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Positive and negative effects personality can have on sports performance
Positive and negative effects personality can have on sports performance
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While I was in high school, I joined the soccer team. There were 15 girls in a team. There were three girls, whose last name was Lepcha. Who think that they play better soccer then everybody in a team and they do play well but not good as they thought they were. They had started playing soccer for one or two years ago. There were two other girls, whose name was Sabina and Dilu. They were my best friends. My one friend Sabina had played soccer for quite long and she played well but she did not have an attitude as Lepcha did. My second friend was Dilu; she was not that good at soccer. It was her first time playing soccer just like me. I do not know other people who were on a soccer team but the one thing I know about them was that it was their
We made two groups, one group was wearing green T-shirt and another group was wearing blue T-shirt. Each team had eight players. I was in a Lepcha team and our T-shirt color was blue. We started to play soccer, the ball came to my feet but I accidentally passed the ball to the opposite opponent. The Lepcha yelled at me and said if u do not know how to play soccer then why you are here. I know that I do not know how to play soccer well because it was my first time and it was not even a real game. I got so mad and angry but still I stay claim and did not say anything to
It was not first they yell at me, they yelled at me before too but I did not care about it because they always yell at everybody and it was not serious like this one. Before I did not take it seriously because they yell at everybody. Everybody know that how Lepcha was, so other do not care about what Lepcha say about them. After practice, I went home and every time I think about whatever they said, I even get angrier. I decided quietly the game.
In that point, I had lost my self-confidences. While I was trying to learn how to play soccer, they yelled at me and if somebody yells at you while you are trying to get better at something your self-confidences will automatic going to lose. They should have encouraged me to play harder every time or try your best but they did not. Every time I try to participate in other activities, I get afraid because I do not know the same thing to happen
My team and I, who have been playing together for years, were all good friends. That season was when one of the owners of the league i played for went up to my coach (who was also my dad) and asked him if I was interested in joining the league’s club soccer team. I was so excited about doing it, but I also didn't want to do it at the same time. The summer before I played that season my brother had gotten me into liking basketball so I didn’t know what to do either stay in soccer, or start playing basketball. I also didn’t want to leave my team I was playing with because we had been playing together for years . So I end up declining the club offer, and finished the rest of the season with my team. I also ended up choosing to play basketball as my next sport and i still am playing basketball (I am hoping to try out for the GCA basketball team) as of right
I had eaten great all day and I was ready for hell. I got there and didn’t realize there were 100 kid trying out for 2 teams. Mikey and I started off by doing line drills and I wasn’t the best but I was doing what coach had asked everyone to do. I was the only one giving it 110%. Then long field passes were next. Again this was all new to me and I was just going with it. Thirty minutes into practice I felt a bump on my shoulder. It was coach Haven. He asked me, “Hey La Garsssa how long have you been playing lacrosse for? I responded with “oh you know 30mi…. he was shocked and wasn’t ready for the response. I did have great ball handling skills and I was working my ass
It was my first day in school. I was very nervous and shy as I entered my first class. I could see none of them were Asian or Indonesian. They were all Australian instead. Contrary to what I thought, they were all very friendly. They started to talk about my favorite sport, so I told them that I liked football and then asked them whether they played football or not. Later I was asked to play football with them, but I was startled to discover that my football was different from theirs. What I meant by football was soccer and what they meant was Australian football. After one my Australian friend explained the differences between soccer and football, I started to realize that football and soccer are different in tactics, rules and also styles.
I played soccer since I was seven, as of the last few years I played at a very high level. I have represented Ohio South two times at a regional showcase, I have been invited to participate in a camp in Manchester, England and attended the camp twice. Also last Season for the Newark High School soccer team I was named first team all league and third team all central district. Soccer was the first sport I truly loved to do, I wanted to be the best. I work hours upon hours to master whatever part of the game I wanted to improve on. Soccer has taught me to have a great work ethic, and that mentality came when I was cut from the state team the first time I tried out. It was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, I was destroyed, and I thought I was not good but I knew I could do better. The next year I worked, I got bigger, stronger, faster, my soccer I.Q. was higher;therefore, overall I was a much better player. The result of that work, was that I made the team, but not only, I made the starting line up. After that I knew I could accomplish anything I put my mind to.
However, my family was relatively wealthier than rest of my team, so I was the one who always got the scold and jealousy at the same time. This was not a good experience. Until I became a starter, most of my friends and seniors were trying to find my flaw, and they offended me with it. For instance, the location of my soccer team was in the middle of my hometown and there were two options to go back to my home. First one was to ride a bus which costs forty-five cents, and the second one was to get a subway which costs fifty cents. I preferred the second option because the subway station was located right next to my apartment. However, three of my senior came up to me one day and ask what kind of transportation that I take. I confidently answered that I use the subway to go home. However, their response was very shocking. They made me get a punishment just because I am wasting five cents every single day just by using subway instead of riding a bus. Whenever I recall this memory, I feel painful, but at the same time, I start to understand why they reacted in such a rude
It was a summer of 2000 during my first year of my high school, the soccer tryouts had just been announced. I was so excited to hear about tryouts, and I couldn’t wait to start playing for my high school soccer team. I met with the soccer coach of the High School team to discuss my interest to become a part of his team. The coach was very impressed after the meeting, he told me he had never met a person that has so much ambition of playing soccer and he couldn’t wait to see me to be a part of his team. I was fully confident in myself that I would make the team and impress the coach in the first soccer tryouts, after a few days had gone by, the physical check-up form had to be filled by a family doctor, and returned before the tryouts. I rushed
Growing up in El Salvador, soccer was a sport that significantly impacted my childhood. My cousins and uncles taught me how to play soccer, as well as various techniques that would later benefit me on the soccer field. At the age of seven I started to play for one of most well-known soccer clubs in El Salvador. Practicing twenty three hours a week was really paying off, as I could see in my medal and trophy gain. Not only did they represent my accomplishments, but they also gave joy to my teammates, community, and family because they were the people who encouraged me to give my best. Playing soccer was also a way to release stress because when my family was going through hardships, it was easier for me to let all of my negative energy on the
Playing soccer has also brought my family closer together. Both my parents and my sisters would come to all my games and support me. No matter the outcome of the game my family was always there for me. My family has been at my important games and the games that I am not so proud of. Even though they have seen the worst of the sport I still love having them watching me play. They have been the reason I have never given up. And I love making them proud. In the past year, my travel team folded and I thought that I would never have another team to play on. It was very upsetting knowing that I would not be playing with the same girls that I have played with my entire life. Yet, I joined an intramural team and started playing again. I played on a co-ed team for two more years before I graduated high school. On the intramural tea...
I started playing soccer when I was four years old. At the time I had a lot of problems. To name a few, I was bad at working with others, I was a sore loser, and I did not handle pain or disappointment well. When I started to play soccer I had a low self esteem and was terribly shy. Going up and talking to people was not on my list of things to do. This made it pretty hard for me to fit in with all the other kids and make friends. It was hard to enjoy playing soccer when I felt as though I had no friends on the team. My parents noticed my dislike in the sport, but urged me to keep playing anyway.
...kills, I can always count on my second family to support me through it all. Multiple times when I was feeling my soccer skills weren’t up to par and I wasn’t good enough, my coaches consistently encouraged to keep practicing and training myself to become a better player. They didn’t let me quit because they knew I could become better if I gave it my all. The encouragement that I receive from my soccer family is so greatly valued because I know they are choosing, out of love, to support me.
I got frightened because my mom doesn't know what I was doing. I just verbally expressed “nothing, just searching for food” and she caught me doing it. On that day my mom serialized to my dad that when I grow up I be the pharmacist according to what I am doing. As time passed when that time finally came when I have to leave my country and have to come to the entire new country which is the United State Of America. When I was leaving my country, I asked my big brother that “Is the new country that we are going is same as India? Are we able to fit in that country?” At that movement I scare, I put myself down. When my mom saw that me, she suddenly said “don't worry my sister you are a most intelligent girl in the world you can definitely fit into that place” and that statement urges me and gives me full of confidence to shape myself in a whole new country. After I entered the incipient country I face many situations that help me shape in a better way, such as the first day of my school where I entered a school checked my schedule and its says homeroom too goes. I go by my homeroom, but I felt uncomfortable because I was expecting a hall room but it was a small regular room. I go back and ask a teacher “ where is this room located” she gets me to that room instead of laughing at me. That help me
For instance, the Rye High School soccer club suffers from internal teamwork issues that involves diversity interaction disorder and lack of leadership from an interpersonal level. With the new addition of a foreign player from Colombia, a new batch of freshman players at the varsity level, and the hiring of a female coach on a men’s team there is conflict present that is dividing the team and its leaders from working towards their goals of winning games and learning how to work with one another. These types of problem within a sports team are prevalent around the world. A language barrier and integrating different cultures in this situation has created a negative tension that is dividing the team. Numerous players and coaches on the team are unfamiliar with how to deal with working as a team with a new member that has come from different upbringings and tradition of how to work on athletic team such as soccer. The practices are different. Communication has been minimalized creating a disruption of teamwork in a sport where talki...
On the field we all make mistakes, but it’s the way you work to correct those mistakes and your attitude toward the game and other players once the mistake has taken place. When you react in a positive or negative way this will show a person's true character. Ever since I was three I have been playing soccer, people have always questioned my ability to become a talented soccer player. After the doubt from so many people the feeling I get when I look up and see the shock on their face feels better than anything in this world. No matter what type of mood I am in, once I step on that field for a game or even just for practice my mood automatically changes to a feeling of joy and excitement.
The other two coaches arrived before the session and the three of us talked through what was going to happen before, during and after the match. This meant that once the players arrived and had been taken for their warm up I took their first main drill of duo’s and because the session was planned before the players arrived the transition between the warm up and the first drill was very fluid and this is a direct result of planning and preparation by the coach. Although the session was planned it was not seamless as the behaviour of a couple of the players was not acceptable and did not meet the context anticipated, to adapt to this situation I conducted myself in an appropriate manner. This links to social learning theory as children tend to replicate the behaviours of significant others (Jarvis, 2005), therefore by behaving in an appropriate manner the coach can act as a role model for the children which should have a beneficial effect on the players behaviour. I started to see an effect on one of the players in my next session a few weeks later, however one player was still misbehaving so one of the coaches made the player go in goal during a shooting drill, as the player did not want to be there he made an effort to behave.
I 've played soccer my whole life since I was three and have loved it every single year. I played on a non-comp team for the longest time which was a bad idea coming into high school ball. When I got to high school soccer everything changed. Soccer was so much different. I remember my first game first play i had the ball I got hit and i looked at my dad and he kinda shrugged. It took alot to learn how to play at this new level. I worked hard through freshman, sophomore, and junior year. Then came senior year. The season came around and my coach, coach fletcher, had big expectations for me. I suffered through soccer conditioning and lost a few pounds from it. But i 'm getting ahead of myself. the spring season before school ball was my biggest nightmare. I started out the season good. had a goal. But then it happened, I broke my collarbone, again. This time was my worst time yet. I was put as foward to let our forwards have a break. I don 't usually play here. I started out the half with a few opportunities but then the perfect ball was sent over by my defender. He sent the ball over and I took off. I ran as fast as lightning after that ball. I brought my foot back to take a shot and BAM!! I got hit with a shoulder from behind. I fell and felt a snap. I broke my collar bone for the 4th time. So I had to miss out on the rest of the season that spring. I came back for school ball and