Choosing the person to interview for this assignment was difficult at first, trying to determine which sport and how to contact that person. I first started with the Toledo Mud Hens, but didn’t receive any call backs. I also contacted the Lansing Lugnuts and the West Michigan White Caps and again no call backs. So I looked up minor league baseball teams and the name El Paso Chihuahuas caught my attention. Looking up their front office staff on their website I seen that Angela Olivas is the Director, Marketing and Communications for the team.…
The health career I choose was an athletic trainer. The reason I choose this career is because I play sports and I would love to when i'm older be either playing a sport or teaching people how to play a sport or do something that has to do with a sport and if being an athletic trainer is the right thing for me I would love to be one. The typical responsibilities of a athletic trainer is to, Provide 1st aid and injury assessment/treatment/rehabilitation/reconditioning. The athletic trainer will also be responsible for making appropriate physician referral. Students who want to become certified athletic trainers must earn a degree from an accredited athletic training curriculum.…
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” -Ralph Waldo Emerson(american essayist/lecturer. This quote is what i feel like I have,to be able to be let into this compound. I’ve had many setbacks in life from being fat to getting bullied by kids at my elementary school well I guess those kind of relate to each other.…
The whole cheer squad was very excited and extremely sad and emotional at the same time. The squad was headed to the trampoline park in Wichita. This was the last time we would be team members, not only are we losing our team but we are losing our cheer coach Mrs. Panko. Mrs. Kebra Panko was moving into another chapter of her life, she was moving to a new town, a new school, and most importantly a whole new cheer squad. We are all very excited for her to be the cheer coach but at the same time we were sad, what if she forgot about us, her girls, the ones who helped her become the awesome, cheer coach she was.…
Before I knew what I wanted to do with my life, I was just playing games and eating all the time, but as the years progressed I realized I wanted to be an athletic therapist. I knew that if I wanted to be one I was going to have to start getting in shape and start eating way better than I was before. From the start, I loved it and I have not stopped working towards my goal. My main purpose for becoming an athletic therapist is the ability to help someone who has severely injured themselves and help them recover as fast as possible. I want to be an athletic therapist because I want people who have been hurt to come back better than they were before.…
I started my football career at the age of eight and fell in love with it ever since. I was involved in a flag football program for a couple of years till i wanted to play tackle football. The only problems with me playing tackle football was my parents fear of me getting hurt.…
In the spring of my freshman season as a women’s soccer player in NCAA Division I athletics, I was elected as a co-captain for my team. As a young player in the conference, I was motivated to immediately to take the role to heart. I was responsible for communicating between coaches and teammates, expressing concerns to either party in an effective manner. Additionally, I represented my team both on and off the field. On the field, I started and played as a defending central midfielder in all of our 77 total matches, and organized defensive positional play.…
My sunburn lines between my shorts and socks symbolized the restless, tiring hours spent out on the field. Every Tuesday and Thursday, for two and a half hours, the sun scorched my body while my legs would scrape into the ground. The cluster consisted of the seniors’ looming bodies that would go shoulder to shoulder against my own freshman self as our feet would battle for control. While this exhaustion enthralled and encouraged my game, the sprints, planks, runs, and more caused me to dread going to that grassy field every week. The humidity produced heavy, useless pants from my lungs as my throat would feel as if it was closing in from a claustrophobic nightmare.…
An Athlete’s Worst Nightmare Imagine you are going along playing the sport you love, when all of a sudden you hear a pop, your knee gives out, and you are on the ground in pain. This happened to me not once, but twice. After going to the doctor both times, they figured out I tore my ACL.…
I joined ultimate frisbee in my sophomore year, thinking that I would only stay for a short while. However, it became my passion. It built a family where everyone was caring and welcoming. A tradition of helping one another improve was passed down. I wanted to continue this tradition of welcoming new Sticky Fingers each year and expanding this sport.…
The unique experience I’ve had as a wrestling coach will be the influence of my 2 academic work and goals at Colorado Christian University. Fifteen years’ worth of experience at two schools and in two separate periods of my life. I started coaching wrestling right out of high school and after seven years quit for various reasons. Four years later I returned and have been going strong since. One could argue that my influence comes from a talk I had with my son Adrian when he was eight years old but I found that it was only an eye opener for something bigger.…
Even though I am 17 years old, I don't have your typical teenage life. I finished high school, I’m currently working on my college courses, I have two jobs and family obligations. I am working on my last two courses, however, due to the extensive work of the assignments, I need to dedicate a lot of my time to school. I spend most weekdays on working on my school assignments. I am in a single parent household and since my sister a full-time student and my mom having a full-time job, I try to eliminate their workload by having dinner done before they get home.…
As a student athlete who moved multiple times, I built many relationships with my teachers and coaches. I will always remember the teachers and coaches that had a positive impact on my life, whether it was in second grade or my senior year of high school. When I entered college, I contemplated majoring in Education and going straight into teaching because it was of serious interest to me. However, I chose to go another route with my major. After working for a few years in another field, I decided that it was time to strive for a profession that enthused me.…
The avoidance of planning can ultimately crash a physical education program in a school. As it talks about in Graham, it can become not an enjoyable experience. When lessons are not planned out it can lead to injury and unhappy students. Once you get a mix of that it becomes unhappy parents and unhappy administration, which ultimately, takes away the value of your program. I can relate this to my high school physical education program, where it is the type of program where you roll the ball out and no one is able to progress skill and it becomes quiet chaotic and your participation numbers decrease because students do not value the program.…
It is my philosophy that hard work will always pay off sooner or later. Whether it be physical or mental, the reward is correspondent to the amount of effort put in. In 10th grade, I had back surgery that rendered my back weak. I set the very difficult goal of regaining my strength and working hard the next year in order to make varsity the following year. My ambition moved me to go to physical therapy and give it 110%.…