Stay In Sports Scholarship

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“Stay in sports because I know you’re good enough to get a scholarship”. This is what my dad told me every day of my life. I was always contemplating on whether to staying in sports was a good choice or not. As a b kid sports was my life; It revolved around the sport that I was in during that particular season. I was in basketball, base ball and shot put. The sport I was the best at was shot-put. 5 time national champ and has won 4 years IN a row. During baseball season the best accomplishments that I endured were a no-hitter and a home run. I was mediocre at basketball but “to be great you first have to be good”. It was the beginning of March and my junior year basketball season was over. I didn’t know why my future wasn’t the bigger picture

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