Student Athlete Narrative

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As a student athlete, I always had to withhold a tough image. When I entered high school in 9th grade I started off as the tough football player who played varsity. It was just 3 of us freshmen who made the varsity team. I was very happy but I never felt as good as I should have. Being that I sung in the church choir, I went and joined the school choir. So before every practice, I would go to choir and right after I would go work hard at football practice.
Through the choir, we did performances and play at other schools. The choir director knew me since I was kid and knew I had many talents. We performed a play call Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. During the intermission, she asked me and some of my friends to perform a song called

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