Undergraduate / "Soccer" - comments/suggestions on common app short answer [8]

Briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences...150 words or fewer:

i don't know if its too cliche...with the whole sports teamwork thing...

I joined soccer my junior year. It was the opposite of track. Both involved hard work but it was through soccer that I learned the essence of the word 'team'. "We win as a team and fall as a team," the coach told us. If one of us failed to get 'first-touch' on a ball we all did sprints. Teamwork was everything. We were losing by one. "Watch them," our coach told us, "did you see when we got that last goal? Each of the players blamed another. If we get another goal; their team will fall apart". She was right. Unlike track, it was easy to point fingers. In track, losing a race was your fault. Losing a game in soccer was everybody's. When we came to practice, a game, sectionals win or lose we were a team.