This Isn't Just a Team. It's a Family -- XC

The bonds of athletes go way beyond team mates, and this proves true for Ellington High school's very own Cross Country team.

This SB takes place with Ellington High's XC team during the 30 minute "Study Hall" in the Health room before you're allowed to go change, practices, pasta parties, the bus rides to meets, meets themselves, dinners after meets -- things of the sort. But remember, this isn't a school SB.

Some of you are freshmen just coming to high school and this is your first school sport experience. Some of you are Seniors that have been doing this for four years. Some of you may Sophmores, Juniors, or even Seniors who are doing this for the first year. Some of you may have gotten cut from the sport you really wanted. Some of you are in it because you love running. But all of you are completely different people. And all of you are in this family.

Your coaches? Coach Al, otherwise known as Papa Al, and Coach Mike, otherwise known as Big Mike.

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Character Template -- ERASE EVERYTHING IN PARENTHESIS:

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[b]Name (nicknames might be given by teammates XD):[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Age (technically you can be in high school 'til 21, but I'd prefer you didn't here):[/b]
[b]Grade (9-12):[/b]
[b]Years on the Team:[/b]
[b]Appearance (Written and Picture):[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History (briefly):[/b]
[b]Up For Love?:[/b]
[b]Other:[/b]

Rules:
Traditional rules. No excessive cussing, no sex, no gary-lous/mary-sues, no god-modding, no perfect charries.

Remember:
This is your SB too, not just mine, so if you have an idea...use it!

About The Coaches:
Papa Al is called that by you guys for a reason - he's a)like the father of the team/family and b)he's fatherly.
To give you an idea about him, I'm going to use my coach: I was running my first meet ever, and doing not so hot in my opinion. I was nearly to the finish and my pace started to drag. All I wanted to do was quit! My coach had been standing to the side at that point, and he noticed that I was just about done with the whole thing. He dropped his clipboard and started running with me, saying I could do it, I was almost there, almost finished, not much longer, I was doing a great job. He finished the race with me to keep me going.
In addition to the fatherlyness, he's never one to yell, he loves to joke around, but he knows when to be serious and how to get you serious. He pushes you because he knows you can do it.

Big Mike (This one is 100% made-up) was given his name because he uses a big voice -- it has absolutely nothing to do with his body. If it did, it would be ironic, because Big Mike is as skinny as a pole. Big Mike boxed as a kid, and it messed up his ears, so he always yells, and sometimes you'll have to yell to have him hear you. Big Mike is a bit silly and just like the kids on the team, but knows when to take his leadership role and get serious.


**I'm interested to see how this turns out - I had the idea and I don't think I've ever seen something like it on here. What would you guys think about me making one for the school play cast and crew?**

Umm I would love to join and I LOVE THE IDEA OF A SCHOOL PLAY! I am an actress myself so I think that would rock.

Name: Emily Grad (Her friends call her Em)

Gender: female


Age: 17


Grade 11


Years on the Team: third


Appearance: She has red hair and green eyes. She is very thin as is very toned. She is about 5'7 and has really long legs. She has the prettiest smile you have ever seen.

She wears all kind of clothes. You can find her in anything from dresses to shorts and cute top. She goes for the natural colors. Greens, browns stuff like that. She makes it for fashionable though.

Personality: She is a sweet girl. Just seeing her smile will make you smile. She knows that running is her life and she loves all the things that come along with it. She is very hyper. If you just run seven miles, she will still be jumping around. She is also a morning person, which most people hate. This girl gets excited over everything and just loves life.

She has a soft heart. She is very good at putting her heart on the line where she can get hurt. She does not like unwelcoming environments and does not like it when people get upset. She will be your shoulder to lean on and she will need you to be hers.


History: She grew up with her older brother and parents. Her dad was the one that worked and her mother stayed at home. She never got to see her dad, but they talked on Skype. She got into running at a young age and has been doing it ever since.


Up For Love?: Yes


Other: Don't think so.

*waits for interest*

Name: Selena "Sunny" Joule
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Grade: 11
Years on the Team: 3
Appearance: Sunny is about five and a half feet, with an athletic build. She has lightly tanned skin, complete with sock lines, and bright green eyes. Her hair is golden blonde, usually tied back in a ponytail. She has a well-proportioned face and a lopsided smile. She usually wears tees, tank tops, and sometimes track jackets, along with jeans or cargo pants (and shorts).

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Personality: Sunny is a happy, bubbly, everyone's-best-friend sort of person. She has a good sense of humor, and she likes making people laugh. She loves sports of all kinds, but running especially. She's competitive, and she'll often play with her friends for whatever sort of gum they're carrying around. It's hard to make her angry, but if you do, watch out. Sunny will speak her mind, no matter how mean she might sound.
History: Sunny's birth parents, a pair of scientists, were killed in a lab fire shortly after Sunny was born. Her adoptive parents, also scientists (chemists, to be specific) are runners themselves, and they introduced Sunny to the sport. Sunny, in turn, introduced her younger adoptive sister, Iona. Sunny was (is) a sporty kid, and she played rec softball and took karate lessons. She was a catcher on the school's softball team during her freshman and sophomore year, in addition to being on the cross country team. This year, however, while helping her cousins move, she dropped a computer (not the monitor, the big heavy box that goes under the desk) on her catching hand, which she broke. She wears a brace, and she'll probably miss her junior season.
Up For Love?: Yupperdoodles.
Other: Sunny wears a meteorite necklace every day. She is also quite obsessed with the home baseball team.

Name: Jelan Volo ‘Jello’

Gender:Female

Age: 17

Grade: 9

Years on the Team: if your aloud to start in year seven then two

Appearance (Written and Picture): She has short spikey blonde hair with purple streaks and a side fringe. She wears black skinny jeans, white singlet’s and high heels most of the time except when at practice and events. She has an oval face, green eyes and the hair is also like that except with a few streaks of purple (imagine) (like in picture 1). She has large breasts and long legs (like in picture 2).





Personality: She is popular at school and holds many parties when her parents are on business trips. She is well liked because she is nice, also very curvy and pretty as well as a good planner. She is very smart, and many people ask to borrow her notes. She likes dating but isn’t very good at it, her longest relationship lasted one month.

History (briefly): When she was younger everyone thought she was as dumb as a doorknob, she didn’t start Kindergarten (what schooling system are we using?) till she was eight. Her parents are both translators and know a heap of languages, often slipping into one or another at home. She has three brothers, one is nineteen and is in his fourth year of an Art degree at University, one of the others is just starting year seven and he is thirteen, the other is six and just about to start Kindergarten. She also has one sister who is twenty-four, she is married and lives as a wealthy wife who works, just as a house maid, not getting paid, she is now three months pregnant, her husband is a super star who works as an actor and singer or so he says.

Up For Love?: yep. Bi-Sexual

Other: pet fish called fish.