Lucie Dupree, Captain
August 30, 2010 4:05 PM
Teppenpaw Quidditch Try-Outs by Lucie Dupree, Captain
Lucie tapped her pen against the sign-up list. It wasn’t looking good. If only the people that signed up on the list showed up, they wouldn’t even have enough people to fill all the spots. She knew that Teppenpaw had a long history of having difficulty getting people for the team, but she thought this was a bit ridiculous. And being the Prairie ‘under’ dogs would be a serious understatement without more people. She wondered what Pierce would do if they weren’t able to come up with a full team. How awful! She didn’t think that had happened before. At least, not since she had been at the school.She seriously hoped some other people showed up, but either way, the show had to go on. “Welcome to Teppenpaw Quidditch Try-Outs. I’m Lucie Dupree, Captain and one of the Chasers.” She nodded to the nearby boy. “This is Tobar Brishen, Assistant Captain and another Chaser. Returning members are Dmitri Petrovskii, Beater, and Kirstenna Melcher, Keeper.” Introductions made, she continued on with what they needed, “The spots that need filled are Chaser, Beater, and Seeker. The other name I see here is Kate Bauer.” She paused for a moment for the girl to be identified. “I’d like to have you try out for Seeker, if that’s all right with you.”
“To do that, I’m going to time you on how long it takes for you to catch the Snitch three times,” Lucie said. She figured if it took too long than Kate wasn’t meant to be a Seeker and could be switched to another position. If she did, well, then they had a Seeker. “Kirstenna, I know you aren’t a beater, but Dmitri needs practice, so I want the two of you to bat around the bludger. If anyone else shows up, I’ll send them over. Tobar, you’ll stay with me unless we get someone interested in Chaser.” There wasn’t much more to be said than that, so she let them go up in the air. Once everyone was positioned, she released one of the bludgers as well as the snitch. With that, she started timing Kate.
OOC: If anyone else showed up, just pretend that you were either already there or walked on. You can join in with whichever position you want to try out for. Thanks.
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Kate Bauer, Newbie
September 05, 2010 8:19 PM
Trying my best. by Kate Bauer, Newbie
She had been serious in signing up for the Quidditch team, and willing to play if it came to that, but in all honesty, Kate had expected that her status as a first year would end in an automatic placement on the bench. She'd have a year, maybe two depending on how old most of the other players were, to get better at whatever position she landed in before she played much when they weren't winning or losing hugely already, and that way, she'd get to have her little rebellion against her mother without actually making Emily want to strangle her for a while.This was why, when she was one of only five people on the list and was immediately asked to try her hand at Seeker, she was slightly concerned.
If there had been more people around, then she would have assumed that it was just customary - of her sisters, she was the least physically suited to being a Seeker; she wasn't huge, but she was more sturdily built than narrow Rachel or tiny Alicia, and likely to be taller than either one of them by a good inch or two - but it seemed that the try-out was actually serious. So, trying to mask nervousness with a smile, she decided to take it seriously. "Okay," she said once she'd identified herself and been surface-level asked if it was all right. "That's fine."
Of course, getting the most important position on the team would irritate her family supremely, but throwing the test wasn't an option. Not only would it be poor sportsmanship, it would also be a weakling's move and something she'd get caught at more likely than not anyway. Lucie was at least seven years older than her, maybe close to eight if her birthday fell just so, and she might have therefore been on a broom as long as Kate had been alive. So, when the Snitch was up, Kate put her all into following it.
How long it took her, she had no idea. She didn't think she had been too long about it, but under the pressure, every second had felt like a short century. Plus, she didn't know how much it should count anyway, since the Pitch was so much less chaotic now than it would be during a game. The second time didn't feel as tense, though, and the third stayed the same, so she had a better idea of how she did those times. She wasn't as good as someone who'd been playing Seeker for a few years and was smaller anyway, but she was observant enough, not too slow, and didn't think she had made a complete fool of herself.
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