Why I Choose To Be Here At Reinhardt University

I am Connor Bean, a Freshman at Reinhardt University. I hail from a town on the east coast of Florida called Stuart, where I have lived for 18 years. Also, I am the only boy and the eldest of 4 kids to my mother and father. Reinhardt and Georgia are somewhat very different from what I am use to back at home in Florida, especially without the beach, but I already have loved every moment of North Georgia in my time being here so far because it is somewhere completely new to me and I feel I will like this place the whole time I am here. There are many reasons why I choose to be here at Reinhardt, first off Lacrosse. I play for the Men’s Lacrosse team here at Reinhardt and it has always been a dream of mine to play a sport, especially one I love,

All throughout elementary school and middle school you could not keep me inside anywhere too long or else I may lose it, I need to be outside doing something, literally anything outdoors. Every day was a different sport, at a different time, at a different location, and I never got tired of it. It was not until high school where I finally started to settle down and pick out the sports I wanted to focus on. Throughout high school I was a three sport athlete until my Senior year. For my first three years I swam in Fall, played soccer in the Winter, and finished it off with lacrosse in the Spring. Each sport I had played for a reason, I swam actually for as long as I can remember but I did join a team to swim competitively when I was about 6 years old. My family got me into swimming because they grew up with it too, between my family members being Florida state qualifier in swimming in high school as well as being on the USA Olympics Team for swimming. They inspired me to swim and actually push myself to stay with it in high school and I still love to do it when I get the chance. Soccer was not because of family but mainly because of me. I realized that I am way too small to play American Football at high school and any level past

Being a huge and loving sports fan in almost every sport I thought what not better than to have my career in it too, this leading to my choice of being in the Sports Studies program. At the moment I am between two career paths through, being an Athletic Director at the high school or college level and being a college or professional sports coach. I feel I would be happy at either job. Becoming an Athletic Director I would really enjoy because I love being around kids in general, teaching and coaching them up in sports along with life. I have coached youth lacrosse all throughout high school career. I decided to take up coaching with the local rec lacrosse league who I played for in my youth days and it is the same league that I continued to coach in. My first year coaching I was the assistant coach to my high school lacrosse coach’s team and decided that I wanted to continue that path. That following year a teammate of mine and I were co-coaches to a U-11 lacrosse team and I really loved the experience teaching kids and watching them grow on and off the field. The third year I finally got a team all to myself to coach another U-11, with some assistance from another teammate. That same summer there were situations going on with travel teams in the area where they all disappeared, with the situations going on I decided to found and run a new youth travel lacrosse organization, so my players