Nerves shaking, heart racing, William Barnes stepped into lane five at the 2012 Ohio High School Track and Field championships for the 110-meter hurdles. One of the nine competing against him was Donovan Robertson, who broke the national high school record earlier that year. Now a senior on the Kent State track team Barnes, knew he just had to run with Robertson. That day he didn’t catch him, finishing second. It was at that meet where Barnes met Kent State head coach and director of track and field Bill Lawson. After the meet Lawson approached Will and his coach, Kevin Tooson, to talk about what Kent could do for Barnes. Lawson told Barnes that he would be able to help him not only athletically but also as a student and a man. Barnes …show more content…
“As an athlete he’s dropped his 200-meter and hurdle times. He’s become a leader on the track and he’s matured in the classroom. He’s really become an all-around student athlete, and the face you’d want for your organization.” Through all his accomplishments, Will has remained humble. Roommate and teammate Roosevelt Dotson said Barnes is a great friend. “He’s humble and he’s always striving to be better and to help others get better," Dotson said. “He tries to stay positive, he’s always worried about others and he’s selfless.” Will has worked individually on the track since middle school, but he’s a team player. At Northland high school Will was apart of the 4x100-meter relay team that took second place at the state meet in 2009. His relay team at Kent holds the fourth fastest 4x100 time in school history and currently he has the eighth fastest hurdle time in the country. Barnes next target is the Olympics. “I have dual citizenship in the U.S. and Puerto Rico because my mother’s parents are Puerto Rican.” He ended up living with this grandparents during high school after his mother died of cancer in 2004. He would like to run for the Puerto
When I was accepted into the University of Oklahoma, I was not aware of the tradition or prestige that the football team carried. Moreover, I had no idea about the honor it was to don the crimson and cream in the arena of athletics. And, I never envisioned rooming with them. I enjoyed sports, but I loved reading and writing more. Initially, I was focused on building a collegiate career that one day would propel me to my goal of studying law. Yet, the more time I spent interacting with the athletes, the more parallels I noticed between their personalities and mine. Their diligence, perseverance and compassion were all traits that I could identify with since they were reflective of me. For the most part, the majority of the athletes were hungry to achieve and they desired knowledge at all costs; a combination that still resonates with me today.
In the years he was in high school he got some awards here and there. He was “Selected MVP of Toyota All-Star Classic” and “Selected SuperPrep All-America.” He had some good plays when he finished his junior year, he had 1,616 yards passing for 17 touchdowns and 1,530 yards rushing for 16 touchdowns. He was rated Number 4 prospect in Tennessee by Rivals.com. As a junior he got named
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He is proud of his team and the work they all completed; he strives to be an example and an inspiring figure. Beginning of 2015 he received a great opportunity to serve an Americorps term with Power Corps PHL. He appreciates PowerCorpsPHL for all the commitment and the unlimited support they put into the crew members and is honored for the opportunity to serve with the organization.
Tayo Oladele-Ajose joined the University of Iowa’s track program at age 15. She skipped her junior and senior year of high school through a special program offered at the Blank Honors Center. At the time she decided to quit the track team she was as a sophomore in college.
Just as the official was signaling the start of the race, Russell took off sprinting to the finish line. Isaiah and Dennis quickly joined the race, thinking they must have missed the start. Russell crossed the finish line first and turned to Isaiah and Dennis boasting, “I won. I’m the fastest. I’m the greatest!”
Looking back over the past 18 months of Will’s life, there has been tremendous personal growth. Counseling has helped Will to not place blame on himself for his past and to look forward to new opportunities in his life. It has helped him not to end relationships before he can get hurt and instead to have a positive outlook and cherish an important part of life. As far as what he intends to do in the future, it is good that he is involved with something that caters to his special abilities and hopefully will provide him a stepping stone to something he figures out he wants to do.
Throughout his childhood and teenage years Terry has shown strong determination to achieve his goals. As a child Terry had always wanted to play basketball for his school. Unfortunately, he was not very good at this sport. He practiced until in eighth grade when he made the basketball team. His coach advised him to take up a different sport such as running or soccer due to his short height. Although
On top of running with his athletes he has competed in numerous running events such as the monument 10k, the Henrico festival dash, Suffolk celebration community 5K run/1 mile walk, and the New Year's Day Resolution 10-K, 5-K, or 1-mile trail run. He runs these events to either help for the cause for example donating to the poor, people with cancer, or people with diseases or he just runs just to have fun. Even at 36 years old he is still competing at track meets just recently he just finished competing at the real deal track and field classic at Boo Williams in Suffolk Virginia. He ran the 200-meter dash and he gathered his all-American team from 1999 and ran the four by 200-meter relay one last time. They all had fun reuniting with each other to run again and they won the adult section of the four by 200-meter relay even if they all ran as slow as a week in jail. After he finishes his running he always comes back to the school to help fundraise for the track and field team.
He absolutely loves helping out his community and his fans regardless of how incredibly hard it might be. With his ambassador job he
William James is considered by many people to be the most insightful and stimulating of American philosophers, and the second of the three great pragmatists, the link between Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey. William James was born in New York City on January 11, 1892 and would later become a leading American psychologist and philosopher in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was the oldest of five children in the household and a sibling to Henry James, who later became a famed novelist and writer (A&E Television Networks n.d.). His mother complained that “the trouble with him is that he must express every fluctuation of feeling, and especially every unfavorable symptom, without reference to the effect of those around him.” His life culminated in a reconstruction of spirituality and consciousness in relation to physiology and neuroscience. His life was also spent in perpetual diagnosis of backache, eyestrain, and nervous disorders. Unlike his siblings Garth Wilkinson, Robertson, and Alice, James’s psychological distress and physical disorders
Micah Harris was a man who was no stranger to success. A 2001 Poland graduate who was a gifted athlete and a brilliant student, Harris did not let his accomplishments go to his head. He remained humble and used his talents to uplift others. Harris’s philosophy has certainly impacted my life in my strive for success. I myself have also always believed that it is important to remain true to oneself once you have achieved success. I have done my best to conduct myself with humility and remain respectful and compassionate towards others when I achieved success both on the field and in the classroom.
Wayne is a talented, intelligent student whose strong values and respect for others make him an ideal candidate for your undergraduate program. If granted acceptance into your program, I am most certain that he will continue to continue to grow and achieve great things in
very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career,
Every year he donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the government, particularly the police force, to keep our country safe and thriving. And twelve years ago, when his mother died of breast cancer, at the age of 77, he put three million dollars out of his own pocket into cancer research and treatment. Despite his success, he kept his kind and charitable heart, and because of this he lived the best possible life he could and improved other’s lives while doing