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
I played soccer since I was seven, as of the last few years I played at a very high level. I have represented Ohio South two times at a regional showcase, I have been invited to participate in a camp in Manchester, England and attended the camp twice. Also last Season for the Newark High School soccer team I was named first team all league and third team all central district. Soccer was the first sport I truly loved to do, I wanted to be the best. I work hours upon hours to master whatever part of the game I wanted to improve on. Soccer has taught me to have a great work ethic, and that mentality came when I was cut from the state team the first time I tried out. It was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, I was destroyed, and I thought I was not good but I knew I could do better. The next year I worked, I got bigger, stronger, faster, my soccer I.Q. was higher;therefore, overall I was a much better player. The result of that work, was that I made the team, but not only, I made the starting line up. After that I knew I could accomplish anything I put my mind to.
It was a summer of 2000 during my first year of my high school, the soccer tryouts had just been announced. I was so excited to hear about tryouts, and I couldn’t wait to start playing for my high school soccer team. I met with the soccer coach of the High School team to discuss my interest to become a part of his team. The coach was very impressed after the meeting, he told me he had never met a person that has so much ambition of playing soccer and he couldn’t wait to see me to be a part of his team. I was fully confident in myself that I would make the team and impress the coach in the first soccer tryouts, after a few days had gone by, the physical check-up form had to be filled by a family doctor, and returned before the tryouts. I rushed
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
From an early age I always knew I would be playing soccer my whole life. My dad showed me the ropes of how to play and got me interested right away. By the age of three I had started playing, and to this day I have not stopped. Soccer has been a huge part of my life and I don’t know where I would be today if I never played. I met some amazing people playing soccer including my coaches who encouraged me and told me never to give up as well as my teammates who became my friends and were always there for me.
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.
Throughout my life, I had always received recognition for being very agile and quick. My first day of Middle School consisted of the track and field coach attempting to persuade me to join the school’s athletics program. I had previously never been apart of an athletics team, and was willing to take advantage of the opportunity. Throughout my three years of middle school, I was the one consistent member of the school’s track and field team and had an overall successful personal record. Coaches from opposing school would praise me leaving me feeling very confident about myself.
I started at slot receiver and middle linebacker, it was pretty nice but tiring. Our first game of the season was at Summit Jr High and we knew they werent good, so we knew we would win. After school that day we all got ready in out football clothes and cleats but the bus was extra late, so we had to wait a long time. “When the heck is this freaking bus getting here, we are going to be late,” said coach.
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
I remember how bad it hurt to be told I didn’t make the team. Many of the kids quit when they found out they were on the B team. I was so emotional inside but I never complained, I showed up to practice everyday, I worked hard everyday, and I listened to the coach’s criticism and used it to make myself a better player. I was even on JV until my junior year in high school.
I take pride in winning and learn from losing and respect my opponent. I see the pride my family takes while watching me play and this feels right. Growing up in a family where everyone played sports, who were all competitive and unwilling to give up on anything and who wanted to win and finish the job no matter what the conditions were, I feel, has started to prepared me for the challenges I will face at Saint Francis High School. But most of all I will bring an open mind. One that will hope to see first hand the ways of a Holy Cross high school and will learn over the next four years more of the schools traditions and with the assistance of teachers and peers.
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.
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
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.
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.
When I got to high school soccer, everything changed. Soccer is so much different. I remember my first game, first play, i had the ball I got hit and i looked at my dad and he kinda shrugged. It took a lot to learn how to play at this new level. I worked hard through freshman, sophomore, and junior years.