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Some may find it hard to understand why ending a sports season as a senior can be so emotional.

“As a freshman, sophomore and junior in high school I always saw seniors get so emotional after they played their last fall, spring or winter sport,” said senior Danielle Rafanan. “Now that I am a senior, I now understand what all those other seniors felt; I too have felt how hard it is to stop playing my favorite sport in high school.”

It is quite simple: in most cases when a senior is on a high school sports team they are on that team since their freshman year, meaning four years growing and learning with their other teammates and coach.

Not only do seniors spend four very important years bonding with a team, but they have to face that fact that this is most likely the last time they will play that sport, as well as play with those people, who at times can be their best friends.

“Throughout the years I have become very close to my soccer team and my soccer coach,” said senior Yesenia Samano. “They are people I will definitely keep in touch with long after high school is over.”

High school athletes are passionate about the sports they play and after all the years they have played a sport, they are suddenly forced to realize it is all quickly coming to an end, and it hurts.

“Cheering at my last basketball game really sucked,” said senior Alexandra Smith. “It was sad knowing I will never do a “sink it” again, I will never put on my cheer uniform to cheer at a basketball or football game again.

Not all high school seniors go off to play their favorite sport in college, so at their last home game they get to look up in the stands and see their fellow high school peers, parents and best friends cheering them on in their proud to call high school, for the last time.

The best feeling a high school athlete can get is when they do something positive in their game   and they can hear the crowed going wild with excitement and happiness. This special feeling along with everything else can suddenly be over at the end of a sport season.

“Hitting the winning shot is unlike any other feeling. All of your team work, everything that they have done comes down to that one moment, and being able to come through in that moment for your team makes all the work worth it,” said senior Erik Bartlett.

This heartbreaking feeling a high school senior gets happens to them in most cases, at least three times a year: fall, winter and spring.

When a senior thinks about all the games she has won, all the fun times she had with her team at McDonalds after an away game, that time her team successfully made it into playoffs, the time she didn't win, all the hard work she put into practice in order to get better, and the fact that no matter what that team worked as one and always had each other’s back. A senior usually has no other choice but to be emotional and be happy and sad at the same time.

“The moment we lost our playoff game, I couldn’t do anything but cry” said senior Andrea Rodriguez, “I cried because we should have won that game. I also cried because that was the last time I’m most likely ever going to play soccer.”

The tears that come form a high school senior’s eyes when it's all over, comes with the bittersweet feeling that a senior has to just get over it.

High school seniors just have to remember the memories they had with their sports teams, the good, the bad, and the ugly. In the end, it all leads to memories that will never be forgotten.

“The four years I played volleyball in high school have been awesome,” said senior Emily Fechner “although it’s sad it is all over, I am still happy with the fact I get to look back at all the volleyball memories I have.”

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0 #2 antonio martinez 2011-03-28 21:51

I am only a freshmen but I can see that people really do care about the sports that they play.

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+1 #1 Tommi Harlien 2011-03-04 18:28

Great article Sonia
Its so true but there will always be those memories

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