LO 1 Identifying own strengths and develop areas for personal growth

LO 2 Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process

LO 5 Demonstrate the skills and recognise the benefits of working collaboratively

This year, the u19 season with a tinge of disappointment as our SEASAC tournament in Bangkok was cancelled due to the coronavirus. Learning to deal with this disappointment, after weeks of gruelling practice and matches was a skill that I needed to develop in understanding that things will not always go the way that they are planned. Learning to adapt to new situations and looking for alternatives was an area of personal growth that I needed to develop.

I had taken a lot of challenges on during this season, and the biggest one was learning how to play with different and new people that I had never played with before. For example, I believe I have developed on my skill of collaboration and learning how to adapt to working with different people because all the people I played with were not the same type of tennis player. Therefore, being a doubles player it was extremely crucial that I adapt to different match situations and learn how to evolve myself as a player in the process.

At the end of this season, I realised that working together as a team to face challenges that we could not have coped with individually, whether it is something as small as encouraging teammates from the sidelines or facing the disappointment of the cancelled SEASAC together, everyone was able to lift up each other’s spirits in the team environment that we had cultivated between ourselves. While I have always been part of a team environment in school when playing tennis, I do not think it mattered as much as it did when we had to face disappointment in the form of a cancelled SEASAC together.