Through the past few months, I played basketball with the school coaches in the U19 basketball team. Below are my reflections on the learning objectives I set myself at the beginning of the year.

#LO2 Challenge: I constantly challenge my boundaries through the last few months’ training. In my recent training, I asked my coach how far I have made since the beginning of the year, he said: “You progressed a lot, although some techniques and forms still need to be improved, well done.” I always challenge myself through actively pairing up with people that have more experience than me during group games.

#LO4 Commitment: Basketball is a sport that I am passionate about and I have committed to this sport since middle school. During the past months, I have participated in every training available, as well as playing basketball with my friends casually outside of training times. And I believe that casual basketball games are times when I can use the skills I learned during training to develop them further as well as putting them into practice.

#LO5 Collaboration: Basketball exercised my collaboration skills. During training, I realized I have been communicating and collaborating more with my teammates. Basketball is a team sport that needs a lot of communication and collaboration. During our attacks and defences, I began to use hand signals as well as verbal expressions to inform my teammates/trick opponents to the direction I am passing the ball to. Recently, I realized my passes, receives, attacks, and defences have been much smoother than what they used to be.