...down, my team was marching down the field with a purpose. Across the gridiron was our rival team, Mayfield, who we had beat the previous year in the state championship game. It was a cold November night and the stage was set, playing on their home field, “The Field of Dreams,” in Las Cruses, New Mexico in the semi-finals of the state tournament. Up 14-0, we had the ball and were trying to score before going into halftime. I was handed the ball for a running play and then it happened. Falling to the ground as if I had been shot, I had completely torn my hamstring. I was in complete shock as I lay on the ground. As the pain set in, a million thoughts were running through my head. It was my senior year, my last hurrah, and possibly the last time I would ever play football. It was at this moment that I realized I had no idea about my future and where I was going with my life. Sitting on the sidelines while I watched my team lose was one of the hardest experiences I have ever had to endure. I was helpless, and utterly disappointed that this is how my football career would end. The simplest of questions lack the simplest of answers as I asked myself, “Now what?” Up until this point in my life, it had all been so simple, go to school and play football. It was this simplicity that seemed to have hypnotized me into thinking life would continue on like this forever. But, in an instant everything changed and I realized I had no idea what I was going to do. I was as helpless in my life as I...
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...More than Just a Game People often consider football as just a game or sport, but to others it’s not just a game or sport. Football has changed my life in many different ways. For the first time in my life, I was able to understand the concepts of life when joined the Independence High Football Team. It showed how I use to be an outsider to actually feeling part of something. I now have a totally different outlook on life. When I enrolled into Independence High School I would considered myself as an outsider or a trouble maker. I was always getting into trouble every time I look up. The teachers at school couldn’t understand why I caused so much trouble. It wasn’t like I use to associate with a lot of people, so they knew it wasn’t just to impress friends or be a class clown. I made the honor roll every six weeks, so they knew I was an intelligent young man, but for some strange reason I was always getting into trouble. The last incident that I got into was a fight in the bathroom. The principal’s secretary didn’t know what else to do with me so they wanted to kick me out of school. When they walked back into the office they told me that a woman name Mrs. Stewart vouched for me and insisted that we keep you in school as long as you remain out of trouble and maintained a 2.0 G.P.A. My first thought was why would my English teacher Mrs. Stewart vouch for me if all I did was cause trouble in her class? When I went to her class the next day I asked her, “Why did you vouch for me...
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...My high school career was nothing like Troy Bolton’s in High School Musical. There was no random singing, and I never danced and sang on a golf course. This does not mean I did not enjoy high school. Of course there were ups and downs, but life has its fair share of ups and downs. I hope I am able to remember how high school was for me in my future. Because my memory of high school is already not as good as I wish it was. My experiences before high school, were the reasons for how I was in high school. I was raised to always do my best at whatever I was doing, no matter what I was doing. In elementary school I was the shy kid and stayed to myself. But this was because I changed elementary schools a handful of times. After I become familiar with my place at my new schools I become friendly with the ones that I was around. What set me up for success was that I started playing football on a Pop Warner team. In middle school I was apart of sports and clubs. I was also recognized as the Cheney Federal Credit Union student of the year my eighth grade year at WMS....
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...of gloom and melancholy rushed through my head, I had not thought about this impactful moment in my young life for some time now. The story starts in the summer after eighth grade, as I was beginning summer workouts for high school football. My high school, Piedmont High School, had just hired a brand-new football coach. His name was Ron Massey and the impact he would have on my life is unparalleled. Freshman year Ron Massey redefined the game of football for me and my entire team. He taught us what it really means to be dedicated to something that is important to you. He personally brought the absolute best out of me every time he stepped on the field with me. Ron Massey helped me grow not only as a player but as a person in so many ways. He taught me several life lessons such as loyalty, respect, and integrity. Ron Massey impacted a...
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...when I was young, I find that many of my influences come from my closest family members. I was starting pre-school when I first started listening to how people around me were talking. I would listen to my mother and father talk on the phone or to each other and found myself starting to adopt their special language. My sister is six years older than me. Naturally children will look up to their older siblings. I, like many others, would copy exactly what my sister would do. She would say “crap” or “gosh” and sure enough I was running around using the word in complete wrong context. My mother and father were somewhat strict with how my two siblings and I talked. When I was running around yelling words that we weren’t supposed to say, it was almost a routine for me to get in trouble and eventually end up tattling on my sister. My original language came from my family, yet unlike others many slang words were absence from it. I find that many of my most strict proper...
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...How Football Changed Me “Boom, pow, crack”. These are the sounds made every weekday in August to October, whether it is 85 and sunny or 65 and raining on the football practice field. Players hit each other, while practicing our offensive plays until perfection and running sprints for what feels like hours on end. Best of all are the smells of hard work the rest of the team have put in, measured by the raunchy body odors they left behind. All of this hard work is done for the sweet taste victory every Friday night. Although there is so much more to football than wins and losses, or touchdowns and tackles. Football changes lives in so many amazing ways, something it has personally done to me. My love for football began at an extremely young...
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...sports and how sports can affect your character. He uses his life as a prime example. In his article Edmondson explains how sports helped build his character but also damage it. First he reminisces about his highschool years as a football player. Second...
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...adrenaline rushing through your veins, this is football. Recently there has been a lot of research done on football related injuries. According to 'How Dangerous is high school football' football players sustained more than half a million injuries nationally. Four in every thousand high school football exposures resulted in an injury. The greatest at risk for injury is running backs and linebackers. Football is a very dangerous due to the amount of contact, the outdated gear, and the possibility of developing C.T.E. Head to head, helmet to helmet death coming at you full force speed.Let's tackle the contact in the next paragraph. Football is a contact sport, but can it really kill you? Yes, but...
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...Eric Legrand, author and main character of “Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life” moves readers with his inspirational thoughts in this book. He goes through each of the events in his life while giving a positive insight about it. In his autobiography, Eric Legrand speaks about how he stayed strong after enduring a severe life threatening football injury by the support he had from family and friends while other people with similar problems and disabilities did not have the support he did. His experience really encourages the readers to change their outlook on life and how they shouldn’t take things for granted. This is truly an inspirational story for people all around the world. Eric Legrand had his entire life dedicated to sports, but most importantly football....
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...Final Exam 1. There have been many different events in sports that have occurred during my lifetime that more than likely have changed my life, but I don’t want to tell you about things that other people may have done that may have caused that change. Instead, I want to tell you about my one of my top two all-time events that I personally participated in that changed my life. When I was in high school, I played football at Florence High school and I was the starting quarterback my junior and senior year. My senior year we had clinched second place in our region and we were going to host the first ever home playoff game at Florence High School, but before we could do that, we had our last regular season game against the undefeated and number one ranked in team 5A Russellville Golden Tigers. They also had the number two ranked fullback in the nation on their team. Now, we were 5-4 at the time and were looking to also be the first football team at Florence High School to have a winning record. I can remember that whole week of school hearing from students, teachers and even my own parents how we were more than likely going to get blasted out of our own stadium. It really pissed me off especially coming from the people that I thought would back us up and be on our side. When Friday finally came I read the newspaper and seen that we were picked to lose and, I can’t remember the score they predicted but I know it was at least by three touchdowns. I found it quite funny but I didn’t...
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...Through an Interview In today’s day and age, it’s very unusual for the youth and elderly to have much in common, a major of the time. Over the years, what once was the way of living has changed overnight. Many individuals would agree with both statements I just stated. But, after my interview with Samuel; I quickly changed my point-of-view, the youth and elder have more in common then what we think. Interviewing seventy-five year old Samuel D. Wright is an experience that I will never regret undergoing. Speaking to Samuel made me realize the world we live is slowly but, gradually changing but, people remain the same in many different aspects like: personality traits, simple behavior patterns and personal values. I felt as if a little piece of history was given to me through my interview with Samuel. Learning about that little portion of local history changed my prospective on Naples as a whole. After spending hours trying to pick a relative to interview, I decided that interviewing someone that I already knew would have an effect on the actual answers I would receive. I wanted to interview someone that would be one hundred percent truthful no matter what the question maybe. Not that any of my potential questions for Wright were extremely personal or anything in that nature. The only way to make my goal possible was to interview someone I didn’t really know. Working in a hospital gives me plenty of opportunities to meet thousands of people over the age of fifty. I watched them come...
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...perfect.” All my life this has stuck in my head. Why regret something when you will never have the chance to change the past? Since I was big enough to pick up a ball, I fell in love with football. My household since I was only a toddler has revolved around me playing any sport that ends in -ball. This summer I made a decision that would take football away from my life. Since I was only a small child, I can recall always having a toy ball in my hands. Growing up I was involved in every little league sport my parents would put me in. There was just something about the fresh cut grass in football...
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...#4 High School Experience The teenage years are some of the most important stages in everyone’s life because that’s when we all start a new chapter in our lives, which is difficult and very interesting at the same time. The teen years are exciting because that’s when we begin to somehow take control of our lives by making our own decisions and making our own choices about what we’d like to do or how we want things to be according to where we are, and where we want to go in the future. When we enter the teenage years and we start going to high school, we feel more independent and want to do things our way, like changing the way we dress, act, hang out with friends, and the way we communicate with our family. I remember my teen years in high school, and how much fun I had, the things I learned, and how much I changed. I went to Hayward High, high school in Hayward California, a nice school in the Hayward hills (APP). I am proud to say that I loved being going to this high school because it has great teachers and helpful staff. My high school experience was, and forever will be a very exiting and magnificent stage in my life that I will never forget. One great thing that happened to me was being able to meet my best friend, Refugio. When I started going to high school, I didn’t know anyone because I went to a different high school from the rest of my middle school friends, so I was totally alone on the first day at the new school. I remember when I went to my classroom...
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...still not arrived. Was it the best audition of my life? The thought of not getting into the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for my Junior year of high school seemed like an inconceivable possibility. My dance instructor, a retired ballerina, had attended this prestigious school before joining the Boston Ballet company and I aspired to do something similar. Over the past year I had sacrificed my social life to train for the opportunity to be accepted into the competitive pre-professional program the school offered. When I saw the pallid envelope in the mailbox, I immediately knew my fate. If accepted, I would have expected to receive a fat packet full of housing and registration information. My...
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...characters stay the same. In middle school I was immature, in my transformation I became mature. Most people change from middle school to high school. You change by realizing things, maturing or just growing up. Well not for me, something happened that helped me transform into the person I am today. To begin with, if you knew my personality in middle school, it is nothing, as I am perceived today. I was immature and constantly got in trouble. I didn’t care what the teacher had to say and I would make it difficult for other students to learn. Lets just say I was more of a nuisance then a pleasure to have in class. I was always a bright student, some how managed to only get one B and the rest A’s through middle school. Considering I was rarely in class due to my comportment during class. The biggest immaturity part of middle school was how I got in trouble. It wasn’t as if I was selling drugs or anything terrible! I would get in trouble for doing immature actions as going to the bathroom for twenty minutes, not being in my seat and most importantly talking! Speaking out in class was the biggest issues for me as I was in middle school. See you might ask how did you get twenty-three referrals during eighth grade when you weren’t there for two months due to surgery. After every day seeing the most irritating kid you’ve ever come across you might realize how I got referrals for things other might not received. At the time couldn’t comprehend how I would get in trouble for things others...
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