Why Sports Are Important To Me

Sports at renbrook have helped me gain many characteristics that benefit me everyday. Sports have made me the person I am today. In sixth grade I started three sports, football, hockey, and lacrosse. I was new to everyone of the sports, but I worked hard and I was able to pick them all up fast. At first I wasn’t sure I would ever make a varsity, and I didn’t know why playing sports was so important. I would soon find out how important it was. Football came the quickest by the end of seventh grade I had already left my mark on the team. Something about football just fit with me, I think it is the fact that all 11 players on your team have to put in all the effort they have, or nothing will be accomplished. At the end of my Renbrook career I had been a two time captain and had won two awards one for leadership and one .
Hockey was the sport I had to work the hardest for, this was because when I signed up in sixth grade I could barely skate. However I worked as hard as I could and eventually it came to me and I was skating with my other teammates. After sixth grade I had to …show more content…
My coaches and teammates helped me become the player I am today. By eighth grade I was a captain of all three of my sports, this is a big accomplishment for me, for I know my teammates look up to me, and it lets me know that all the hard work I put in payed off. Being a captain means so much more to me than just the title. I feel being a captain is like another position on the team, as a captain I believe that I should not only be setting a good example on how to play and how to show sportsmanship, but I should be helping my teammates with everything from managing homework during a day in which we have an away game or just knowing the personalities of all of my teammates and know how they want to learn the game. I want to be able to teach all of my teammates how to play the game the right way and how to show all of these games