African school teams.
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