Wildcard: Bowling

I have always been interested in sports throughout my entire life.  I have played soccer since I was five and I played just about every sport known to man.  From baseball, tennis, roller hockey, and basketball I did them all.  When I was little my mom would drive me from one practice to the next and I loved every second of it.  Unfortunately, as I grew up and the sports became more serious I had to choose one that I wanted to stick with.  I chose soccer to become my main sport and I slowly dropped the other ones.  
I still played softball and basketball once I got to middle school because I enjoyed the sports, but soccer always came first.  I was always on the top travel teams and we would travel for tournaments and games all over New Jersey and the East Coast.  I loved the competitiveness that sports gave me and I loved the feeling of winning.  I always loved gym and took every game I ever played seriously.  
As I got into high school and soccer got even more serious I struggled through the winter of my freshman year playing basketball.  I was not as good as I had been at basketball and it was too much of a commitment with soccer.  My sophomore year I knew I was not going to play basketball, and Mr. Ardise convinced me to join the bowling team.  Bowling was only three times a week and it was extremely laid back.  I remember the first day of tryouts and there were forty girls trying out for a ten person team.  I was nervous that I was going to get cut, but somehow I made it and it was the start to my bowling career.  
I swore that I would do bowling just for fun, especially since I had never bowled before, but the competitiveness came out in me and I became really serious with it.  I ended up getting my own bowling ball and Coach Ardise taught me how to hook the ball perfectly so all the pins would fall down.  It turns out I made varsity my sophomore year and had a very successful season.  
In the past three years I have really enjoyed bowling and it has really given me a different perspective on sports.  In all the sports I was exposed to the other team was the enemy and I wanted to tear them apart, but in bowling everyone is friends.  We would laugh and joke with the opposing teams and I even made a lot of new friends through bowling.  Bowling was so laid back that you could go and get a sandwich in the middle of a match.  It was completely different than any other sporting event I had ever been too, but it was relaxed and exactly what I needed.  Although it was laid back my team and I still took it seriously.  We won B-South for the past six years and this year I even finished in the top 5 bowlers in B-South.  I never in a million years thought I would join the bowling team, but it turned out to be one of my most memorable experiences throughout high school and it made me realize that not all sporting events are as cut throat and aggressive as soccer.