Obstacles In High School

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The struggles I’ve faced during high school were never seen and never expected. Before you come to High School you hear about how you have to stay prepared and get your work done on time. If you don’t do the work you cannot succeed in high school, but you take it like it’s a glass half empty. My struggles have included my confidence in math and just the pressures of wanting to succeed in high school. Also having to deal with track,the constant injuries and now realizing how it’s changed my work ethic. Being comfortable with the student you are is very important in high school and I feel that I’ve let the pressures of high school dictate me. I’ve never been great at math and it’s very hard to explain to people your struggles in certain subjects …show more content…

But I usually relieved this stressed and balanced it out by doing track. Ever since I was young I loved the sport and always new it would be in my future. I remember vacationing with my family in Jamaica during the 2008 olympics, and it just set me on my way to love the sport. I started in middle school and in seventh grade I made states in high jump while our team won the state championship. We were awarded with the high school team and it just made the sport more special to me. Coming into high school I was really excited that we had an indoor track team and wanted to show that I could be great too. From my first days my coach told a group of my friends and I that we could all be special so I took that to heart. I always believed that but quad/hip injuries really tampered with my success. After freshman year I saw all my friends actually become special and do big things, by making varsity relays and even making nationals. I thought my time would come but sophomore year was really a recovery year because I just wasn’t myself. What happened Junior year was the most emotional for me as a runner because I put in a lot of work during the offseason and my coach and I had very high expectations of what was going to happen that indoor season. But I remember like it was yesterday just warming up and my quad just felt like someone stuck a knife in it. I immediately stopped, went to the trainer, and took it light. I told

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