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Basketball Or Cross Country?

Which one should I choose basketball or cross country

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High school was great, I enjoyed having a place in my school community. I made some good friends, joined the cross country, basketball and softball team. My friends always thought I had no life because I was so involved in so many extracurricular activities. They never understood my reasons.

When I first moved to America from Haiti, I was a sophomore in high school. So when I started school, I did not want to lose focus and start failing my classes; I decided to do my work and stay away from extracurricular activities in school. However, that was a big mistake; I wish I had joined sooner because by the time I got to my senior year, I regretted everything. Junior year arrived and I decided to stay out of my house as much as I can. I have spent all my sophomore year at home doing homework and being bored every day. I wanted it to stop, I wanted to see if I can be involved and keep my grades up at the same time. So I joined the cross-country team in the fall and the basketball team in the winter. It was my first time being in a team and I loved it. So senior year, I was in both the basketball and cross country team, then I decided to join the softball team. What a great way to end my high school career! With being the captain of the basketball team, a great runner, a softball player, a member of the show choir and national honor society; I had no time to be bored or stay at home with nothing to do. I had no time to waste, with homework, college applications, SAT and keeping my grades up; I was a model for my friends. All of them wanted to be like me.

Now, I am done with high school and going to college. I know that I cannot stop being involved, but I am afraid that everything will be a complete disaster and not being able to manage my life as I used to do in high school. I want to do a sport and apparently I do not know if I can handle both sports that I love with my major. I do not know what to do, should I pick one or do both. I mean I love playing basketball that is what made me the captain of the team. I cannot see myself not playing basketball for four years, that would be a big mistake and I do not want that to happen. The only thing that is scaring me is that I do not want to fail because I am going to try out for the team; suddenly a lot of questions have come to my mind. Am I going to make the team? Am I going to be able to manage everything? All of these questions without answers are scaring me and making me doubting about being involved in school. I also love running, it makes me feel free and happy. I cannot choose between them and making a choice would be really hard for me, I do not want that. So I'm considering trying to do both and see what happens. If it doesn't turn out the way I wanted, I will not give up but I will keep going and do my best.

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