Personal Essay: My Most Successful Player

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Many people are born wishing one day they would earn a trophy or medal for doing something they enjoy doing the most. While some people show off their medals and or trophy, others keep it a secret. They never tell anyone about it, and it is hard for everyone else to figure it out. I am not that type of person, because every time I do something not everyone can do, I like to people so they can know all about my accomplishment. In this particular situation, I won a trophy for being the most valuable player and for scoring the last runs to get the win, which I also told many people about whenever I had the chance.
To start off, this all started when I was in elementary school, in my town they always had after school activities. In these after school activities, children were able to play any sport of their interest, and if they did not like playing sports, then they would paint or do art and craft. In my case, it turned out to be softball, I was not a very good player because I was a beginner, but I soon started to learn how to play. Softball is basically the same thing as baseball, except baseball is for men and softball for woman. In softball, there are shorter inning, and field, but everything else is the same. Since I was a quick learner, I became a really good player really soon.
A couple of years later, I entered
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Game after game, we kept winning; my team and I only lost two games out of seventeen. Our record maintained the same for the four years in high school, with the exception; that we were becoming better player each and every time we played and practiced. Furthermore, as a senior in high school, I was constantly getting interviewed and came out on the news a couple of times. Many colleges started to send me scholarship so that I can play for their school. My parents were very happy and could not be more grateful for having a daughter like

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