After I got home from school today I did what I usually do. Have lunch and watch ESPN for as long as I can, lol. One of my favorite shows is Outside The Lines: First Report. For those that don’t know, it is a sports show that looks into sports in a different perspective and shows story lines that you wouldn’t really think of. Similar to E:60 (love that show too). Today they had a piece on Ms. Sarah Palin. It talks about how she used to be a sports caster. Formerly known as Sarah Heath she also was a point guard in high school. Her team lost back to back years in the state championship when she was a sophomore and junior. In March of 1982 she had her last shot at winning the state championship. As a senior, Sarah Heath was the starting point guard and co-captain of her team. Sarah says her roll on on her team was to assist mostly. Her nickname was barracuda because she was a great defensive player and fed the ball to the other players on the team. A few nights before the championship game she injured her ankle and was later diagnosed with a stress fracture. She ended playing through the pain. Scoring no points in the championship game and her team up by 4 with 10 seconds to go, she was fouled and sent to the line. Sarah made her first free throw to put their lead up at 5 and put it out of reach. It was the only point she scored in the game. The final score was 58-53 and they were 1982 Alaska State Champions. Sarah says that the state championship was a very significant time in her life because her team had overcome so much adversity and she could relate so many of the principles and lessons learned then to what she’s going through now. When asked how she thought how that contributed to her being able to be vice president she said that it helped because
“You work as a team, healthy competition is so good, all those good things that you learn out there on the basketball court are all good for lessons learned in life. The determination and the drive that we have today to do what’s right and to be victorious at the end of the day. Same lessons to apply.”
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Christopher Hernandez
