Personal Narrative: My First Football Coach

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I started playing football in my freshman year of high school. I quickly went from freshman football to JV, and by the fifth game, I was the starting wide receiver for the Amherst Comets! In the first two seasons, we went 0 and 10, and something needed to change. Amherst hired a new head coach who changed everything in our program from top to bottom. Now with this new coach, I had to prove myself to him. I had fallen in love with football at this point. Knowing I was good just made me love it even more. Junior year was just this past year. It was finally our year for Amherst to get our name back in the conversation. The new head coach had expressed turning programs around; he knew how to run things and get the most out of his players. During summer practices, the tone was just different. We knew his coach meant business. The team morale was much higher going into week 1 as we had high hopes. But we quickly went down in the score and everyone thought it was going to be the same old loss. When hope was lost and we were …show more content…

It was our first win in just over 3 years at home, I guess you could say everyone was pretty happy when the students rushed to the field after the big win. We had something to prove this year: we are not going to be the laughingstock of our conference. We ended our years 3 and 7 and don't get me wrong we had our days when we just would get killed but that is what happens when we play in such a hard conference. 3 and 7 is a lot better than last year. Sadly though I had to have an injury that just ended my junior season, it was week 9 vs the best time in our conference by far. We stayed with them throughout the game. It was not even halftime yet when we were driving down the field looking to punch in another touchdown when it happened I had a nice grab for around 20 yards and some kid on the other team was just making a play and sadly when he hit me and I felt on my side I ended up breaking my

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