Imagine if you were born into a world where sports were nonexistence, how different would it be from your life today? Would anything even change at all or would your whole world be changed completely? If you’re anything like me, living in a world where sports don't exist would look nothing like the life you’re living today. Growing up sports was one of the very first things I was introduced too and growing up they have consumed my life. Does that thought scare you, the thought of sports dictating your whole life? Well for me I don’t mind at all. I love that I’ve spent more than half my life playing softball and volleyball. Sports have brought me some of the greatest life lessons, have introduced me to amazing people, and have kept me …show more content…
If you have or when you do there is a tremendous amount of life lessons that appear, and that’s one of the greatest things of sports is it teaches you things beyond the sport. There’s so many times in my life I’ve used something I’ve learned from sports to help me through something. One lesson I’ve learned is ‘anything is possible and as long as you work for it, you can achieve it.’ This was definitely proven to me during a regional volleyball game, a game you wouldn’t believe happened if you weren’t there yourself, but I swear it happened. We were playing Auburn in the second round of regionals and the chance to play for the championship-we had won the first game and lost the second game, but the third game is where my team and I made history. We were down 13- 24, we just got the ball back and I was coming into serve, nerve racking, right? But I was ready for this moment and I definitely wasn’t ready for my senior year to be over. I believed in my team and knew we could do it and I was right. We came back all the way to 24-24 before Auburn scored again and we got the ball right back and took the win. In that game I accomplished such an incredible thing and received the biggest confidence boost and learned I can do anything as long as I try. My team and I won a regional and were in the Sweet 16. Another lesson I’ve learned through sports is that it’s okay to make mistakes and at times you’re going to fail but that’s okay.As humans and especially as athletes of course no one wants to fail, but you must fail to learn and grow as an athlete. In the end the only thing that matters is that you keep trying and never give up. Also being an athlete making mistakes it has helped me evaluation wise because I can evaluate my mistakes on my own and challenge myself to fix them.When looking at a person it’s easy to pick up on their mood and how they’re feeling which is a problem I struggled with playing sports.
My senior year of baseball was quickly coming to an end. I knew the only games we had left were the playoff games. It was the first round of the state playoffs. We were the fourth seed, so we had to play a number one seed. I knew it was going to put our team to the test, but I knew we had a chance to beat them. We had a good last practice before game day, and I felt confident in my team and felt like we were ready for the game.
Baseball has been a part of me for quite a while now. I have done something baseball related each week for the past several years. It has really changed what I like to do in my spare time, and it has also changed my priorities. This was the first sport I would have played, and I haven’t played a different sport since the start of playing baseball. There were and still are so many ways baseball has changed my life.
My sophomore year eager to begin baseball season, I've have so much detonation and disappointment from the prior year. The team and i had been preparing our butts off this off season. We were determined to break the curse of the baseball team. Out of the past teams no one never made it passed the fourth round and we were willing to do anything to change that. This was the year that we told our self's that were we going to make it the distance and nothing was going stand before us. We needed to be the team to recall as the ones who broke the condemnation and made it to state.
All throughout high school I played on the softball team. Proceeding the season before where we went undefeated with a district championship, my senior year we were supposed to be unstoppable. We received a few new players to add on to our army and the entire school was counting on our run to state. I was so excited to have an amazing end to my high school softball career, but unfortunately my dream was cut short when we lost in the first round of districts. I did not know that loss would change me the way it did.
We were playing against the McAllen High School. I was a starter post on the team we were losing by 10 the first half of the game. We had 5 minutes of halftime the team and I were so upset that we were losing so we decided to pray to gain our confidence back. Once halftime was over starting five went back in we started well with defense once again, we stole some passes, but didn’t make all baskets to catch up to. Until last quarter I made 12 points and I was so happy to make 12 points for the to catch up against our opponent. Our team was still a few behind at the end of the game we didn’t win but I was proud of myself for making those 12 points for the team even if we did not win. My teammates and coaches were so proud of all of us not just me but of each one us for working together not to lose by a lot and not making ourselves look like fools. It was the first since tournaments that I realized that we had a great team that would support each other during a game. Success comes from people who believe in you and support you through things you go through. Success is nor found nor is it a miracle, success is created by you own self from being prepared of how to succeed in life and how you are going to get there because you cannot find success you have to make success find you in. Success is not miracle to be success is something thst
Throughout my life, my work ethic, my mental strength, and the skills I have learned, are largely because of my athletic background and all of the things I have gone through with them. To be good at sports, one does not have to
Each game, my passion grew. Each team, new memories and lifelong friends were made. Sports sometimes make me feel disappointment and at loss; but it taught me to be resilient to a lot of things, like how to thrive under pressure and come out on top. Being the team captain of my high school’s football and lacrosse team showed me how having a big responsibility to bring a group together to work as one is compared to many situations in life. Currently playing varsity football, varsity lacrosse, and track I take great pride in the activities I do. Staying on top of my academics, being duel enrolled at Indian River State College, working three nights a week, and two different sport practices after school each day shaped my character to having a hard work
Along the rocky road that is my softball career, my team and I have learned quite a few lessons. Not only did we get to know each other and the game of softball, we were also taught about life. We learned that to get where we wanted to be, we had to push ourselves, constantly practicing and working hard. Our team also had to overcome our many obstacles through perseverance. Another thing we had to learn was how to believe in ourselves and each other. As a player on that team, these things that the game has taught us- working hard, persevering, and believing- have become my laws of life.
One incident that happened to me that change how I thought about sports was when I first started playing soccer. It all started when my mom said that I should join a sport to get me more active. It took me awhile to choose soccer at first because there were so many sports to choose from. I told my mom I wanted to play soccer. She signed me up to play for a non competitive league (GYSA) so I can learn the basics of the sport. She also told me to play I would have to maintain good grades. After hearing that i always tried my best in soccer and school.
The decisions we make with the actions we choose throughout our lives, will help define who we are even through failure. While growing up I always played sports, both softball and soccer. Even though I was not very good, I always tried my best to have fun. It has always been my passion to succeed at everything I do and atleast try my hardest to become the best I can. While I have never been the biggest or the best player on any of the local city teams I played with, there was always a stigma of being little and not good enough.
Everyone has life experiences. Some can be new and fun, like the first time ever going to Disney World as a child. Meeting your favorite movie characters and seeing stories come to life. Other can be tragic, like losing a loved one or suffering a car crash. No matter the experience we all learn from them. I am here to tell you about an experience of mine that I went through at an early age. At the age of 15, I told my parents that I wanted to play football. The sport of football really changed my view on life and taught me that things don’t come easy and that if you really want something, you’re going to have to put in the time and work. One of the many experiences of being in the sport of football is that practice is one of the toughest things I’ve ever went through, physically and mentally. Football taught me a lot about team work and working with others on doing and executing a job. Football made me faster stronger smarter and wiser. I had great coaches who always encouraged me to keep going whenever I wanted to quit because something was too hard or I was feeling
Endurance through hard times, while still having a smile to offer others is an important way to look at sports and inevitably life. Multiple times in life I will encounter hardships. I may want to give up but, the need to persevere will always conquer all. When my team would lose a game it would have been easier to just give up; however, our coaches taught us that it just meant we needed to work harder. Putting in the extra effort would only make us a better team and better individuals.
Sport has had a big role in my life. It has helped me become the person i am today. Most sports that i have participated in throughout my life have been team sports, therefore i have learnt to work with different types of people in different types of environments. An example is cheerleading, this is a very stressful sport where everyone has to get along or else what you are trying to execute will not work. This has affected who i am because without this i would not be able to communicate properly with others and in the future i will be able to adapt to different opinions and personalities.
Sports teach you to be resiant. They teach that even when there is defeat you must move on to the next opportunity to compete.
Jeff Kemp, a retired professional NFL quarterback, once stated, “Sports teach positive lessons that enrich America even while revealing its flaws” (Kemp). Athletics offer so much more than the joy of game day and the thrill of a win. Being involved in sports holds the key to a world filled with passion, excitement, and once in a lifetime opportunities. There is nothing better than seeing the student section arrive in full force or hearing the school fight song chanted before kickoff. However, when life moves on and leaves sports behind, the lessons it has instilled in athletes never disappears. The play calls may be foggy and the jersey will be too tight, but what was innocently learned in the jersey shines out at an older age. Although life lessons can be learned through everyday activities, lessons such as teamwork, self-confidence, and dealing with failure are only truly learned through sports by young athletes.