Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Community Soccer Coach

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I am a community soccer coach, coaching for Augusta Arsenal Soccer Club, which is a travel team in which I work with boys and girls from all ages. I also coach at Augusta Christian High School and currently have the boys and girls varsity soccer programs. I am also the volunteer soccer director of the Eagles Home School Program, in which I organize all their games, practices and assign coaches for their boys and girls soccer programs. Outside of coaching I participate in a variety of soccer leagues as a player in which I play with guys my age as well as women in seasons through the year.
My first middle school that I ever coached (Episcopal Day School) won their league championship. The of the club teams I have coached with Augusta Arsenal
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At first I did not know English very well and entered culture shock to be in such a remote area in which not only spoke English but also had little to no cultural connection with my own. School was very tough, enduring the mockery of others and adjusting to learning everything in a new language had me in tears for many nights. With my back agains the wall I learned English with in two months, I was able to communicate with my teaches and peers as well as earn the Honor Roll. Since then i never want English to limit me, therefore, I worked very hard to master the language. After graduating high school it was very difficult to attend college, I had earned a lot of financial aid through my grades, but I was not able to get access to them because of my immigration status. This delayed my pursuit of a higher education as I tried to resolve my immigration issues. Nearly ten years later I am now a permanent resident of the United States and I am able to have access to financial aid needed to go to school. I was able to remain patient and disciplined to prepared myself financially to pay for majority of my associates degree out of pocket. Those ten years showed me the value of education as I had to settle for jobs that only required a high school diploma. As long and testing at they were at times I feel it was those moments that God chose in my life to sharpen me to the individual I …show more content…
No one in my family has even graduated college let alone receive any kind of scholarship to attend it. I also feel that such an accomplishment would only motivate me more to maintain and attempt to achieve better grades to hopefully continue such a complementary

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