If I were to ask you what people have had the greatest impact on your life, whom would you pick? Some would say that a family member has had the greatest impact on their life, or maybe they would say a trip that they went on. The person who has had the most impact on my life is not only my softball coach, but also someone who has made me push myself to my limits. Christi Weiser has had a huge impact on the type of person I have become. I have played for Coach Weiser for two years now and she as taught me more about life than anyone ever will. The lesson that she had taught me that will stick with me forever is respect. She has taught me that respect is earned and that it doesn’t matter what grade…show more content… If someone was batting and swung at a pitch but missed, she would look them directly into the eye and tell them that they are better than that pitch and to go get the next one. She would tell us that we needed to be self-discipline otherwise we would never learn from our mistakes. Coach Weiser was a very strict person and expected great things from us even at practice. While at practice we always had to wear pants, even when it was so hot outside I thought my body would overheat and shut down. The reason she always made us wear pants was because just in case we had to do sliding drills we were prepared. Wearing pants was probably the worst part of practices because it was so extremely hot outside. When it was nighty degrees out, and sweat was rolling off of our skin like rain on a window, there we were. Some were in sweatpants and some in softball pants. People probably thought that we were ridiculous. Here we were, in the middle of June, wearing sweatpants and running around the field in nighty degree weather with the sun beating down on our backs. She also always made sure that we had our jersey’s tucked in or our shirts. When games rolled around, we looked sharp. We might not of been the best softball team last year, but we at least looked good. It didn’t matter if we were just stretching, if someone had their shirt were not tucked in she would call us out on it and tell us to “Get dressed.” If we decided to wear…show more content… It meant that we have to control the things that we do and that we have to trust each other that they are going to play up to their part on the field. As a pitcher myself, this makes perfect sense to me now. All I have to do is pitch the ball and trust that I will have my team right behind me. Keeping my composure is something that I am not very good at and Coach Weiser helped me to not show my emotions as a pitcher. When pitching in a game, I get really frustrated when I can’t throw strikes and I end up walking multiple players. Weiser helped me control my frustration and would always make me take a huge, deep breath before stepping onto the mound. This would relax me and help me keep my composure so I could throw the next pitch a
