Wrapping up the sports seasons, student-athletes must take with them the good and bad memories. Here’s what the athletes have to say about their sports season. For seniors, there can be a lot of self-reflection on their high school sports journey.

“Towards the end of the year, I felt really burnt out and like I wanted to quit, but I knew I had a job to do,” said senior hornet muscle and baseball player Adrian Gonzalez. “I wanted to finish the seasons out strong, and perform well and do well for others and my team.”

Gonzalez is a multi-sport athlete, splitting his attention between baseball and cheer, which requires good time management skills.

“The coaches were a big help,” Gonzalez said. “They helped me be able to manage my time, and all my efforts allowed me to leave some practices early to make other practices, but everything fell into place perfectly, and everything aligned well.”

Gonzalez said being close with a coach can change a student’s experience in a sport.

“All my coaches also taught me life lessons that I will carry on through high school, as I get older and am able to handle multiple tasks at once,” Gonzalez said. “My coaches also taught me how to treat my kids for the future—if I have kids—and also how to be a better man as a whole.”

Senior pitcher and shortstop Henry Rosales said that reminiscing on the way your sport went and how your coach runs his program can stay in your mind, especially long after senior year.

“I wouldn’t change anything about how my coach has it,” Rosales said. “I feel like he has a good standard on what every guy should be doing, and in our sport, so I feel like, the way he has it, I think I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Finding out different skills or talents you have during the year can make a good impact on the way that you deal with things during the season.

“I feel like I’m a very communicative person, but I feel like this year as a senior, I really needed to communicate more as an upperclassman,” Rosales said. “I feel like that was one of our biggest strengths on and off the field, just to learn and teach each other things that we can do to help better our game by being there and talking to one another.”

Coming back after a bad game or a tough loss, the next day can be an ego boost, senior baseball player Seth Webb said.

“The best sports experience for me is probably this year when we lost to Brewer 3-2, and then we came back the next day and beat them 10-8,” Webb said.

Overall, throughout your time of playing any sports, you have experiences that only you were able to be there for.

“When you’re playing volleyball or any sport, don’t take anything to heart, because volleyball or any sport can be really competitive and you may do something or say something that you don’t mean while you’re playing,” senior Sophie Weager said. “You really can’t take anything to offense.”