The Intensity of the Pressure

The Intensity of the Pressure

          “Friday Night Lights” can’t begin to document this. Timberwolves Stadium is going to fill with fans, parents, and friends decked in their navy and Carolina blue filing into those bleachers, more of the home team than away. The band begins to play our fight song, the cheerleaders and the dance team alike doing their own dance to the beat of it. Younger students walk around the field, waiting on that one lucky day that will someday come… their chance to sit in the Spring Valley Student Section.

                Who is it that gets the team pumped up before a game? The coach might try, but they get their intensity from us. Our cheers, our chants, all of them are heard throughout the stadium. “LET’S GO WOLVES!” over and over might be our signature, but there will always be the person with the “D” and the picket fence signs to start our “DEFENSE” chant. We cheer for individuals, but we know that we are a team. We’re a wolf pack, now and forever. We paint ourselves blue and brand ourselves with jersey numbers, not just because we can. Because, around here, we bleed blue. And if you don’t, you’re not at the right school.

                 Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be on that field, to have the weight of two thousand fans watching you on your shoulders? They’re all counting on you to win. They will criticize your every play. They accept nothing less than flawless, perfection. Could you deliver that? Could you even handle the pressure of it? Most people don’t realize how stressful it really is when one mistake could cost you an entire game. Being under those bright lights, getting slammed into by someone twice your size, it’s this kind of pressure that makes people just snap. When this happens, it results in a fumble, which results in a loss of the ball, which ultimately will result in the loss of a game if it happens too much. We can’t afford to lose another game. We can’t afford for any other players to crack under the pressure.

We refuse to lose.

                Every Friday Night at Spring Valley High School the school and players prepare for the night time game. Every week we prepare for what at this time seems to be the biggest game of our life, but it’s just another day in the life. We prepare all week, and it’s finally time to show off what has been worked on.

                With the fans in the crowd cheering for everything you do, and the cheerleaders too. The ultimate experience is playing on a team full of brothers bonded together through the game that is Spring Valley Football.

                This week the schedule is open and we have to work even harder to get ready for the big game against Greenbrier East a week from this Friday it’ll be a hard game to win, but I believe we have a very good chance to get the victory. Our record is now at 2-2, and I feel like the way we are going now we have a good chance to be a really good team this year.

By Regina George