Reflective Essay On Football Performance

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It was just three weeks before our first game of the season against the Willow Springs Tigers. I was in the car with my father listening to the Pat Daily radio show like we always did on the way to football practice. Pat Daily was a high school sports analyst, he just so happened to be talking about the Reeds Spring Wolves’ season and who the fans could lookout for. One line in his show happened to be about me. Pat said, “We will have a sophomore this season at 6 feet, 245 pounds, Tristan Beyer, who is going to be one of the players battling for a starting spot on the offensive line”. I was not going to think anything of it. It was my sophomore year of high school, I thought the whole world was ahead of me and I thought without a doubt I was going to start. I figured it was going to be my position to lose. I was doing so well in football and I knew it was going to be my year to start at center. But then out of …show more content…

He asked “Why, son?” I said “I don’t know if I want to play anymore.” and I told him all that had happened at practice. All he said to me was these few words, “For those who are persistent and do their best and work hard, good things will happen because good things happen to those who wait”. Being the young high school kid that I was, I took it for what it was. As the season went by, I played jayvee and made the best of it. I kept working out and getting bigger, faster, and stronger. Before I knew it I was at 6 feet and 2 inches, 265 pounds, and was going into the summer of my junior year. It was my year to prove myself and remember what my dad had told me several months before, “For those who are persistent and do their best and work hard, good things will happen because good things happen to those who wait”. Finally, my time had come; I was the starting varsity center and had my own article in the paper that read “Beyer’s Time to

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