2016-2017 Freshman sports memories

Our freshman year was full of sports successes. 2016 was a year full of drama and excitement in sport.

This sport in particular experienced a huge win for the baseball team the Chicago Cubs. In 2016, the Chicago Cubs had won the World Series Championship after 108 years of winning their last World Series. According to Wikipedia, “The Cubs defeated the Indians 4 games to 3 to win their first World Series since 1908. Game 7, an 8–7 victory in 10 innings, marked the fifth time that a Game 7 had gone into extra innings and the first since 1997 (which the Indians also lost). It was also the first Game 7 to have a rain delay, which occurred as the tenth inning was about to start.” This World Series was big impact to all Cubs fans.

According to TopEnd Sports, “It was an Olympic year, so sports was in the news a lot.” The reason why the Olympics was memory for some of the freshmans from Morton is because becoming an Olympian is a dream for some of those students. Another interesting Olympic fact is that The 19 year old American gymnast Simone Biles left with four Olympic gold medals and in the pool Michael Phelps delivered more golds in his final Olympic performance. Source TopEnd Sports said.

Another amazing sport that brings back our freshmen memories is football. In 2017, the super bowl took place. This super bowl had one of the greatest comeback, giving a 5th ring for Tom Brady. According to TopEnd Sports, The New England Patriots rallied from 25 points down to send the Super Bowl to overtime for the first time in its history, and went on to win.

A fourth sport that marked the memories of many was soccer. Cristiano Ronaldo had a stellar year – he was named FIFA’s best player in the world for the fourth time, scored his 600th career goal and secured a contract extension with Real Madrid that will pay more than $50 million annually for the next four years.- TopEnd Sports said.

Overall, the freshman year for all high school students marks their beginning to the real world. Everyone’s memories vary from person to person, but what we can all agree upon is that our 2016-2017 freshman year will forever be in our hearts and never forgotten.