The post season is always an emotional time for any team to go through. Players and teammates have worked all year for the chance to end the season in a way they’ll always remember. Here in the fall whether it is soccer, football, volleyball, cross country, tennis, swimming, or golf, the post season is always heated and always means a lot to anyone involved in that sport.
By the time of playoffs, or state, that season has come to end. For some members of the team that means the beginning of the off season. The off season means time to rest and recover from a hard season of work before getting back to off season workouts to focus on performing even better next year. For seniors however, this end of the season has a different meaning. For most senior athletes their sport is a major dedication. Since they were young they’ve worked hard at their sport. Life seems to be a constant cycle of season/ offseason, repeat.
At the end of senior year that seemingly endless cycle comes to an end. No matter if the end is a state championship or a first round loss that cycle is over. There is no longer a next season to look forward to and work for. That is why, as seniors, the drive to excel in the season is even more serious. This is the one season that athletes will have to remember for the rest of their life. Succeed or fail, it is the result of the work that is put in.
In some sports it’s an individual effort to get to the post season ending that is always so strived for. But in other sports like soccer, football, and volleyball individual athletes rely on the dedication of the team as well as the dedication of themselves. In these cases, the team becomes like a family. Athletes together with their fellow seniors and your other teammates as well, all with the same drive, the same dedication to achieve the goal for the post season.