Being on my high school football team, the honor roll, and in Teen Leadership are all accomplishments I am very proud of. Being able to stay focused and determined helped me to reach these accomplishments. When I set a goal for myself, as I did with those accomplishments, I have to achieve the goal because I don’t like to fail; it is something that I can’t and won’t accept. This past year in football I was faced with a great deal of adversity. Early in the football season I received two concussions which resulted in me not being able to play the rest of the season. It was very frustrating and hard on me because not only was I not able to play football, but school became very difficult; trying to remember all of the information. At first I didn’t
