In the tenth grade, I learned that not everyone is going to like me. I have always viewed myself as someone that gets along with everyone. I had many friends. I was polite to everyone. I was good at what I did. I felt as I was well respected by my peers and coaches. I couldn’t think of one person that I didn’t get along with: until I met Rob Webb. At the time, Rob Webb was the soccer coach for the u18 elite girl’s soccer team for the club that I played for back home. Our club did tryouts for age’s u15-u18 together. I showed up that Saturday morning thinking that this tryout was stupid because we all knew who was going to be on the u15 team. I was the captain, why did I have to try out again? Little did I know that I was going to be invited
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It seemed like he didn’t care to know things about me like I had asthma that got worse when I was stressed out. I also had shin splints (which was actually compartment syndrome) that kept me from keeping up with the other girls. He didn’t even play me in my position as a defender. I was forced to play new positions and play them as well as my elite teammates. I felt like I was set up to fail. At times, I would feel like I was doing a good job until this man is yelling at me across the field telling me saying how awful I’m doing in front of everyone. My parents asked me if I wanted to try to move back down to the younger team and it was a plausible decision for me to …show more content…
I saw that I wasn’t the only one that had the Rob Webb Experience. I was able to see that they all pushed through and survived his tough criticism to become the great players they were. At the time, I didn’t think I would learn much from Rob. Now I can see that he has shown me how to excel in times of extreme stress. I have learned that I don’t always have to get along with a person to be able to look past the differences and work together. Obviously, it is important to be friendly, but you can’t always control a person’s personality. Rob has showed me how look past the disagreements so I can focus on the main goal;
It seemed like he didn’t care to know things about me like I had asthma that got worse when I was stressed out. I also had shin splints (which was actually compartment syndrome) that kept me from keeping up with the other girls. He didn’t even play me in my position as a defender. I was forced to play new positions and play them as well as my elite teammates. I felt like I was set up to fail. At times, I would feel like I was doing a good job until this man is yelling at me across the field telling me saying how awful I’m doing in front of everyone. My parents asked me if I wanted to try to move back down to the younger team and it was a plausible decision for me to …show more content…
I saw that I wasn’t the only one that had the Rob Webb Experience. I was able to see that they all pushed through and survived his tough criticism to become the great players they were. At the time, I didn’t think I would learn much from Rob. Now I can see that he has shown me how to excel in times of extreme stress. I have learned that I don’t always have to get along with a person to be able to look past the differences and work together. Obviously, it is important to be friendly, but you can’t always control a person’s personality. Rob has showed me how look past the disagreements so I can focus on the main goal;