Personal Narrative: Lessons Learned In American Football

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The doubts everyone has put on me was wrestling. My family doubted me because they were surprised that I did it. I disliked wrestling at first, I did it because of my brother. One day my brother comes back from practice and he was boasting on how he was good at it, this and that, I told him if I join it I probably can beat him, so he told the coach that I was going to be going to preseason from now on. The only ones who believed in me were my coaches because on how fast I was learning JV. When we went to our first duel we faced two teams and we beat both of them. I lost my first match but I won my other two matches. Later in the season the Varsity Coach asked for me and he took me up in varsity and I was supposed to be just a practice partner

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