blah blah … To be an athletic trainer for a team in the Olympic games is my ultimate, long term goal. Athletic training has been a part of my life for several years now but on the opposite side as an athlete. In high school I was a part of a dance company and on the high school dance team, dancing around forty plus hours a week which resulted in several injuries, because of these injuries I was able to get my first glimpse into the athletic training world. Now in college, I am working with the University of Oklahoma’s Athletic Department and more specifically the softball team. This is an amazing opportunity I am able to partake in to fully immerse myself in the athletic training world and to understand the aspects and requirements of an athletic
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Being an athletic trainer and especially working with a collegiate team will take up a majority of my life and can be overwhelming at times but having friends and family to support you will be beneficial. Being able to time manage and have a life outside of the job will be important to my mental health and not letting my work consume me. I am also wanting to complete these goals at a young age so that after experiencing the Olympic games I could settle down and start a family. Hopefully I will marry someone who understands these goals and doesn’t want kids right after marriage. Then after starting a family being able to balance my family and the team could be a difficult journey because of the time commitment with practice, games, meets, tournaments, and traveling battling wanting to raise my children and not miss them growing up. Another huge obstacle could be that I am not chosen to work with a USA team in the 2024 Olympic games. If I am not chosen for that year’s games I will still continue to strive and work to better qualify myself for the following years games. I would spend the years in-between enhancing and sharpening my skills and improving on my weaknesses. Even though my ultimate dream seems so far in the future this assignment has made me realize that my dream of working with an Olympic team could happen within the next five years. Writing out the steps and milestones that I will need to surpass keeps me motivated to stay on track and also to focus on the smaller short term goal in the moment and see the progress towards my ultimate
Being an athletic trainer and especially working with a collegiate team will take up a majority of my life and can be overwhelming at times but having friends and family to support you will be beneficial. Being able to time manage and have a life outside of the job will be important to my mental health and not letting my work consume me. I am also wanting to complete these goals at a young age so that after experiencing the Olympic games I could settle down and start a family. Hopefully I will marry someone who understands these goals and doesn’t want kids right after marriage. Then after starting a family being able to balance my family and the team could be a difficult journey because of the time commitment with practice, games, meets, tournaments, and traveling battling wanting to raise my children and not miss them growing up. Another huge obstacle could be that I am not chosen to work with a USA team in the 2024 Olympic games. If I am not chosen for that year’s games I will still continue to strive and work to better qualify myself for the following years games. I would spend the years in-between enhancing and sharpening my skills and improving on my weaknesses. Even though my ultimate dream seems so far in the future this assignment has made me realize that my dream of working with an Olympic team could happen within the next five years. Writing out the steps and milestones that I will need to surpass keeps me motivated to stay on track and also to focus on the smaller short term goal in the moment and see the progress towards my ultimate