Personal Narrative: My Life As A Soccer Player

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.
Ever since I was little, I have dreamed of the day that I would make the varsity soccer team. As a young player, I was involved in volunteering as the ball girl at varsity games and ever since, I have looked up to the varsity girls as my role models. As the ball girl, I spent countless hours at their games admiring and learning from their skills. These skills I have carried with me throughout my years of playing and still use to this day.
Years later, I entered into my first year as a student at Grandville High School. As spring time rolled around, my chance to achieve my childhood goal of making the varsity soccer team was finally a reality.

I was physically and mentally exhausted and all I wanted was for the varsity coach, Lewis, to say “Jayne, you made my team.” Although it felt like a million girls were at the tryout with me, in that moment I was so focused that the only person I could see was Lewis. What felt like hours had gone by, it was finally my turn to hear my fate as I was called over individually to the coaches table. Lewis began to give an overview of my performance during the week of tryouts but the only word that I was focused on hearing was “varsity”. As the words came spilling out of his mouth, I knew my dream had finally come true. I was a varsity soccer