My Football Journey Research Paper

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College essay My football journey and how it represents me and who I am is significant in my life and has had a significant impact. My journey started as an 8th grader at Piqua. At the end of my 8th-grade year, I decided to transfer to Georgia and attend Westside High School Augusta High School. There, I played freshman football for the team. It was an amazing year, but it taught me very important lessons and showed me things I've never seen. Coming from a school that had all the resources and had some of the best teachers and the most money in the school district I was used to having it all, getting tons of equipment, having nice helmets, a good field and stadium to play on, and always having school support there it was different everyone was in their lanes and the school was one of the poorest in the district the high school was only one floor there weren't very many teachers that cared about their job. The football program was not so great either as our locker room was very small and the coaches who coached didn't look like they belonged, we had very limited equipment and we practiced on a half field made of grass with tons of mud puddles everywhere, trees on the front and side with there always being bugs …show more content…

I was somewhere in Georgia, far from my family and did not know my way around, so I moved back home to Piqua after a year of coming back. I had to make up all of my freshman classes as Westside did not send over any of my transcripts. During this time I was a walk-on during the summer camp, and I did not get any of the benefits any other players had. I had no helmet, not even a locker. They made me get dressed in the water room. I was determined not to give up and prove I belonged that summer. I tried and showed my best effort to get a chance on varsity or even just get a chance to start at

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