As a child, I would always want to be outside doing something. My mom had me age 17, still in high school, and she was still playing softball. For some odd reason, I remembered going to her games, as well as my aunts. My mom was the main reason for my love of softball. I believe I should be considered to win the Nebraska Softball Foundation Scholarship because softball is my life, I overcome obstacles well, and I have great leadership all around.
From when I was able to hold a ball in my hand, I have been playing catch and swinging those bats. At age seven, I was signed up for the Beemer T-Ball team. Would go down to the ball fields and have little practices/ scrimmages. When just learning the basics it is kind of then as I got older, I signed …show more content…
The first one started when I was just four years old, and I was in and out of the hospital. I had a kidney that wasn’t working and over taking the rest of my stomach area. having it removed wasn’t the bad thing, the thing that bothered me, was the words of “Her ability of playing sports and living a normal child life will be restricted.” this was due to the fact of them having to move my other kidney to the front of my body, and having a greater risk of getting hit. As I got older, I really became more cautious, and daring. I knew I wasn’t going to stop playing and that it would be an obstacle I would overcome and deal with. I got my doctor to sign me a note that was put in my medical reports that he approved of my ability to continue my athletics. I am proud to say that I have never had a problem. Not to mention, but in 2011 I met another bump. I was at softball practice, on 3rd base, ready to score, as I got my foot stuck in the dirt and behind me. I didn’t think anything of it and continued practicing, but later that night when my ankle swelled up to the size of a baseball, kind of made me think it was broke. The next day I was taken to the doctors, and the day after that I had surgery. I was at the age where I needed to be playing because it would affect me the most lately in the years. Luckily I never hit any other foul balls to encounter a problem with my
From when I was able to hold a ball in my hand, I have been playing catch and swinging those bats. At age seven, I was signed up for the Beemer T-Ball team. Would go down to the ball fields and have little practices/ scrimmages. When just learning the basics it is kind of then as I got older, I signed …show more content…
The first one started when I was just four years old, and I was in and out of the hospital. I had a kidney that wasn’t working and over taking the rest of my stomach area. having it removed wasn’t the bad thing, the thing that bothered me, was the words of “Her ability of playing sports and living a normal child life will be restricted.” this was due to the fact of them having to move my other kidney to the front of my body, and having a greater risk of getting hit. As I got older, I really became more cautious, and daring. I knew I wasn’t going to stop playing and that it would be an obstacle I would overcome and deal with. I got my doctor to sign me a note that was put in my medical reports that he approved of my ability to continue my athletics. I am proud to say that I have never had a problem. Not to mention, but in 2011 I met another bump. I was at softball practice, on 3rd base, ready to score, as I got my foot stuck in the dirt and behind me. I didn’t think anything of it and continued practicing, but later that night when my ankle swelled up to the size of a baseball, kind of made me think it was broke. The next day I was taken to the doctors, and the day after that I had surgery. I was at the age where I needed to be playing because it would affect me the most lately in the years. Luckily I never hit any other foul balls to encounter a problem with my