No "I" in Team

I am a freshman and participate on the WSU tennis team. On the first day of practice everyone seemed to form into cliques making it difficult to meet one another. This past Saturday, the WSU Women's Raider Tennis team participated in a challenge course for team building. We woke up early to make it to the challenge course by 9am. None of us seemed thrilled with the whole waking up early and playing in nature for the five hours idea. We got to the challenge course and everyone was still hanging around who they knew. For our first assignment, we were told to write our goals for the day and the season. We all shared common goals. Our goal for the day was to build friendships, while our goal for the season was to have a successful winning record. The day was filled with different activities and challenges that were impossible to accomplish as individuals, forcing us to work together as a team. The challenge course instructor left us with a famous quote by Plato. The quote stated, "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." We learned a lot from each other that day and by the end of the day the cliques divided. We ate dinner at our coach's house as a team. It felt as if we were having a family dinner. In the beginning of the day we were just individuals but by the end of the day we were a team.