Chapter IX Selection
Timothy High School is located at 88 Butterfield Road, Elmhurst Region, City of Chicago. The school was founded in 1911 and has a 26-acre campus located in the suburbs. Timothy High School is a co-educational full-time secondary school affiliated with the Church of Christ. The school covers all basic education from kindergarten to the 12th grade of high school. Among them, there are more than 300 students in the high school, and the ratio of teachers is 1:11, which is a typical elite school, and of course, the tuition fee is also a lot of money. The school has been ranked as one of the 96 best high schools in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, and has maintained a very high acceptance rate for prestigious schools all year round.
The whole campus is covered with green grass and various plants to decorate the school like a large garden. The facilities are also very complete, with a football field with an athletics track in the northeast corner of the school, flanked by spectator seats. Unlike most other American high schools, Timothy Middle School has a boys' soccer team that shares a soccer field with the school's American football team. To the south of the soccer field are two baseball fields, one each for the men's baseball team and one for the women's softball team. In addition to these two large outdoor fields, the school also has a golf driving range, 8 tennis courts, and an outdoor swimming pool. Relatively large indoor facilities include school auditoriums, art galleries, libraries, laboratory buildings, multi-purpose halls, gymnasiums, etc.
The gymnasium consists of several training halls and a competition hall with 2,000 spectator seats, including a volleyball training hall, a small ball training hall (badminton table tennis) and two basketball training halls.
In fact, Timothy High School has a similar stadium configuration to most middle schools in the United States. Let's compare it to our domestic campus sports facilities. So it's no surprise that the United States tops the gold medal list at every Olympic Games.
Glenn, a sophomore in high school. Sampson was sitting in the classroom somewhat absent-mindedly, and a male teacher was in front of the stage, holding a Bible with a serious face, and reading with great devotion: "Blessed be the Most High God, who has delivered the enemy into your hands." This is a quote from Genesis 14, and since it is a church school, the Bible is a basic subject that must be studied.
Today is the day of the open selection of the school team, and I have been preparing for this moment for a year. In fact, his strength has already reached the level of the varsity team, but Coach Bo Li has a principle - freshmen must stay in the freshman team or the small varsity team (can be called the second team) for a full academic year.
Thinking of today's tryouts, Glenn was a little elated. The selection competition is a competition between the junior team and the freshman team, and the outstanding junior team members can be promoted directly to the varsity team, and the freshman team will be selected for the junior school team if they find that the child with development potential. Thinking that he would have to face a bunch of rookies later, it would be better to have a confrontation match with Sun in the Red Eagles, that guy is getting stronger and stronger, and it is a little difficult to deal with him now. Oh yes. He's in his first year of high school this year, and he doesn't know which school it is.
Sun Yi, who was being talked about, suddenly sneezed. aroused the attention of the classmates, especially several female classmates, who took the opportunity to launch various radio waves towards Sun Yi with peach blossoms, but they were discovered by the attentive little beauty Anna, and they made a grimace at him. Sun Yi rolled his eyes, meaning that his brother doesn't care about women.
Sun Yi, who has revenge, when did he speak so well. Previously, under the careful guidance of Little Anna, Sun Yi successfully passed the entrance test of Timotai High School. After the start of school, the two also happened to be in the same class. Last week, Sun Yi participated in the selection of the school's basketball freshman team and was selected without any suspense.
The first thing I did after being selected was to be told by the teacher in charge of the training of the freshman team that if any of the team members failed in the mid-term exam, they would be immediately disqualified from joining the team.
It made Sun Yi very nervous, and he was attentive in every class, which was much more serious than going to school in China. It's been two weeks since school started, and Sun Yi is still relatively relaxed in science. However, the American history and the Bible in the liberal arts almost drove Sun Yi crazy. If it weren't for Anna's frequent tutoring, it is estimated that Sun Yi would have wanted to transfer schools.
Bell bell bell ...... The boring history lesson is finally over. Sun Yi twisted his somewhat stiff neck, and not far away, a red-haired girl with a ball head walked towards Sun Yi with a book in her arms. "Sun, there are some things I don't understand in this class, can you help me?"
Sun Yi grabbed the book in the girl's hand very indifferently, uh! American History. You horse, you tease me. An American asks a foreigner about American history. Is there a mistake?
Anna, who had been paying attention to this side, covered her mouth and laughed when she saw the title of the book. Sun Yi's afterglow discovered Anna's movements. Scolded, little bastard, it's really annoying.
Looking at the female classmate in front of me, I don't know if it was nervousness or excitement that made the few small freckles on her face more obvious. “
Actually, I don't know much about this classmate. Sun Yi said softly, and the little girl was a little disappointed when she heard this.
"But we can learn and progress together." Sun Yi said in a deliberately loud voice while looking at the lively Anna with his eyes angrily.
The little girl seemed to have her head bent and couldn't turn around, and it took a long time to react. I was excited to say something, and suddenly I heard a sweet and greasy voice. "Some people, if they rush to the stadium at the speed of a 100-meter sprint. It is estimated that there is still time to participate in the tryout of the school team. Anna finished and lifted her watch to look, "Five minutes to go." ”
I'm X, I almost forgot about the big thing. Sun Yi immediately rushed out of the classroom like a frightened wild horse. The little girl finally mustered up the courage to have a close contact with the little oriental male god in the class.
It's all the blame for the little goblin, who glared at Anna hatefully.
Anna, who was sitting in the seat, was like she didn't see it, and she pulled down the blonde hair draped over her shoulders and blew it softly in front of her. Hum! still wants to grab a boyfriend with Miss Ben, and some precocious little Anna is secretly proud. didn't know that her action made most of the boys in the class almost bleed from their noses, and they shouted one after another, it was too wicked.
Chris. Boehrie, 50, has been coaching Timothy High School's varsity basketball team for thirteen years. Under his leadership, the Timothy Trojans have been at a high level in Illinois, where basketball is strong.
He arrived at the stadium early today, and the two coaches, who were preparing for the upcoming game, stopped what they were doing when they saw him.
"Hey! Chris. It's so early. How many points can Glenn get on those newborn eggs today? One of them said with a smile. Coach Boli smiled and exchanged pleasantries with the two.
After a while, the junior team and the freshman team went to the training hall under the leadership of their respective coaches. After the roll call, I started a warm-up activity under the guidance of a coach.
"Chris, this year's freshman team has a character." Tommy, the coach of the freshman team, said to Coach Boley. "Oh, which one?" Tommy pointed to a young man with an oriental face in the team, "Well, that's the Oriental kid." Bo Li followed Tommy's guidance and saw Sun Yi who was warming up.
Boehly thought for a moment and said to Tommy, "Arrange for him to be in the opposite position with Glenn." Tommy nodded in surprise, this old man is ruthless enough. Let a freshman face a talented player who will immediately enter the school team to play the main team. In fact, Coach Boew just wanted to make some trouble for the kid named Glenn, otherwise it would be too boring to get into the varsity team step by step.
Glenn and Sun Yi found each other as soon as they entered the training hall, but they were both warming up in their respective teams, so it was inconvenient to come out to say hello. After Glenn saw Sun Yi, he secretly exclaimed that he was also in this school, and immediately mentioned a little sluggish spirit. It is enjoyable to be able to defeat such an opponent and enter the school team. Sun Yi's level, even if he can't directly enter the school team in the first year of high school, he will inevitably become a teammate of his school team in the second year of high school. Thinking of this, well, you can't be too ruthless when you wait, you have to save some face.
Sun Yi is a different idea, Glenn as his teammate in the Red Hawks. It is the strongest player he has met so far, and he has not yet entered the school team in Timotai High School, how high is the level of this school team, while thinking, his heart is beating a drum.
With the warm-up over, the players of both teams returned to their respective coaches to assemble. "Thomas, you play point guard, you play fast break when you get a chance." Coach Tommy said to a tall, but stocky-looking white teenager. "Sun, you play the quarterback." Sun Yi nodded.
Thomas, the point guard on the side, took advantage of the coach's arrangement of other positions and pulled Sun Yi's jersey. "Sun, you're a ruthless character. I heard that guy is determined to join the varsity team, and he is still playing the main team. The well-informed Thomas said to Sun Yi with some concern. What he didn't expect was that the Oriental boy, who looked low-key and modest, said casually, "I'll blow him up." "Of course, if Sun Yi didn't say anything, he would up.
Thomas watched his new teammate face a strong opponent with confidence, and suddenly felt a little weak. "Don't worry, I'll pass the ball to you." Sun Yi and Thomas met during the freshman team selection, and they are the best of this freshman class. Thomas is not tall, about 1.7 meters. It's fast, passes and dribbles pretty well, and he also shoots accurately.
The official basketball game in high school and college in the United States is divided into two halves of 20 minutes each. In some teams' internal training matches, four quarters of 10 minutes are often played according to the coach's habits.
Honk! A whistle blew, and a coach officiating the match motioned for players from both sides to come on. Glenn looked at the oncoming Sun Yi, and the two of them invariably stretched out their right hands and shook them vigorously. "Sun, I'll be merciful." Glenn said with a blank face. Sun Yi shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "My coach, let me blow you up." After saying that, Sun Yi turned around and walked to his own half, throwing Glenn a dashing back. Glenn smiled rarely, the game was kind of interesting.
Coach Bo Li on the sidelines watched every move of the two. Oh, that guy was the Red Hawks teammate Glenn was talking about in front of him. Why was the old man so sure, because Glenn said the most was that he had a handsome, envious oriental face.
As the referee is in the center circle, he throws the ball in his hand into the air. It's officially on, kids, let me see what you're up to.