"High School Tryouts" by Joseph M.

There was this kid named Matthew, he was the best baseball player you could ever see. Soon was high school tryouts and he was so confident that he thinks he could make varsity as a freshman. Tryouts were in 2 weeks. There was one thing that stopped him, witch were his grades. The report card comes out the same week as tryouts.  At that time his GPA was a 1.9 and he tried to bring it up quick as possible. He needed to have a 2.0 to be eligible to play. Matthew had tests for each subject the next day and that night he studied the most he can do. He found out that out of all the five test he took he passed one. A week later he got his report card and his GPA dropped to a 1.4. Tryouts were the next day. The coach was disappointed in him because he had so much talent. He made a deal with Matthew and said if you do good with us you don’t have to worry about your grades, I just want you on my team. So turns out he does make varsity, and his parents were so proud of him but never knew about his grades. Soon his parents got the report card and right away pulled Matthew out of baseball and told the school that the coach was letting him play with a GPA under 2.0. Turns out the coach gets fired and Matthew is never playing baseball until he gets his grades up. Out of his years of high school, he did pick up his grades and got a full scholarship to a division 1 college in his junior year. Later that day he thanked his parents, and never gave up on his academics or baseball.