Personal Essay: Overcoming Adversity In American Football

Having the capability and knowledge to overcome adversity with dignity and pride is another strength in which I am proud of myself for acquiring. In my senior year of high school, I was bullied on my soccer team. A group of my teammates and their parents did not like my father as their assistant coach. This group had tried everything they could to remove to my father from this position. When they realized that all of their attempts had failed, they had resorted to finding ways of upsetting my father by targeting my sister and myself. It came to our attention that during a week a practice, this particular group was evaluating my sister and I and were deciding on who would be the better “target” to bully. My sister was the soccer player who

He told me that these next two months would be emotionally draining for me and that the girls would not stop bullying me. It had even gotten to the point where I was missing school because I was so upset from the practice or game the day before. I initially did not want to quit the team. I worked extremely hard that past summer to make sure that I was in the best shape I could possibly be for the season. I loved playing soccer; I spent the last twelve years dedicating all of my time and energy to the sport. This was my senior year, my last year to do the thing that I loved the most. However, I soon realized that it would not be fair to me to play on that team and listen to all of the immature things they would say about me. So I decided to quit. After hearing my decision to quit the team, my sister immediately decided to quit the team too. She did not want to play on a team that disrespected her sister. During the following three weeks, I had received “hate” in person and on the internet. In school, the girls would talk to other people and say how I am emotionally unstable and need to go kill myself. There was an Instagram account made by one of them that just made fun of my family and