My story is about how I was scared to play varsity football for my school, Phoebus High School. Eventually, I overcame my fear in a way that I would've never thought that I would. Also, I would find out that I wasn't really scared I was just overthinking everything.
Or to go back: In 9th grade, I was nervous coming into high school because of what my cousins would tell me before the school year started. I weighed 110 and 5’6 tall, very small compared to the other students in my class. I had just recently quit football 2 years prior to me starting high school. Even though I wanted to play, every player that played seemed like giants to me. I kept procrastinating on when I was going to join the team, but year after year I slowly got taller and
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However, I still was nervous and very hesitant when I went to my first varsity high school football practice. All the coaches looked at me as if I were an outsider. I had already been looked at as a player that wasn't gonna make it. I watched how the upperclassmen would act like they had more power or could disrespect the coaches. The players wouldn't give as much effort as me and because I had not made the team yet I had to work ten time harder. I prayed before every practice that I’d get better to prove to myself and to everybody who doubted me and said I couldn't make the team. When tryouts came, I played outstanding and had earned myself a spot on the team and had gained respect from the coaches and players due to my determination. As my senior year came to pass, I had many regrets but one that still haunts me the most was allowing fear to hold me back from the sport that I love the most. I try not to dwell on the past because I know better is to come. High school taught me to not let fear hold me back from success and greatness. I know that because I eventually had been awarded a starting position for my effort and great improvement in my
I had been told that it was much harder and the players were bigger faster and stronger, so I thought that I was not going to be the Tom’s next favorite target and that I got lucky in youth football by playing against a bunch of unskilled players. However I soon found out the middle school football was just as like youth football I would receive a short screen pass and then mostly because I was afraid to be tackled I would take off and score. With Jared throwing me the ball from either the line of scrimmage or forty yards down field we were unstoppable. We suffered one loss in our middle school career and went undefeated our 8th grade year. Yet again I was sure to be Tom’s next go to
First I would be only be accepted as a member of the baseball team if could prove my worth on the practice field and demonstrate my skills as a fielder and hitter. The first opportunity to prove that came at tryouts. Tryouts are the time to showcase everything you’ve got, from making the simple plays to laying out and making a diving catch in the outfield. When it was my turn to make that play I felt all eyes on me, silently judging me. Everyone was doing it, the coaches to determine rank among the hopeful newcomers and among the veterans, the veterans watching me, trying to see if I was a threat to their starting role, and even the other players trying out, hoping I would fail so I wouldn’t
The day I had been practicing so much for was finally here. I didn't know what to think, I was more prepared than other people but still didn't think I would make the line. As I walked into tryouts the first day, I was confident , but at the same time, I knew I was nervous inside. I was one of the 3 freshman trying out. There were other people there who were on drumline the previous years. They looked like nothing was wrong to them and this tryout was pretty much a casual rehersal for them. All though , all thing all of them thought that we freshmen were terrible. We started
These events have helped me grow as a person because it has helped me see that if you quit something as easy as sports then you can or will quit something that is more important like a job, school, or anything else that is more important than sports. My belief shows me that if you stick with sports even when you don’t like the coach, teammates, your position, or you can’t adjust to a new coach, then you can stick with a job, or school, even if you don’t like a the professor, your boss, or what you are doing. This I
Each game, my passion grew. Each team, new memories and lifelong friends were made. Sports sometimes make me feel disappointment and at loss; but it taught me to be resilient to a lot of things, like how to thrive under pressure and come out on top. Being the team captain of my high school’s football and lacrosse team showed me how having a big responsibility to bring a group together to work as one is compared to many situations in life. Currently playing varsity football, varsity lacrosse, and track I take great pride in the activities I do. Staying on top of my academics, being duel enrolled at Indian River State College, working three nights a week, and two different sport practices after school each day shaped my character to having a hard work
It was the most competitive three days of my life, basketball tryouts. This is the first time my friends and I were trying out for a school team, we were all hyped for basketball season. I entered the tryout excited and consequently energetic. Adrenaline was pulsing through all the players bodies, there were 6 foot tall 8th graders with years of experience competing against 6th graders who have never touched a basketball before for the same spots. I was in between, I was a 6th grader that had experience along with some skill. That was also my downfall, I went in overconfident and consequently cocky. I wasn’t planning on getting cut, I walked into the tryout overwrought, nothing could stop me from being on the team.
Sadly, my family was going through financial struggles, forcing me out of the school zone I was destined to attend. When I discussed the situation wih the high school coaches they told me they would pick me up from my new house and take me to school every day; with the condition that I’d play football for them all throughout high school. Even though this was illegal I continued to go ahead and accept the offer. My first year of high school was so exciting that it went by in the blink of an eye. Sophomore year came and the clock ticked closer and closer to when everything would change. I started in varsity as a corner back but soon would have big shoes to fill as the team’s quarterback. Not only did this require skill and hard work but the ability and qualities of a leader as well. Ultimately, playing this position helped me acquire traits that would soon be necessary for success. That year was tough for us because the majority of the team consisted of inexperienced players, however the coaches knew I would be the one to lead the
During the past summer I went to a camp on Oahu called, G.P.A. 2016 Football Showcase. It was a first time at the position I chose, cornerback. The showcase was three days long, as the weekend went on I began shining in a certain coach's eye. He then put me inside the Top 12 of the camp in that position. I already had my goals for football and those goals were starters; to get my name in the newspaper, make my senior year memorable, and
It was 5 years ago, my eighth-grade year, I was scared and nervous about being the youngest girl on the high school basketball team. I had played basketball since I was in first grade and played on competitive teams with older girls but nothing had prepared me for what I was walking into. We started our first day of practice at 6:30 a.m. on a chilly October morning. Coach Gray sat us down before practice and went over all the many rules he had set for our team. After hearing all these rules and consequences I did not even want to breathe wrong around him. I was so scared, but little did I know that this was the start of something that would change my life for forever.
My sophomore year was my first year as an athlete and it was probably one of the best decisions of my life. I never would have been the person and athlete that I am today. I started playing football in the fall and we made it to the state playoffs, but we lost in the first round(wasn’t varsity level so I did not contribute). I was not as ready to be a student-athlete then, but when track season came
Culture & Vision Create an individual vision of why you want to be a member of this program. What kind of teammate do you want to be? I always strive to be the best teammate I could possibly be. I never want to cause or be involved in any drama whatsoever, and if anything like that ever starts I want to handle the situation as a mature adult.
I hit the sidelines and kids on the other team were closing in, as I pounded down the sidelines I look to the side and I see a short kid on the other team about 10 feet from my position. He hits me hard… Then I wake up, in my classroom, everyone staring at me. My teacher was towering over me. My teacher Mrs. Jones breaks the silence and I felt a lecture on my hands.
When I was in 7th grade I started playing volleyball. It was the first day of tryouts at my school; I had never played volleyball. I was so nervous that I could not stop shaking. I hoped that I could make it through this week of tryouts. At the end of the week, the results were posted, and I found out that I did not make the team.
As I was going into tryouts for sophomore year, I was pretty confident I was going to do good. As I went through the week at tryouts I think I did pretty good. Soon it came to the last day. I found out that I didn’t make the team. I was heartbroken. I learned some good lessons that day. I learned that God always has a reason for something to happen, and this wasn’t his plan for me. I also learned grace, not to take my anger out on my friends who made the team. I had to be happy for them most of my best friends play
the NFL was a tough place to play it was stressful playing in the NFL . In the first 3 seasons I ended up breaking my arm . So I had to wait until next season to play . After I came back my couch made me work hard to improve my arm . Then one day I heard that we got a new QB .I was surprised to find out that it was John .Us together we made the team better than ever we were on that team for a long time . but we ended up getting a new team . These days i’m a retired football