My Personal Experiences Of Basketball And Football

Early childhood I was involved in playing two sports which were basketball and football until the time came that I had to choose one. My initial decision was basketball until I was influenced to switch sports by my closest friends just when I thought I was committed in playing basketball. My parents were not very keen on me playing sports, but had tons of support from my friends and siblings. The high school I attended which was Alief Taylor high school had a very strong recruiting system which was because of the coaches we had and talented athletes. Teachers and coaches played a huge role on my future while I was in high school and it was up to me determine how my future was going to be. I was not a varsity football player until my senior year and were many time when I felt like I was going to quit, but my friends and coaches recognized that I had talent and continued to

The feeling of my bone snapping in my knee during practice knowing that the injury was going to make me miss some of the games at the start of the season. My official visit to Wake Forest University and seeing a dead body in the health building and also hearing the coaches tell me, “We are offering you a full athletic scholarship to attend Wake Forest.” Finally, my last high school football game concluding in a loss in the playoffs to Lamar high school. All of these memories affected me in ways in which Coackley states, “changing or ending sport participation.” Getting injured was a quick way to realize that anything can happen and how suffering from an injury could end sport participation. Getting a scholarship immediately made me think about the influence and encouragement of my friends and coaches about participating in football. After my last high school game made me realize that I can’t play football forever and that it is going to come to an end one