More Than a Game

ADM girls basketball faces another season as we enter winter of 2015. For years, the school newspaper has been writing about the team, discussing mostly their stats, star players and important games.

However, an important aspect of the sport has been neglected. The team more than just a group of girls. They are more than a team.  They are a family.

Attending any girls basketball game it is easy to see the payoffs of the hard work put in during grueling morning as well as afternoon practices. While it is no lie that basketball is a physically demanding sport, we must not forget the mental aspect.

Molly Jacobsen and Brianna Mueller, two of the team’s seniors and basketball veterans, claim a side of the sport often goes unnoticed.

“I think basketball has taught me a lot about being strong not only physically but mentally,” said Jacobsen. She refers to basketball as more than a sport, as a place where she has grown and developed her mind as well as her skills on the court.

Mueller is a well-known and treasured member of the ADM girls track team. However, she feels differently about running the track than she does while playing the court.

“For me basketball is the most fun because I get to be playing with a team and it’s taught me what it means to put the team before yourself sometimes,” said Mueller.

Walking past the gyms after school one can hear the squeak of basketball shoes and the sound of running feet doing warmups, but the sounds of laughter and conversations can also be heard.

The inanimate objects–the shoes, the basketballs–are the sound of training. The laughter, the jokes, the conversations–these are the sounds of girls becoming one. The sound of a bond being formed, and a sisterhood being forged.