Personal Narrative: My Football Journey

I find myself staring at the clock hour to hour, counting down the minutes each day, until I can walk outside into the fresh air and freedom. While counting down the time; I realize I have missed the past four yours of high school. Its now senior year, prom is near, all sporting events are almost over, and our peers who we have grown up with will soon be out of reach. As we near the end of the school year, I look back on the moments I cherish, the friends that have been by my side, and my future endeavors in life. Throughout the past twelve years, I have endured countless amounts of memories. One of the priceless memories given to me was my football career. Although football was months ago, I still am very heart broke it is over. I will never forget the Friday night feelings under the lights, making a game winning field goal or breaking a school record for the longest field goal. Without the Seaman community rallying behind our team we would have never done as well as we did; turning a losing program around to an eight and three team. As a team we could always count

During my time here I have met some of the most intelligent, friendly, and inspiring people I know within our schools walls; including meeting some of my best friends. For examples Stone Brackett, never have I met someone as intelligent as this man; Katie McLaughlin, she is the sweetest girl I know; Glenn O’Neil, without this gentleman our football team would still be in the bottom of the league. These are just some of the hundreds of different teacher and students who will be missed by myself and many. As we move on I will never forget the impact each and everyone has made on me. Mr. Calderwood, my Seaman Middle School eighth grade history teacher said, “Whether you like it or not, you have impacted my life and I have impacted yours”(Calderwood), which I believe is a perfect example of everyone’s inevitable impact on each