Personal Narrative: My Sport

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It all started my freshman year, I would have never joined track if I had not been assigned to coach Rosenthal my first marking period. Looking back I had not yet found the sport that I was truly passionate about. The sports my parents had me trying were tennis taekwondo and swimming and team sports like basketball and waterpolo. I never had stamina so I thought I could get some by running track. First day after dying and cramping up with the distance team coach Rosenthal suggested that I try throwing and that's when I found the sport. Sure enough I started out a little above average not really standing out. Still I fell in love with the sport. My teammate Ryans suggested I threw Discus and Javelin. As the season progressed I got better and better at Javelin and if it wasn't for a certain scrimmage my …show more content…

It was sunny day in March at Hunterdon Central High school. I remember walking to throwing area like any other novice thrower just a goofy skinny kid that was doing a sport for fun like any regular thrower. I had only threw 80ft at that point and was ranked like 7th but then it was my very last throw and I had already PRd at 86ft something and then I knew that the top 2 would make it out. Ryan had thrown 120 and stryker just threw 99ft for a big PR and no one was expecting it but on my last throw I wanted to make it good so I tried to have my chest up and go over my foot like the throwers I saw in the olympics and just let it go as hard and as fast as I could. And it felt amazing the way it released out of my hand and the feeling of satisfaction I got when I knew it was a good throw. I never thought It would go far or any of my throws would go far. But it did. It went 109ft and snagged me 2nd place on the team to continue on the varsity team in all the

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