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…
Even though I quit I still think about wrestling everyday.
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
wrestle. Well this is what is going through my mind as I am a senior. Should I sign up to wrestle for my senior year and continue to do what I loved the most for a huge piece of my life or should I just worry about my grades to get in a better college or trade school. Perhaps I should have just pushed it out and continued to wrestle. I shouldn’t even have to ask myself these questions at all. Wrestling has been a big part of my life for many years. I can’t just give it up because of the people around me.
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
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.
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.
I had little to no motivation for a while and thought that maybe wrestling wasn’t the sport for me. I had shown promise in practice but as soon as I got on the mat for a tournament or duel I just drew a blank. I wasn’t executing any of the techniques I had learned after so many repetitive drills. I wasn’t the only one that had faced such miserable losses but it felt like it. My teammates helped me through my rut by giving me additional advice during practice and being in my corner while I wrestled matches. It was a great feeling knowing that I had people who had my back whenever I needed help. The wrestling team was a close knit group that dealt with all our problems together. We worked hard and played hard together till none of us could go any further. We were each other’s motivation, rivals, and family on and off the mat. If I had any doubts about a match my team thought the exact opposite and made sure that I understood why they believed so. But what made us a strong unit was the fact that we had similar goals and values. None of us wanted to lose and planned to make it past districts. We all wanted to take home hardware not only for our own self recognition but also to bring back a trophy to put on our principal’s desk who just so happened to love the wrestling program about as much as our team. All of us valued the effort that was put into every early morning practice so no one looked down on each other. The connection we had as a team made my experience wrestling all the more worth
Gymnasts are more vulnerable to the onset of distorted eating than other teenagers in society, due to the very nature of what makes for athletic success in the sport. Gymnasts’ bodies have to be young, healthy, petite and muscular, therefore they have to do large amounts of conditioning and eat the proper amounts and type of food. The main factor to gymnasts being vulnerable to distorted eating is because they are at very young ages when they excel in the sport. Gymnastics is structured around young fit bodies, so these athletes are facing a lot of pure pressure and big decisions at young ages. They may start to restrict their diet because, in the sport, it is expected for them to have petite and fit bodies and they are receiving pressure from their coaches and others opinions. A Canadian study of youth gymnasts at an average age of 13.4 years old, reported that 10.5% saw themselves as overweight, 27% were worried about the way they looked and 39% reported dieting behaviors (momsteen.com). When gymnasts restrict their food intake it will not enhance their performance, instead it will harm it because of their weakened bodies condition. They decide to reduce their food intake because of what their body, as a gymnast, is supposed to look like. With the average age of gymnasts being 13.4 years old, they are at the age where it is very easy to feel insecure about their body due to others around them, but it is very unhealthy for high-level gymnasts to not be fueling their body with the proper foods thy need. The sports nature also plays a large role in how far the athletes will go for success. Gymnastics is a very involving sport that requires very long training hours for the young athletes. The proper amount of training hours for the ...
It is rather, a fight. A fight in which each combatant must push their-self to
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.
Starting the season as the second ranked wrestler in the state, I was just where I wanted to be, noticed, but not the "top dog". I did well during the season; not losing to anybody in the 3A classification. I didn't do quite what I wanted, but I wasn't going to complain. A broken hand after the second weekend of competition didn't help any, but I fought through it and kept my eyes set on one opponent, one goal, one match, six minutes.
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.
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.
I started wrestling in junior high school. I never thought that I would have a successful career within included my high school, college, after college, and my coaching career.
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