At the beginning of my junior year of McNeil High School I qualified to be on varsity and was put into the varsity soccer class for one month. I trained with the returning varsity players and learned from our varsity coach. However, at the term of that month I had received a statement that I did not have the capability to become a varsity player and would be moved down to junior varsity. This remains as one of the toughest setbacks that I have faced in my life. Due to this failure, I joined a competition in the club Health Occupations Students of America called Healthy Lifestyles. Healthy Lifestyles required the individual to set a goal for themselves based on the advancement of the individual, - 6 months, 8 months, or 10 months- and in their
