Basketball
Many students at North Shore participate in the game of basketball and cannot wait until North Shore's basketball season starts. Students get an opportunity to sign up for basketball at the beginning of the year and later in September the girls get a chance to showcase there talents and are divided into teams of equal talent. Near the beginning of October, practice starts, and then basketball games begin shortly after. The girls basketball season lasts until the middle of December and boys begins just a little bit later.
With North Shore having three grades, the school has about 3-4 teams per grade. Each team plays 12 games in the season with other teams in our conference (AMSAC). The seeding in the tournament is determined by how your previous games went. All the teams in AMSAC (Arrowhead Middle School Athletic Conference) play in the final tournament at the end of the season. Most of the schools in AMSAC go to Arrowhead High School. The teams in AMSAC include North Shore, Merton, Erin, Friess Lake, Stone Bank, Swallow, Lake Country, and Richmond. The rules in this game consist of the same official rules with 6-minute quarters. Each team visits other schools to have a great game of basketball, and the tournament is usually played in 2-3 different schools. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and the consolation winner are awarded with a plaque to hang on the walls of your school.
North Shore's basketball jerseys are reversible jerseys, with the colors of green and white. The shorts have the school logo of a knight and school name. There are numbers on both sides of the jerseys. North Shore's basketball gymnasium has a Knight in the middle and two scoreboards on both sides of the gym.
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)