During my sophomore year I got cut from the lacrosse team. At the time, I had been playing for 3 years. All of my friends played with me. When I go cut, I felt shocked that was followed by tears. Donya, a player who also got cut, was extremely upset and thought her life was over, but I knew mine was not. I wanted to continue playing a sport and being active and I would not let being cut from a team stop me. 10 minutes late I passed the track team whose coach was my biology teacher. It dawned on me that the opportunity to not give up was right in front of me even if i had to compromise on my friends. I walked over to the Coach and asked if it was too late to join and she eagerly responded, “of course not!”. From 10 minutes after i got cut to
