The next Inning

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  Wai'anae, Hawai'i
  February 20, 2015 Moving up is something that everyone does, whether it’s in a job position, class rank, or sport. In sports, it’s not always the easiest thing to go from one position to another, but for the softball girls at Waianae High School, it comes as a second nature. For Sophomore Chrisann Rabanes, there’s no where to go but up.
  
  “Im excited. moving up to varsity I feel like I can accomplish something that you know feels good to me as well as my family.”
  
  Chrisann has been playing on Waianae high school’s junior varsity softball team for the past two years and this may be the year she moves up to Varsity.
  
  “I get to meet new people, play games, wholeheartedly I really really wanna start and be on the team.”
  
  Chrisann is not the only sophomore trying out for Varsity.
  
  “I’ve been playing softball since I was like 7 and my three older sisters played on the Varsity team when they were in high school so I’m hoping to be able to follow in their footsteps.”
  
  states Charlie Pittman. Last year, Waianae’s junior varsity softball team made it to finals, but for this season, the girls don’t know what to expect from their new team and more importantly, their new teammates.
  
  ““I feel really confident about the outcome for this year, I just hope I can get along with the other varsity girls.”
  
  states Charlie Pittman. Although the “newbies” have many challenges ahead of them, the returnee softball girls are willing to lend them a helping hand.
  
  “I have faith in the new girls on the team and I’m sure they’ll do great. I remember my first year coming up to vars and I was really scared because I knew the girls on the team would expect more from me and the coaching would be more rigorous but I just did what I was told and I got along just fine with the older girls so I just want to be as supportive of the younger girls as the older girls were of me.”
  
  states Senior player Breani Simpson. This year not only do the junior varsity girls face the challenge of moving up, but the varsity girls also face the challenge of a new head coach and new teammates, but the expectations for the team are still as high as ever. Junior Bailey Pittman states,
  
  “I’m so ready for this season. I know it’s going to be a lot harder considering the fact that we’ll have to adjust to the new coaching and her new philosophy, but I’m hoping to go even further than we did last year and I’m sure when we get to know each other as players and realize our strengths and weaknesses, we’ll be able to go far.”
  
  

"Im excited, moving up to varsity i feel like I can accomplish something that you know feels good to me was well as my family" said

Chrisann Rabanes

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"Watching some of these girls made me think that they work really hard to get to where they are now."


Tyler Chanthakham, Photographer

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"I've learned that moving up is something hard to do but it's not impossible."


Brylee Maesaka-Maramba, Writer 

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