Personal Narrative: Why I Love Sports

There’s not much guaranteed in this world, but one thing that is guaranteed is that growing up everyone had a hobby or something they really enjoyed doing. For me that “one thing” was sports because I really enjoyed physical activities. Unlike the other kids that enjoyed and specialized in one sport, I loved every single sport. This was due to the fact that I just could not pick one sport to get really good at. While everyone around me started to get really good at one sport or so, I was always the kid that was a jack of all trades or a ace of none, when it came to sports. One summer day in 2008 my friends and I decided to hang out at a park. We brought all types of sports equipment and just hung out for the day. During the day we would play

After playing some of the sports we ritually play, a couple of my friends pulled out lacrosse sticks, I had never seen or heard anything about lacrosse in my whole life until that moment. My friends started to have a catch and I was immediately intrigued because it was a totally unfamiliar sport. To me it looked like a hybrid between hockey and football, which were two of my favorite sports to play and watch. After watching my friends play catch, they showed me some videos of lacrosse games and at that point I already knew I had to play this sport. As soon as I got home I went to my parents and asked if I could go to a sporting goods store to buy a lacrosse stick. Since I was still young and just starting up I got a really basic lacrosse stick but even with that I was beyond ecstatic because I would finally be able to play with my friends and learn more about this interesting sport. As I went onto middle school, I found out that there was a lacrosse team and I decided to try out. I somehow ended up making the team but still at that point I was still in

As I went to my very first game of lacrosse I was beyond nervous because I had never played on a team for sports where I was very new to the sport. As my coach put me into the game, I had so much adrenaline and exhilaration just by being on that field. Then when I somehow scored in that game, I just fell in love with the sport due to the adrenaline rush it gave me like no other sport had. I loved it because it was such a fast paced sport and that it was one of the most physical sports known. As Felsenfeld states, “had a drug-like effect on me.” I loved the sport so much to the point where I had to play every single day as if it were a routine and if I did not then it would just feel wrong. As years went on, the better I became at lacrosse. To the point as soon as I entered high school, I was the only freshman to make varsity. As a freshman you would expect that even at the varsity level I would not get playing time and ride the bench because the older people come first, but the coach really loved the way I played and let me get a ton of playing time. Since I was a freshman getting so much playing time, recruiters from colleges started to come to my games to watch me play. As a freshman I got offers