Dear Faith Hazel
As I have read through this email you have sent me I have realised how hurt you are. I am sorry for your hurt and in my opinion they shouldn’t be treating you like this especially the coach because he is not there just to coach he is there to uplift you and try improve on your skills. My advice to you push through and have the courage to carry on playing no matter what everyone else thinks.
I know this is very stressful but I am proud of you for reaching out for help.
A solution I have in mind is you can ask someone you know to train you to get better to prove your coach and teammates that your just not a bench warmer, instead of worrying about everyone else’s opinion they have about you try think on the bright side and build your confidence by believing in yourself. I can tell you enjoy playing this sport, but you just don’t like being put down as it is suffocating your confidence to play.
Another solution is you can confront them not by yourself but with your parent as well, so you can sort this out a calm and presentable way about how your feeling or you can ignore it because there only putting you down because there either jealous of you or there scared of you so they wanna put you down so you stop playing. If you quite now regret will start taking over don’t quit no matter what my quote to you is “it’s hard to beat someone, who never gives up”.
Faith don’t stop playing no matter what people say or think about you, believe in yourself and keep pushing through ignore there negative energy and focus on how your gonna prove them wrong and keep training to get better. But I am very proud of you for reaching out for help. Don’t hide away. Keep playing because this could be your future, getting payed to play basketball overseas would be amazing and a great experience. If there is any other issues or problems you may wanna talk about let me know.
Thank you.