Was it the right thing to do or the wrong? Should i continue to do what I love and wrestle for my senior year or end it to get my grades to where they should be if I want to go to college where I want to? My junior year I was a 145-152 pounder and was doing awesome, I had a record of 21-8 in section 3 before I decided i couldn’t take it anymore. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to wrestle anymore, it was that I didn’t like getting picked on every time I lost a match, and no one doing anything to stop them from doing that to me. After every match that I lost I would get called names by my teammates and old teammates. I don’t know why they called me names, was I easy to pick on. I didn't lose much either, I was one of the best wrestlers on the team. When I would win the match I would still get criticized by the team for not being good enough. I try my hardest, at everything I do, I'm a hard worker and give everything my all. What gets me upset is that when they lost everyone would pat them on the back and say they tried their best. Why can’t they do that for me? …show more content…
I did it as a child and now I still wish I did it now and never quit, I’ve learned my lesson, I should have finished out the season. Now that I've quit all I hear from everyone is "your a quitter" or "quitting one thing makes you want to quit at other stuff, your lining yourself up for failure in the future." and “We need you, you were really good, the team could use you again.” I know I made a mistake by quitting what I loved. I don’t like quitting so I don’t quit, they just pushed me too far. My parents and family all want me to wrestle and I agree but I don’t want to get picked on like i used to. I know I would do really do if I signed up, but that's an if. I still have to get through this football season Before I make up my mind to
Then, high school came along and I received a rude awakening that I was no longer top dog on the wrestling team. I lost more matches that first year of highschool wrestling then I had my whole junior high career combined. I was devastated that year I thought that I would never want to wrestle again. However, when wrestling rolled around that next year I was the first in line to show
Be strong, i’m here for you, why do you feel the need to do this to yourself? Those are some common phrases I hear from day to day. I have always been a happy girl, I have a good family good house and a amazing gymnastics career, but two years ago my life changed forever. Ever since I was a little girl I had always known my goal and pushed myself to the highest levels to get it. My goal was the olympics and there was nothing holding me back or at least that's what I thought.
Today I am taking a break from the series of articles I usually write, to bring you a subject I have thought about for a long time. I only started paying attention to wrestling in my teen years, so the "Attitude Era" was what I considered wrestling. I won't go into what made the era special, because that would be insulting to your intelligence, everyone knows what made the era successful, and why some fans still pine for it. Needless to say, it was "cool", it suited the times, and it broke the mold formed over the previous decades.
It is rather, a fight. A fight in which each combatant must push their-self to
When I was 12 years old I started wrestling, I had been told of others in my family throughout years that wrestled and that is why I chose to wrestle. So far it has taught me courage and grace. At some point, everyone will lose at least once because there is always someone practicing and training as hard as you somewhere else. This is important because it makes me want to work harder to become the best. Wrestling is a place for a kid like me to prove himself to those who doubt. It is a place for a kid like me to show everyone what I am made of and that is how my cultural identity is shown.
It was difficult seeing my teammates winning matches and training together during the offseason. I wanted to train alongside them because of the strong bonds we’ve formed over the years and my drive to improve. Although I couldn’t wrestle, I dedicated myself by preparing in other ways. I was able to do pushups and pull-ups to gain strength. I watched youtube videos of moves and practiced them on my
Growing up I really didn't have a choice but to love the game of football. I played little league football for four years. Two years with the Pleasant Grove Broncos and two years with the Pleasant Grove Trojans. My dad was my football coach when I played for the trojans. However, my younger brother was always better than me. Once on the field he ran me flat over. I layed on the ground in thought to myself “was football really for me”. Everygame my brother would run up and down the field continuously. Instead of running on the field with him I was running up and down the sideline cheering him own as he scored. I started to feel as I was not apart of the team, every single game I was on the sideline waiting to get in but the coaches never put me in. I would
Wrestling is a great sport to better yourself and earn a bunch of awards and titles to look back on later on in life. It 's something i will never forget and cherish always. But the memories of losing all the weight and making myself miserable for all those seasons is something i will not miss. People around me were only worried about the medals i had gotten and not about my personal being, that 's where wrestling goes wrong. That 's what needs to change in the future for not only wrestlers but the people around them as well.
In the sport of boxing the objective of the game is to knock out your opponent without having that done to you. Constantly taking direct hits to the head area can cause a boxer to receive a concussion. A boxing match last 48 minutes with there being 12 rounds, and each round is 3 minutes long. The number of participants has been going up each year for the sport of boxing. In 2008, it has been 18,000 boxers registered for USA Olympic Games. That’s not even counting the number of amateur boxers that is trying to make it professionally. The number of recorded injuries that happens during the Olympic Games are not recorded to protect the athletes, and a lot of athletes are not speaking up about their injury.
I really have a passion for sports, softball in particular. I have had a passion for softball since I started playing in the seventh grade. I worked at every practice, so that I could be better than I was the day before. It has always been my dream to play college softball. After I lost my coach, I really wanted to give up softball. Ultimately, I didn’t give up because every time I didn’t try or said that I didn’t want to play anymore I thought of the words of encouragement I received from my coach at the beginning of every game. Her quote was “Never quit, always fight until the very end!” That’s something I will never forget. It will stick with me until I die. It’s one of the main reasons I am still playing softball till this day and why I
Wrestling matches were described by the Greek poet Homer, and wrestling became the final and decisive event of the pentathlon, the five-fold contest of the Greek public games.
But my coach Ed Hart petitioned to let me wrestle. But they made me wrestle two weight classes up than my original weight. I pinned all the to the finals and won 12-1 In the finals. People say my senior year was the most successful in U.S. history.
I was so excited, but nervous at the same time to face different wrestler in the Bowie Tournament. Me and other wrestler that are in the same weight class as me (which was 132lb) went to the locker room, where we are going to weight in. After 4 or 5 minutes of waiting in line, I was up to be weight in. After I step in to the scale to check my weight, I was devastated to see that I gain one or two pound and a referee told me that I was unable to wrestle. After I weight myself, I went to the wrestling room, lay down in the wrestling mat, cover myself with my hoodie, and started to cry. I was looking forward to wrestle in the Bowie Tournament and maybe probably place to have a chance in the state tournament, but all my hope has been shattered into piece and all I can do is to cry it out. After 10 or 15 minutes of crying in sorrow, I called my mom to tell her what happen, watched my teammates wrestle, and help around in the
When a person walks into a building to see a live wrestling event they do not know what to expect. They wonder who will be wrestling. They wonder where their seats are. All of the suspense gets them ready for the show. The suspense gets them pumped and ready to for the show to start.
However I had to persevere and learn to take his place not only watch over my siblings but to teach them what he taught me. Now growing up with such a big family like everyone else with a big family knows how you will get annoyed with each other so there is always a want to be out of the house so my mother pushed all of us into a sport or sports that we had an interest in. As I was moving into our new house my cousin came up to me and suggested I should try out for wrestling. Hesitant at first, I decide to try out since I had nothing much better to do.To put it simply the first week was hectic and chaos; so much conditioning it was ridiculous. However though all this mess I met the head coach, the one and only coach Jesse Singh. Everyday he would give us a speech and I was fired up to push the limits of my body until it stopped then I pushed some more. He instilled not only my passion to wrestle but to strive to always want to do better and exceed expectations. It didn 't even stop there as I continue to wrestle for him he installed confidence,leadership skills, and comrade. I never tried out a lot of other sports since I wrestled year round but I did try California Cadet Corps or