As the rest of the school wakes up on a bright holiday morning, excluding a few other unfortunate individuals, you get up early in a heavy sweat knowing that you’ve dreaded this day for weeks, the moment you realize spring tryouts have begun.

For years, spring sports have been some of the more successful sports teams at Langley with soccer, baseball, tennis, and lacrosse all making it at least to the state tournament for the last four years.

The success and legacy do not come without a price, and every year starting Presidents Day weekend spring athletes everywhere go through one of the worst weeks of the year.

The week is filled with pressure and anxiety that slowly builds up until the day the coach sits you in a room and gives you the halfhearted speech that he gives to fifty other kids that same day.

Students try to keep a grasp on sanity by making fake rosters and convincing themselves they’re final or even asking friends who know nothing about their sport just to have the opportunity to talk about themselves.

If you are someone who has not experienced it before, you could call it psychotic, inhumane, or even pointless. But in the end, it is something that every spring athlete will go through, whether they admit or not, and is just part of the tryout experience.

So if you walk through the halls this next week, and notice sports gear, large groups of people screaming at each other, or even crudely drawn rosters on the ground, you will know that it’s spring tryout week.