Personal Narrative: My First Half Of High School Football

I’m going to write about my first half of my freshman year of high school football. I was really good in 7th and 8th grade and I tried to push myself really hard to be as good as a high school varsity player and get a starting position. But I wasn’t good enough. I broke my ankle my last second from last game in 8th grade running the ball and got tackled and fell hard on it breaking my tibia and fracturing my fibula and tearing all the ligaments in between. I had surgery on it. They placed a plate and four screws in it to mend the bones back together. I spent almost all summer trying to get my ankle into football playing condition. Stretching it and doing running exercises with it to get my muscle mass back into my leg that I lost from wearing …show more content…
When I could start practicing with pads I started trying to prove myself a varsity player by going my hardest and my fastest. But I obviously still started out as Junior varsity player as running back, defensive end and as the punter. I could run through people really easy as running back and get first downs pretty easy if I wasn’t winded. I also played as defensive end pretty good I could make sacks and make tackles in the back field pretty easily on the junior varsity team. But I wasn’t able to play a full 10 minute quarter game without being winded or out of breath. I was out of shape and I needed to be in shape to even think about playing a varsity down. So I pushed myself at practice trying to finish sprints faster before everyone else in my group. It took a long while to get into shape and I needed to get into shape faster so the day we had practice I’d go home and run and jog to get myself into shape faster. Coach noticed me getting into shape and trying my hardest to get myself a position so I got a chance at kickoff on varsity and I ran hard down the field and made tackles. I rotated at that position for a few varsity