This post is written to a pretty rad dude and if you are not him then you can have a quick glance. If you are him please read.

Dear Stephen Curry,
   
My name is Corrine Sullivan and I am a fourteen year old girl who lives in Park City Utah. I play basketball on the high school team as well as lacrosse. I also ski on the weekends and work really hard in school. I watch you play basketball and I am amazed by the consistence and accuracy of your shots. I think you are truly one of the best NBA players in history.

I tend to stretch myself to thin and overwork myself. I strive to be the best at everything and sometimes I need to take a step back. My main topics are basketball, school, and what I enjoy. I have had a 4.0 since forth grade and I am on the varsity basketball team. I absolutely love sports and I know you do too.

I want you to read my blog because I feel like you have already gone through the hard part of being a student athlete. Now you are one of the best athletes in the world. By reading my blog I want you to relate to what it was like to go through the struggles before you became famous.

Sometimes when I look at famous people I think they have it all going for them. The truth is you had a to push yourself as hard as you physically could in order to get where you are today. Millions of people look up to you and I am one of many. I hope you read my blog to relate to me. I am not sure what your childhood was like but I am having a hard time balancing everything this year. I think you must have had a time like that too. My blog will kind of be like a time warp for you. It will take you back to the days of being in high school and worrying about your next assignment instead of being the best in the world.

Just look at you.  Courtesy of (verge campus)

I love basketball and have for a very long time. I started playing in third grade and ever since then I have loved it. Just like you my dad was my first coach and has made the biggest impact in my life. He taught me the basics and after every game he lectures me on what I can do better. I want to be the best I can be but sometimes I push myself too much and get discouraged. Since you are the best in the world I feel like you don’t get discouraged anymore. I also think there must have been a time in your life where you got discouraged.

I want you to read my blog to watch me grow and change. Plus you Steph Curry come on that is incredibly cool. I want you to come back and read my new posts because it will show you how I am growing as a person, player and student. I hope my blog makes you realize that kids all over are looking up to you and that you can relate and remember what it was like to not be the best. Because one day I want to be the best.

                                                                                                                     Sincerely,

                                                                                                                     ~ Corrine

Splitting Myslef into Three Parts

I have this tendency to push myself over the limit. Multiple times. 

Yeah, yeah being a student isn't that bad compared to a job or college. The real world is hard but to me high school is pretty tough too.

I am on the basketball team and it is super fun but also super exhausting. We have practice every single day after school. On top of that we also have games two to three times a week. Some games like the one tomorrow are two hours away. That means we get home around eleven at night because there are three games. The freshman team plays first then junior varsity and finally varsity. I usually start junior varsity and then get a few minutes of playing time in Varsity. Games are a blast but as you can tell getting homework done is not on the to do list.

Lacrosse just started having practice as well. Tryouts were just held over the last two weeks. Talk about stressful. I would go from basketball practice ending at six and then going straight to lacrosse practice and eventually tryouts. That is almost a full day of school but exercising. I would get home around nine thirty at night and I had not done any homework yet.

Every day like that I would dread. Bringing a backpack, lunch, basketball bag and lacrosse stick to school was a lot on my shoulders literally.

On my day of tryouts for lacrosse I was really nervous just like everyone else. I came from basketball and went to a two and a half hour tryout. We ran this thing called the Sparta. It is extremely hard and after we planked for five minutes. During the planks I started feeling dizzy and my neighbor told me it was just the lights. After we were done planking I stood up and all the sudden I felt like I was going to puke. Then I did and I could help it. The coaches were very kind and sent me home. I was a wreck and super embarrassed.

The logo for our team. Courtesy of KPCW

The next trouts I made it through but got home that night and threw up all night. I missed the next two days of school to get better.

After getting better I realized I am stretched too thin. My grades were dropping a little bit and overall, I was mentally and physically exhausted. My body shut down and that has never happened to me before. The quarter ends on Friday so that will be a huge sigh of relief. I know now that being split between school, basketball and lacrosse is not going to work. I need to lighten my load so I can keep moving forward. Anyway your life is probably stressful too so thanks for reading and maybe relating to my rant.

Happy Stress,

~Corrine

Hatred for A-'s

School. It’s a blast. Waking up at six in the morning is definitely my idea of a perfect day.

According to America I am technically a freshman but truly, I am not. I go to Treasure Mountain Junior High. Notice the Junior in that. My school contains eighth and ninth graders so I am the oldest as a freshman. I am not saying it's bad that we are not the little tiny freshman but, I wish we were.

A visual representation of my campus.  Source: Google Maps

My school and the high school are on the same campus so the high school is so close but, so far. I mean, it’s only 1056 yards away. That’s approximately a seven minute walk and I would know because I do it almost every day. Living in a ski town, there tends to be a lot of snow. And as fun as it is to walk in a blizzard, I don’t prefer it. Most sports and activities are at the high school because we are freshmen (but not really). Oh well, only one more year then I will only have to walk five yards to get to the gym.

The thing about high school is that, it is super hard. Eighth grade does come close to ninth grade and defiantly does not prepare you for ninth grade.

The first quarter just concluded and I ended with a 3.975.Yes, it’s very good, but the thing is I have had a 4.0 since fourth grade. The reason why I got a 3.9 is because I got a 93% in Honors English. Technically, that is an A but according to my teacher it is an A-. I was so close and I DID IT but noooooooo.

I hate A-‘s with a burning passion. I am also positive that everyone else does too.

Plus, if we have negatives that drop your grade, why can’t we have positives that boost your grade? It’s extremely dumb.

Grades ruin the whole point of education because that's all we care about. If we are assigned homework but it is not going to be graded, no one will do it. We do bare minimum unless we are graded. We have all had those quizzes that the teacher gives and says they are not graded. Most people just fill in the bubbles however they want. It’s stupid.

All throughout school, some teachers have told me that an A is an A. But little do they know that the little - sign makes a big difference. That one A- prevented me from the glorified 4.0. I know I am exaggerating a lot but I need too.

One thing that really annoys me about teachers is that they think that we only have their class and their class only. Little do they realize that I have another seven classes to account for. Some teachers give out only one hour of homework but if you multiply that by eight, it adds up.

Teachers also tend to think that sports are dumb and they can’t believe we would educational opportunities for exercise. School is important but we need to have a life too.

Not having a 4.0 is most defiantly not the end of the world so all is well but I was just so close. So there is my rant on school and A-. It won’t be the last one of the year and I can promise you that.

Happy finals week,
~Corrine