About four years ago I was playing club lacrosse for the Villanova Wildcats travel team. I was about thirteen years old when I experienced one of my first significant lessons of failure. At a young age many do not understand the importance of failures and short comings, and how it is essential to learn, grow, and improve. We think success comes easy and without trial which is not realistic. My life changing failure taught me many things: the strength of teamwork, the power of preparation and will, and how to be a better competitor. Without facing my short-coming I would not be where I am today as I am today. Mid-July, summer of 2011, my teammates and I were playing in a qualifier game to get into the annual Tri-State open championships. We were defending champs and wanted the repeat, which was the goal for the summer. We were on a hot streak after losing the opening game of the summer; we were 27-1 sitting as the #2 seed in the Tri-State qualifier tourney. Although we were pretty good,
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We were suited up for the 1st game of the day. To we had to win 3 games, those three games would have taken us to the semi-finals. We went on to win the first two games by a long shot. With a day’s, were suiting up for the semifinals against the #3 or #4 seed. It was a really close game throughout the 1st quarter, and then the other team went on a 7-0 run. This left us behind at 11-4 at the half. I was having a horrible game; in fact I was probably playing the worse game of my life. I along with others hung our head’s coming out of the half and ended up losing 15-10. Not only did our slacking, carelessness, and haughtiness caught up to us, but we didn’t get a bid to tri-states. Following the loss coach called a team meeting. He made it aware that even after a horrible loss we would have a shot at another bid. I knew along with my teammates that if we wanted to achieve our goal we would have to turn it
We were suited up for the 1st game of the day. To we had to win 3 games, those three games would have taken us to the semi-finals. We went on to win the first two games by a long shot. With a day’s, were suiting up for the semifinals against the #3 or #4 seed. It was a really close game throughout the 1st quarter, and then the other team went on a 7-0 run. This left us behind at 11-4 at the half. I was having a horrible game; in fact I was probably playing the worse game of my life. I along with others hung our head’s coming out of the half and ended up losing 15-10. Not only did our slacking, carelessness, and haughtiness caught up to us, but we didn’t get a bid to tri-states. Following the loss coach called a team meeting. He made it aware that even after a horrible loss we would have a shot at another bid. I knew along with my teammates that if we wanted to achieve our goal we would have to turn it