Playing Football For St. Joe
“Come on, Josh Arnold!” is all I heard when I was running through the bears toughness test-an endurance test for JV and Varsity football player that determines our strength, endurance and will to never give up. through seemingly impossible activities. When I saw what I had to do, two laps around the tack pulling someone and then carrying someone.I doubted myself, thinking I wouldn’t be able to do it, or I thought that I would quit halfway through out the test. How could I know that I was ready for this?
I used to believe that football was hard and that I could never do what the sport asked for or for what it took to get a spot on the team, but now I believe in persistence.
It started when I was walking into the gym at 7:30 in the morning, everyone was standing around talking to each other after being gone over summer break. I was looking around waiting to see someone I knew when Coach Church and all the other coaches entered the …show more content…
I thought of beating lake shore and blocking all my blocks and having the whole team yell common Josh Arnold from the sidelines. That was one thing I thought about when I was going through camp week and practice everyday. When I would feel tired in football I would think about my team cheering me on during camp and I would think about all the games we would win. Everyday during practice I would always try and think of the positive things about football, and what it will give me in life. One day I was extremely tired from all my test and we had a game, vs. Grand Rapids, that day and I had slept the entire way there which was only an hour drive but it was long enough for almost half of the team to fall asleep on the way to the game. I woke up when we were about 5 minutes away and we were driving through the hood of grand
“Come on, Josh Arnold!” is all I heard when I was running through the bears toughness test-an endurance test for JV and Varsity football player that determines our strength, endurance and will to never give up. through seemingly impossible activities. When I saw what I had to do, two laps around the tack pulling someone and then carrying someone.I doubted myself, thinking I wouldn’t be able to do it, or I thought that I would quit halfway through out the test. How could I know that I was ready for this?
I used to believe that football was hard and that I could never do what the sport asked for or for what it took to get a spot on the team, but now I believe in persistence.
It started when I was walking into the gym at 7:30 in the morning, everyone was standing around talking to each other after being gone over summer break. I was looking around waiting to see someone I knew when Coach Church and all the other coaches entered the …show more content…
I thought of beating lake shore and blocking all my blocks and having the whole team yell common Josh Arnold from the sidelines. That was one thing I thought about when I was going through camp week and practice everyday. When I would feel tired in football I would think about my team cheering me on during camp and I would think about all the games we would win. Everyday during practice I would always try and think of the positive things about football, and what it will give me in life. One day I was extremely tired from all my test and we had a game, vs. Grand Rapids, that day and I had slept the entire way there which was only an hour drive but it was long enough for almost half of the team to fall asleep on the way to the game. I woke up when we were about 5 minutes away and we were driving through the hood of grand