I have played baseball ever since I was a young kid, but somehow, at seventeen I still had numerous struggles with it. You would think after my grandpa being drafted to the Pittsburgh Pirates, a Major League baseball team, and my dad getting a full ride to the University of Denver their skill would have rubbed off on me, but you would be wrong. I wasn't terrible, I could hit a 90 mile per hour fastball and I could, for the most part, field a ground ball. However, I was definitely not about to be scouted by the college scouts.…
Do you want to know how I grew up from a small town in Iowa to the best football player and coach? When I was about 8 I started playing football. I was the best linebacker in high school and college football. I was the 1st, 1st round pick in the NFL draft. Retired and became the best football coach in history.…
If I can overcome this, I can overcome anything My father had always told me, “A small setback is just only a setup for a great comeback.” I had played football practically all of my life, from Little League Football to High School Football. It was my freshman year of Highschool, and football season had just begun. There was nothing to stop me from playing football for the rest of my life, so I had thought.…
1. Give some 2-3 examples of negative speech patterns that you use. What is going through your mind when you are thinking this way? Two examples of negative speech patters that I use is “I am terrible at this subject” and “I cannot do this”.…
I would like for you to get to know me a little bit better. I'm going to tell you just a few of my passions. You can tell a lot about someone by their interests. Growing up I’ve always been raised around sports. Basketball it was the Denver Nuggets until Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony traded teams.…
JROTC FINAL The skill map is an excellent way for a cadet to see where he/ she is struggling and even where they exceed personally. Every cadet has the ability to improve from previous scores to become better as a cadet and a person. At the beginning of the year I had an average self-esteem that I was quite comfortable with.…
Football I started playing flag football in pre-school and i fell in love with the sport. I was always watching football games cheering for my favorite team ,the Denver Broncos. I could hardly wait to play tackle football In 3rd grade ,was ready to play tackle football.…
The phone rings at 9 o'clock in the morning. “Syd coach Smith just passed… he had a heart attack last night!” exclaims Kieanna. Confused I respond, “What?” The phone goes completely silent and then tears are heard, they are Kieanna’s. Throughout my years in high school I have participated and many different activities at my school.…
This was the day I have been waiting for, my first football game for my middle school football team. This was one of the best moments I have had in my life. It was my time to shine and show the other team what I got. It was almost game time and we were playing Arndt Middle School. It was almost kickoff and our team got the ball first.…
It was the end of my sophomore soccer season on Junior Varsity. We didn't win a single game and got blown out by large margins game after game. It hurt me to leave the field on our last game with so little success in the entire season. I was deeply disappointed and wanted deep down to have more success . I knew next year was different I was going to pour my heart and soul and make the Varsity and move on from this year.…
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute or a hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.” - Lance Armstrong June 21st, 2016 friday afternoon, a day that to this day I will never forget it. It was the beginning of my senior football season during preseason…
I started my football career at the age of eight and fell in love with it ever since. I was involved in a flag football program for a couple of years till i wanted to play tackle football. The only problems with me playing tackle football was my parents fear of me getting hurt.…
At first, It was my team and I just sitting in our little locker room. We were banging on the lockers as hard our hands could handle. Then the music started playing. “BOOM! HERE COMES THE BOOM, I DON’T REALLY WANT IT NOW.”…
A Football story Last year we had football season and I was on the middle school and high school team. It was fun being on the highschool and varsedy. I like I like to think that I was the best one out their because I was the one who would run out their to the players. It was fun going to all the football games because it was so much fun. One thing cam me going.…
It started at the end of 7th period . The feeling you have when you know something amazing is going to happen. As the bell rings letting us know that we need to go to the cafeteria. We walked in everyone is quiet because we are focus on one single goal to win. “Take your headphones off”,Coach says to us.…