Personal Narrative: My Future Passion In Sports Writing

Growing up in a suburb thirty minutes south of Boston I had a normal childhood like most kids, except for one little thing. I went to school, hung out with friends, and played many, many sports, typical normal stuff for a kid, right? My mother was the one who really got me into sports. She taught me how to hit a baseball, shoot a basketball, and took me to see some of the greatest sports teams play in Boston. The thing I did that most likely many kids my age did not do was get up early to watch Sports Center on ESPN. Then as I started to watch the show, it somehow became a religion to myself. For years I could remember starting in fifth grade still going to graduation, I would get up early to watch it. Early as in I would get up at six in the morning to be ready before the show started, then head to school. The best Sports Center to watch is always the seven in the morning show. It integrates all of the games that happened not many hours before, and also a quick quote for many of the recurring topics in sports. To say that I was mesmerized would be an understatement. Watching Sports Center early all those mornings for seven years made me find my future passion in sports writing.

Coming into high school, I had many worries, most of them were nonsense. I kept thinking of how scary it was going to be on the bottom level of the school now, as the school I went to had grades seven and eight on the top floor as well. Everyone says that high school was going to be hard and the harder part was going to be finding what you wanted to do in life. I always pride myself on getting the best grades that I could in school. Specifically I wanted to get better grades when writing assignments. I can talk about things for hours on end, but when it is time to put pen to paper, my mind just