A life learning experience that I have acquired over the years is that nothing is handed to you. If you want something or want to be good at something you have to work for it.
When I reached seventh grade I was encouraged to join football to get more confidence in myself and get in better shape. I didn’t know much about the sport, but I was certain that I would become good at it. My first year of football I was put on the B team, which came to no surprise to me since it was the first year of playing the sport. When football season was over, I realized I had a pretty horrific season, so I started practicing every day until it was football season again. I tried out for the team again my eighth-grade year and started on the A team for football.
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I played football until ninth grade year having a great football season that year, but then another sport caught my attention which was soccer. I was fascinated by the tricks and skills the players would do. So towards the end of the school year, I would skip football to go play soccer with my friends in their class period. When I first played soccer I sucked at it, I couldn’t even kick the ball correct. When I would go play soccer with my friends I would always be one of the last ones to get picked and I always despised getting picked last. Before the school year ended I told my friends “When I come back I’m going to make it on the team” but they just mocked me said “Yea right man”. So that summer I was determined to come back and make the soccer team. All summer I practiced my butt off to make sure I would make it on the team. For hours on end, I would …show more content…
So when the soccer tryouts began I was there ready to give it everything I had. The next day they posted the results in the athletic field house, I searched for my name and saw it on the JV team. All my friends were surprised that I had made the team because last year I didn’t know a thing about soccer, and now I had become pretty decent at the sport in only a short amount of time. I was proud of my accomplishment, I had become just as good as my friends in just less than a year while they had been playing the sport since they were little kids. Soccer is a sport in which you have to have good stamina. So before every practice, we had to run one or two miles and I notice during all the soccer practice that I was real good at running long distance. I was always the first to finish and I was hardly tired. Coach Loyd a tall, bulky, pinkish skinned man came up to me one day and stated “Isa you should consider running track and cross-country you seem real good at it.” I replied not really wanting to get out my comfort zone “I’m not sure coach but I'll give it a try.” My junior year I made the varsity soccer team and easily made the varsity cross-country and track team for long distance running. Even though I made the varsity team for the teams I still practiced hard to be the best I can be. During my junior year, I collected a mass amounts of medals for track and cross-country. Going to
Playing soccer has also brought my family closer together. Both my parents and my sisters would come to all my games and support me. No matter the outcome of the game my family was always there for me. My family has been at my important games and the games that I am not so proud of. Even though they have seen the worst of the sport I still love having them watching me play. They have been the reason I have never given up. And I love making them proud. In the past year, my travel team folded and I thought that I would never have another team to play on. It was very upsetting knowing that I would not be playing with the same girls that I have played with my entire life. Yet, I joined an intramural team and started playing again. I played on a co-ed team for two more years before I graduated high school. On the intramural tea...
My 8th grade year around the month of February people were starting to recognize spring football was right around the corner. I was a middle school stud says most coaches I played bandit and sometimes safety full time. Tine seemed to fly faster and faster day by day the team was coming ! Spring had finally come and walking on the I was a pretty favorable upcoming freshman by coaches and players. The first couple of practices were great I never known so much went into high school football but I eventually found out. My knee was hurting a lot my 7th grade year because of ball that
Throughout my life, my work ethic, my mental strength, and the skills I have learned, are largely because of my athletic background and all of the things I have gone through with them. To be good at sports, one does not have to
At the end of the three weeks the team had an inter squad scrimmage so the coaches could actually see how we performed in an actual game. I went into that scrimmage very relaxed and confident and came out feeling very confident and knowing that I did what I needed to do to make the team. The day finally came where we found out if we made the team or not.
Everyone has life experiences. Some can be new and fun, like the first time ever going to Disney World as a child. Meeting your favorite movie characters and seeing stories come to life. Other can be tragic, like losing a loved one or suffering a car crash. No matter the experience we all learn from them. I am here to tell you about an experience of mine that I went through at an early age. At the age of 15, I told my parents that I wanted to play football. The sport of football really changed my view on life and taught me that things don’t come easy and that if you really want something, you’re going to have to put in the time and work. One of the many experiences of being in the sport of football is that practice is one of the toughest things I’ve ever went through, physically and mentally. Football taught me a lot about team work and working with others on doing and executing a job. Football made me faster stronger smarter and wiser. I had great coaches who always encouraged me to keep going whenever I wanted to quit because something was too hard or I was feeling
I knew I would make the team but I didn't know if I would start so I was nervous. The end of the school day arrived,and I headed out to the football field after changing. I was hyped for tryouts. All of my friends were there, and we were all going to be on a team.
When I started playing football I was about eleven years old. I played for my park organization which was Brown Park. My first team name I played for was the Titians. The coach for the Titians is the one who actually made me come play because he had seen me in the basketball gym. He said I could move for my size and would like me to play with him. I said no but then he went talk to my mom and next thing I know my mom tells me I am playing football next year. I was horrible the first couple weeks but got better later in the season. I became one the best defense lineman and offensive lineman players on the team. Then when I got older I played football in middle school at Acadian Middle and Lafayette Christian Academy. My first year playing running back was when I went to Acadian Middle. In my middle school years I was just the power back. Players, people, and even coaches all thought I could not have been a speed back. But, when I got to high school at Lafayette Christian Academy, I started showing a glimpse that I can be an overall line back. It did not truly happen until the biggest play of my career came. When I told my teammate, Sterling Miller
Through constant effort, practice and studying I was able to become the second team right tackle sophomore year and through more effort I am now starting at right tackle on the varsity team. I am a living example of the cliché “hard work pays off”. Football is not easy; it pushes people to a higher standard, which cannot be achieved in any other way.
Being able to work hard for what you want is something I learned when I was very young. I have seen my sister compete first hand and see the intensity she brings to her game of softball. It has helped
As the soccer season progressed on through my senior year of high school, so many thoughts were running through my head. Most of them about how I made it to be Captain of the boys’ varsity team without even playing my eighth grade year. Which to many people was the most vital year with high school soccer being the next step. When I was in eighth grade I tried out for the travel team just like every year and I thought I was to be a starter.
Therefore, I joined a soccer team following the example of my brother who also played. Even after all those years, I continue to play soccer. I participate on both my school team and local club team. Playing on both teams has helped to shape my personality, values, and help me learn responsibility.
Once I realized the potential and the opportunities that I had, football became of high priority in my life; all I did was play football and lift to get stronger for football. Even in the off-season, when I wasn’t playing football, I was in the weight room training 6 days a week for football. Come senior year, I was named team captain and my traits of wanting to lead the games as a child translated to my football years, as I would lead my teammates on the football
When I entered high school I continued playing basketball and running track. But in high school these sports were more competitive. I wasn’t a great basketball player, but I wanted to be. I began to train during the off season, especially for basketball, playing every day in the summer. And the work paid off, I made the varsity basketball team my sophomore year, and also placed seventh in the state track meet running the 300 meter hurdles. But that only caused me to set more expectations for myself. The varsi...
Then came the senior year. The season came around and my coach, Coach Fletcher, had big expectations for me. I suffered through soccer conditioning and lost a few pounds from it. But I’m getting ahead of myself. the spring season before school ball was my biggest nightmare.
I hardly played at all during my freshman season but I knew that it would get better and that we were only freshman. After freshman year I started actually putting work in to make myself better. I became more dedicated to what I was doing. During my sophomore season I started offense and defense on the junior varsity team.