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One of the biggest accomplishments that I feel I have achieved is being a captain for my soccer team when I was in grade 9 (overseas). Back when I was in Ethiopia, soccer was one of the biggest things we loved growing up. Soccer was the only thing available as a sport in our school, so being a captain of a team was kind of a big deal. My time as a captain taught me a lot of things about what being in a position of power means. To begin with I didn’t start out as a captain; I was just a member of the team. I loved soccer growing up, and I used to play it almost every day. For most people soccer wasn’t just a sport; it was a way to escape problems and truly feel happy even though the reality was far from it. In any case I was the most involved in my team, showing …show more content…
We did a lot of stuff together; we were practically brothers. But one time during our championship game against our rival school, our captain got into an accident and was unable to continue the game. I remember that game like it was just yesterday, when my friends and I played the most memorable game ever. The game started out with our team losing; our opponents were tough; they had strong defense and sharp offence. But that didn’t break our fighting spirit. Our captain told us to keep calm and not give up, no matter what. As the momentum of the game shifted to a tie, our captain was badly injured in an accident just before it was called half time. In the team dug out, our captain told me that it was up to me to lead the team to victory. I was scared bearing that kind of burden, but our captain reassured me that it would be okay and that he believed in me. And so I went and tried my best, but reality was much different than my expectations. Our opponent’s defense was impenetrable; we tried and tried, but it seemed futile. But I didn’t give up; our captain believed in me, he put the burden of winning the game on my shoulders after all. And then it happened; one of my teammates, Robel, had the
Ever since I was little I wanted to be a captain just like my older sister. Back then I thought it was just a cool label, but in my past three years as a TCHS cheerleader I have quickly learned the amount of dedication and hard work this position entails. I qualify for being a captain because I have a good attitude, work well with others, and always put in an effort to work hard.
For the past four years, I’ve been a cheerleader for Van Nuys Senior High School, granted that for two years I’ve been the captain. On surface level, a captain’s only job is to be the communicator, and representative for the coach as well as the team. As captain I performed responsibilities such as leading team conditioning, choreographing for the team, in addition to making sure the team is always ready. However, through cheer-leading I’ve learned that, holding the title “captain” is much more than that.
Another accomplishment that stood out to me was the founding and development of my Berks County Chemistry Outreach Club. Recruiting and managing my club members during freshman year was especially challenging. I remember struggling to create short and simple lesson plans, while keeping the students engaged and active. I recall students having difficulties with the concepts and theories. To help them review the material, I posted the meeting summaries on my website. Because of the lessons learned in previous years, my fourth year now runs smoothly and
Over my three year soccer career, my coach and teammates taught me lessons that I could never learn in a classroom or from a textbook, real life lessons. Though I spent a large portion of my first year warming the bench, my coach believed in letting every athlete play; so I played each game, even
Another accomplishment is that I help kids who are in transition from homeless have school supplies and food for my community service. I had faced a lot of challenges and a lot
I got on to the bus as fast as I could. I can’t believe we were going to play our rivals for the championship. We were on our way to go to Lake City to play the Titans. It seemed that we were missing somebody but we weren’t. Coach took a head count of the team and we all were on the bus accept for Alex, he broke his foot earlier in the season. Alex and his mom were following us in her van. When Alex got hurt we were lucky to make it to the championship. Alex was our star running back. Him and I were unstoppable when we were about to score. Alex and I are the best of friends. We have been friends since fourth grade. I told him to try football and he did, but he liked soccer. We made a deal I went out for soccer for a year, but he had to go out for football. Ever since he has went out for football. Alex and I have gone out for football for four years and they have been the best four years ever. The bus ride took forever, it seemed like it. The bus so noisy everybody had to yell to be heard. The coach couldn’t even hear the bus driver, and he was right next to the bus driver. We were finally there in Lake City. When we got into the locker room coach said, “Win or lose I want you to play your heart out and no matter what we will leave with our heads held high”. We meet in the hall and somebody on the other team says something nasty, they said, “You guys are going down today”. I wished everybody “good luck today” and “make the better team
An activity and achievement in my life would be being the Academy of Health Professions . This experience was very meaningful to me , because I learned many things that I didn't know about health and many of the procedures that were
Near the end of my freshmen year, I decided to audition for captain for the next school year. While I didn’t get chosen, I didn’t let it deter me.
One personal accomplishment that I am proud of is the fact that I fostered a baby some time ago. The baby had the fetal alcohol syndrome and with the help of my wife, I was able to make a positive impact in someone’s life and be there for the child when he needed me the most. The process of becoming a foster parent was not in my plans, but due to the need to keep this baby within the family, I stepped in and became certified as a foster parent. The process was long and sometimes it was challenging to meet the demands of the Department of Children and Families; such as classes, interviews, and homework while working two jobs. At the end, the reward of having the chance to be helpful to a person in need made it all worth it.
According to my coaches and trainers, my hard work and dedication is what really helped me the most on successfully becoming an important role in the team. Ever since I began participating with the soccer team, everybody was impressed on how good my skills and the way I would push everyone around instead of them pushing me since i was smaller, the seniors would call me out saying and telling everybody on how I would have a great future or become one of the good players the school would have. Thankfully god gave me the ability to be good at the sport i
It would have been his second year playing. He was so devoted to playing lacrosse, and I knew he wanted to continue playing throughout high school. Being that a majority of the team was composed of seniors, we wanted to make this year special. Just for him. The group of seniors created a phrase that we would say after we huddled up to discuss game plays. We would say “DD on three… DD on three” in the huddle. That phrase meant so much to us and gave us the motivation to perform better. We wanted to honor the season to our beloved friend and teammate. We also created stickers of his initials and his jersey number, and to this day, I have it adhered to my phone case. At every home game, we hung his jersey on the bench, and had a moment of silence for him. The adrenaline that rushed through my body, and the letters, “DD” that I drew on my face with face paint every game made me want to reach the championship and do so in his honor. We approached the last game that would determine if we would qualify to play in the championship or not. It was very hard to believe that we reached this point since we lost every game last season with the same players. It was all because of him. He gave us encouragement that we needed to win it all, and I knew that he was there with us at every game supporting us. It was a very close game, but unfortunately, we didn’t make the cut. We were all upset but none of us believed that we would get that far in the
My soccer career started when I was five years old. I have played on various travel teams and have devoted my childhood to bettering my skills and improving my game. The friendships and memories that I’ve made throughout my years of soccer are ones that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Soccer has taught me what it means to be a good teammate, how to be responsible, and what working hard to achieve my goals looks like. The goal that has carried me through my years of growing up as a soccer player is to one day make the varsity soccer team at Grandville High School as a freshman.
I have not had a single accomplishment that is worth writing about but I feel that my college completion will be one accomplishment that I will be most proud. I feel that I am taking one step forward in life that will make me become a more successful person.
During my life I had some accomplishments. But, I will tell you the truth I cannot call them as my great accomplishments. At this point of my life I had the two greatest events. My first event was my high school graduation. The second event, which was the biggest and the most unforgettable was my wedding day.
The greatest achievement in my life would have to be my success in the sport of football. I started playing the game at the age of eight. It stuck with me throughout my life until now. During a football game there are numerous amounts of dynamic situations to be involved with. There are so many crucial actions that take place in the matter of seconds. In a certain instance in my life , the game had a strong impact on my life. It took place my senior year against our rivals, the best team in the district. That Monday we began preparing for the coming Friday. It was a typical week until I woke up Wednesday morning. I was routinely late for school running around the house. On my way out the door the phone brought me to an abrupt stop. Turning around, I started to sprint to the phone. A few steps into it, I crushed my little toe on the leg of my couch. Face down on the carpet, I proceeded to scream in pain. Answering the phone quickly got check off my things to do list. As soon as I could regain my sanity I hopped over to the couch and forgot about school. My toe suddenly turned black and swollen. It was the worst coincidence that could’ve happened to me. I went to the hospital later that day, where I heard that my foot was broken and I couldn’t play.