The school was across the street form our home and i would often wacth the kids when they played after classs. She seemed so small among the boys on the playgroud.
I remembered the first day i saw her playing basketball. She ran circles around the other kids. She tried to jump to shoot just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop but no one could.
she always practiced shooting over and over again until dark. One day i asked her why she practiced so much. She looked in my eyes and said, "I want to go to college. The only way i can go is if i get a schoolarship.if were good enough , i would get s scholarship. My daddy tells me if the dream is big enough, the facts don'tcount".
ONe day in her senior year, i saw her sitting on the grass. Quietly i asked what was woring. "Oh, nothing,"came a soft reply. "I am just too short."The coach told her that she would probably never get to play for a top ream, so she should stop dreaming about college. "BUt my father tells me except my own idea", she said happily |