“Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.” (Robert Baden-Powell). Track season was getting ready to start and I was excited for it because I love to run. This was my first year in high school so this would be my first time to get to be on a high school track team. I went to the first practice, which was conditioning day, and ran as hard as I could. No matter how hard I was hurting or sweating I keep running and finished in the top group every time. Practice comes to an end and coach calls up runners individually and tells us what we are going to be running. He calls me up and I am just knowing that he is going to say the 200 or 400. To my disappointment he tells me I am going to be running the 300 hurdles. I hated the hurdles so to myself I told myself I wasn’t going to practice hard because it wasn’t what I wanted to do. I wouldn’t practice hard so I got put on JV. I won all the JV races in the 300 hurdles so that just pushed me to not want to practice even more because I could win without practice. District track meet rolls around and Trey one of the varsity runners gets hurt so coach moves me to varsity. In my mind I am thinking this is going to be easy I haven’t lost a race on JV so I won’t lose on varsity. The intercom comes on and calls out for my race. It was time to go win.
I get up and stand behind my blocks. The starter yells out, “Runners to your mark!” My adrenaline starts to pump. “Get set!” I am ready for this I tell myself. “Bang!” the sound of the gun goes off. I was so ready for this
Basketball Rule #2 (pg.51) “(Random text from Dad) Hustle dig, grind push, run fast, change pivot, chase pull, aim shoot, work smart, live smarter, play hard, practice harder”, this correlates because at a practice a couple pages later his coach has them do sprints and he says, “The winner doesn’t have to practice today” He is in the lead and he says, “ I let him win and get ready to practice harder”
I was sitting in the old rickety chair that looked as if it had been there for five years. The smell of gunpowder hung in the morning air as I leaned over the rifle rest. My finger wrapped around the trigger as my eye focused through the scope of my grandfather’s Springfield ’03. I took a deep breath and let half out. My finger tightened on the trigger as I awaited the recoil and crack of the gunpowder igniting. Finally, when my finger’s pull was enough to move the trigger, the gun went off. Moments like this are why I love shooting guns.
It then started to get harder and each day was a different workout to help me and my teammates improve. I was at a point where all I could do was attend school, go to practice and go home. Each day I was beyond tired. At a point of time I felt like giving up and going back to my regular life, and regular schedule. As the coach started to notice how I felt, he pulled me to the side and started to question what was going on. I explained, but everything I said was not a good enough reason. My coach told me, “If this is what you really want you won’t give up, no matter how hard it may get you will overcome it.” That day I learned a valuable lesson, to never give up.
A sprinter runs for the finish line, a basketball player dashes toward the hoop, a baseball player sprints for home plate, and a soccer player dashes toward the goal. All of these sports have one thing in common: the players are all running towards a goal. Everyone is running at one point or another in his or her lifetime. Whether someone is running toward a specific dream or away from a horrific nightmare, running is a part of life. Profuse amounts effort must be put in the run to get to the finish line.
As we pull into the racetrack I look around. There are a ton of trailers which means a ton of cars, which also means a ton of people. Aside from all the diversity we all love the same thing, racing. We all unite together, we are all there for the same reason and we all have the same goal. To win the Kyle Larson Outlaw Kart Showcase. One day, two Nascar drivers, three classes, over 225 cars. The biggest outlaw kart race in history to ever be held, and I’m apart of it. I can feel the tension of everyone around me, whispers of people talking about all their set-up ¨secrets¨
When asking most people his or her favorite season that person will say the basic spring, summer, fall, or winter; however, I think of seasons differently. My seasons consist of track season, from the end of February until April; no school season, from May until July; cross country season, from August until November; and soccer season, from November until the middle of February. My life as a high school athlete revolves around school and sports; therefore, my thinking of seasons also revolves around school and sports. There is an attraction to cross country season unlike any other season; consequently, it is my favorite season. Cross country season: the weather, the team, and the euphoria of winning make this the best time of the year.
The moment of truth was upon me. The official times, this includes whom qualified for finals, for the 400m relay had been posted. My eyes scanned the page for the bold letters that spell ANDERSON. As I ran my finger across the page to where the times were posted, my ears began to shut out all outside noises, leaving me alone with the thump of my heart and the inhale and exhale of my lungs. Both began to increase in speed as my eyes narrowed in on the time.
We had been training since December for this meet. Coach Hampton knew our goal was to place, or possibly win the 4x800 meter relay so he made our workouts harder than ever so we could have a chance at accomplishing our goal. Hampton, one of the best coaches in the state, has trained athletes to be state qualifiers in Track and Cross Country every year since 1989. Within his first five years coaching, his cross country team won Back to Back State Championships. And in Track he has coached the State Record holder in the 1600 and 800 meter run. I looked up to Coach Hampton, every time he advised me to change my race strategy or work on my kick I did. But he was never satisfied. He always wanted me to be faster and when I became faster he wanted me to be even
I’m sure you just think track and field is just a sport to stay in shape; this is where you are wrong. Track and field is so much more than that. Track and field is a sport of hard work, dedication, endurance, and showing off your accomplishments. Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing. In the sport, track and field is a sport that is always compared to cross country because of the long distance runs.
I devoted so much time and effort into that sport and to stop playing seriously like this was heart breaking. I listened to all my family and friends about how fast I was and decided to try out track. I knew that I wouldn’t hurt by doing this and I didn’t want to stop playing sports. I always thought how track would be a sport where if you have natural talent, you will be good. I decided to give it a go and after running over a mile in the first practice I was a little reluctant to keep going. I couldn’t keep running all these long distances when I’m not in shape for it. I kept telling myself this so I would just keep pushing through it. My mind was in a million places questioning if I should have just stuck with playing basketball even though I didn’t find it was fun as it used to be. So, after a few months of hard training and practice, I stuck with track. My coach, my family and my friends all persuaded me to do it because they thought I would do good and strive throughout the season. This was a hard change for
Mrs.Stauffer forgot to put me on the line up for the meet so I quickly ran to her and asked her to put me on. She was very stressed, so she shooed me away and told me to talk to Coach Boham. I spent fifteen minutes running around to try to find him . When I finally found him, I asked him to put me in some events. I was a distance runner, I enjoyed long distance and cross country. However, in the beginning of track season I was a scared little freshman, so when all my friends went to sprints so did I. I did not want to be the only freshman in distance how embarrassing! So by my dumb
If anyone has ever ran Track and Field then they will know truly how strange of a sport it is. The whole goal of the sport is to see how fast you can run in a circle, how high you can jump or how far you can throw. Compared to other other sports it’s really simple and looks boring, but its is this simplicity that I think makes it so appealing. The basis of Track is how far you can push the human body with the three basic things it does run, jump, and throw. Track and Field is not a team sport everyone competes in their own events; with this you a divide in the type of people.
I rip out my pistol from my pocket and a woman in front of me. Bang! She drops to the floor. A second shot fired but not from my gun. I look down at my stomach and blood is seeping. A blood curtailing screams comes from the crowd and they
As the season progressed, competition started getting fiercer. I was up against girls running at a 5A level, yet, I was able to hold my own. Finally there came a tiny light at the end of the tunnel; it seemed as though I was getting closer and closer to accomplishing my goal. Along with my undefeated title came a huge target painted on my back. I religiously checked "Rocky Preps" every day to see if the competition was gaining on me. It seemed that every time I had improved, there was someone right behind me, running their personal best too. I trained during the weeks before regionals like I had never trained before. Each day my stomach became more twisted with knots that looped around every part of my stomach. I don't think I had ever been that nervous in my whole life.
Cool Running’s is a 1993 American sports film based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsled teams and their debut in the bobsled competition that took place at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta Canada. This movie puts together quite a few sport psychology qualities such as motivation, determination, leadership, imagery and goal setting. The movie showcases how an underdog Jamaican team who lives in a constant summer can compete in a winter sport due to the fact that they never gave up and used every resource they had available to them including sport physiology. Throughout this summer I will talk about the certain aspects of sport psychology and how the movie sheds light on them. Motivation is seen throughout the entire movie from Derice to coach Irv Blitzer.