Personal Narrative: Colorado Rapids Youth Soccer Team

Rapids Team

During the summer leading to my sophomore year, I tried out to be on the colorado rapids youth soccer team. At first, I didn't know whether I was going to make it or not but I tried my hardest. I remember the day perfectly. Me and 3 other friends their names are Abel, Wyatt, and Kendrick. We were all lucky and got onto the same team with our couch ben. The first try outs were hard only a few people made it to the team. When I tried out I was going to play as the goalie and I did for the longest time until Kendrick had the ball and kick it while it was in the air. At this point, I was directly in front of him, I didn't have enough time to block the ball with my hands and it went directly to my face. Once that happened I blacked out for a minute didn't realize what happened until I came to and I felt like I was on one knee. Abel came up to me and asked if I was ok and I calmly look at him and said “yea …show more content…
For a month me and miss johnson (my friend Wyatt's mom and teacher) were struggling to find out what was going on I had to contact the director of the club to see if he could straighten things out and thankfully he did. I had finally set everything straight and was waiting for the season to start. On the first day of practice, it was so hard that all of the team members were dying from exhaustion. We trained as hard as we could and I was the biggest guy in our team and I had the most weight. That weight dragged me down a lot every day but as I struggled to get my physical fitness to its peak all I can remember is these few words coach ben told me. He said to me one day on my worst struggle “if you really want something you will fight for it and find a way to get there.” those words have affected my life ever since making me try harder and harder to achieve my goals and reach a level where I surpass my