Personal Narrative: How Football Changed My Life

I am a senior at Weslaco East High School. I was probably 6 when I got interested in playing football. My first experience of playing organized football was in the Weslaco Youth Football League. From then on I have loved the game of football. I come from a family of people who don’t play didn’t really play sports. My father played one year of of football in middle school and my mother was in JROTC in high school. My grandfather from my father’s side played baseball for a season or two in high school. Growing up in my life was a good experience. The household I grew up in was loving and supportive. They let me play sports I wanted to try but didn’t force me into any sports I didn’t want to do. I started my sports career with with playing baseball first then …show more content…
It eventually transitioned into just football once I accepted I was not good at baseball. I have been playing football nonstop since I was six years old. I started out playing in the Weslaco Youth Football League first, but then I was recruited to an all star team to play in tournaments. That team would evolve and become the Weslaco Thunder football team. It was a team in an organization called TYFA, Texas Youth Football League. It was basically a super team since it was full of handpicked players that played in the all star team. There was a summer and fall season. I would play both seasons. I got too old to play for the team in seventh grade. I then played for for Cuellar Middle School and eventually Weslaco East. I was extremely nervous playing in my first varsity game when I was a sophomore since I had always viewed the varsity players as