Personal Essay: High School Soccer

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My first page of this writing essay I going to be about my soccer career from Middle school to senior year. 6th grade was the year I went back from playing soccer. At the time I was playing baseball but all my friends told me to stop playing baseball and to play soccer with them instead. So I did, and I played center back which is a defender I soccer and pretty much my job was to keep any of the opposing side from scoring a goal. Which was difficult because at the time I was week and small that all the tall and muscular forwards that I would be playing against would simply beat me because they had an advantage in terms of physical attributes. I think that year, 6th grade year we ended up 5th in the table which
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During the playoffs me managed to win two games making it to the semi finals but losing in the semi finals to Sunset which was a team in Longmont and we were from Frederick. After the playoff lose, our coach made a celebration for us for making it to the playoffs and achieving our goal which was making it to the playoffs. Now I’m going to be talking about High school soccer because I pretty much just went over Middle school soccer. Freshman year was really hard. I didn’t make the varsity team, I was probably one of the suckiest player out of the whole team, and the division My high School was in was division five. My High School coach, coach Oliver was a whole lot more strict and more serious when it came to practices. Every practice the whole team JV and Varsity would run one mile before practice started to get the heart pumping and after the mile I would be one of the last people to finish because I wasn’t used to running a lot and I was also out of shape because I did absolutely during the summer and I kind of got a little chubby. After the mile JV and Varsity would split up and go practice with their groups because Varsity was not going to practice with a bunch of inexperienced players who couldnt keep up with their level so JV played with JV and Varsity played with

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