Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Welcome 🙏 to Emily Cook as we share our next Nugget from this rather impressive young Lady

1. It didn’t take long to see that the 2015 Varsity Softball team was something special. We were all out there playing for a purpose-with a purpose and worked so well together as a team. We put in hard work on and off the field. Many of us were going to hitting or pitching coaches in addition to a normal days practice. I feel that Coach Nester had high expectations for our team and helped ensure that we reached those expectations because he could see our potential and the greatness that we could accomplish as a team. We didn’t quit practicing plays until we had it right. I feel those expectations played a crucial factor in our success. We wanted to get each play right, we wanted to win, and we had the grit and confidence to do it. After our first few wins I knew this team was going somewhere. The crowds at our home field just kept getting bigger and bigger with each game, we had so much support from our community. A normal seasons worth of softball games later, that somewhere was the state championship.
2. One thing I will never forget is the feeling when that final out was recorded and the game was over. I remember being so overwhelmed with happiness, it almost didn’t seem real that we had won. I remember us all running towards the middle of the field, dropping our gloves, gathering together, screaming, jumping up and down, and hugging just completely ecstatic about what we had just accomplished. Looking back on this memory to this day it still gets me. I’m thankful to have been a part of this team.
3. It meant more to me than I can put into words. At the time, being a freshman, the gravity of what we had accomplished took a little while to fully sink in, I knew we had accomplished something so great, breaking records on our path. I was so proud and happy that all the hard work this team put in was seen and rewarded by us being able to fight to win the state championship. Looking back now as an adult, married with a teaching job, I am still as proud as I was back then. Our team was something special. Not everyone gets to experience being a part of a team that shares the same goals and works hard for themselves and eachother to accomplish those goals. I am thankful to have been able to wear that #13 for 4 Varsity years and proud to have been a part of this state championship team.

Now, there will be plenty of more from Emily Cook as we progress but these answers might help others…

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