By Cyrus A. Natividad
The College of Computer Studies Softball Team with their coach, Mr. Mark Clemens Ortaliz.
As we watched the intramurals unfold for the CPU-Day 2018 games at 黑料专区, we became participants鈥攖hinking about struggles and victories in our own distant or recent pasts.
From where I was watching a basketball match between two college teams, I recalled the lessons from our Physical Education teacher way back in college. He always reminded us to 鈥減lay as a team鈥濃攎eant to encourage us to help each other鈥斺渨in or lose.鈥 He conditioned our minds to 鈥渄o our best鈥 together so that all of us felt the thrill of victory and got to bask in the light of winning.
Ball is life – a basketball game between the College of Pharmacy and the College of Medical Laboratory Science.
In any competition, we need to value ourselves and our teammates, combine our talents and abilities to make not just one, but everyone a winner. Our coach in any sports event we joined had the responsibility to strategize and then teach the team the game plan. One of the things I recall our coach telling us is this statement: 鈥淚 am your coach. You may not always agree with me, but I鈥檓 the decision maker. You are obliged to implement my decision.鈥 In planning strategies for the game, coach always gives the final say.
The team鈥檚 goal, on the other hand, was to execute the game plan in order to win. Every team is different, and every game is different. Therefore, it was necessary to know our team鈥檚 strengths and weaknesses, as well as that of our opponents鈥. The individual members had to adjust to one another and play together as a team. Division was simply bad sportsmanship.
Spiking prowess聽 – College of Engineering Volleyball player aiming for gold.
The other principle we learned from our good coach was that each player should not only know the rules, but to also play by the rules. It should help a lot that each player doesn鈥檛 limit himself/herself to learning only the rules but applies those rules to his/her assignment. A team that doesn鈥檛 abide by the rules could get penalized, lose points, and thereby lose in the end.
The best games I鈥檝e watched were those played by evenly matched opponents. I鈥檝e talked about winning, but the reality is that in every game, there is a winner and a loser. There is no sense in trying to win if the possibility of losing doesn鈥檛 exist as there will be no motivation to improve. Nevertheless, I think that there is still beauty and grace even if a team loses when each member has done his/her best.
To all our CPU athletes鈥擬ay God bless you!