I felt a sharp pain, suddenly stopped, and fell to the ground. I had to be carried off the field. I didn’t even get hit by anything, something just felt like it snapped. There was an ice-pack on my leg, slowly freezing it until I couldn’t feel it anymore. Right after the game finished, we went straight to the ER.…
The rest of the school day seemed to fly by and before I knew it I was at the fields about to start practice. Our coach called us out and told us to go to the position we wanted to play. I went to short as well as the coach 's son(Sean). There was nobody at second and the unpredictable…
I don't remember anything until I walked off the field to go to the hospital. The sports trainer said I was saying things that did not make sense. I…
One day on a sunny, beautiful sunday. I woke up and was getting ready for my baseball game. At the time baseball was my favorite sport. I was one of the best players on my team. I left around ten o’clock that morning and stopped at Burger King and got some breakfast.…
¨Time to go!¨ yelled Mom, ¨Ok let me just put away my toys and grab my gear¨ I anwsered. It was Summer 2013, I was 7 years old and I was going to my final game of the baseball season. Thinking about how I would, considering I was playing with kids 2 to 3 years older than me. When I had arrived the team was already starting to practice. The game was about to start, so I got ready to gear up and play.…
After the elbow, came the ground and my head hit the turf so hard my head whipped back and I thought my head was broken. When I got up off the ground, my head was pounding and I was seeing stars, but I wanted to keep playing because I loved the game so much.…
Over the years I have gained a true passion for sports. It is something I do everyday. Without sports I am in a nonstop cycle of boredom. Now, I didn’t just magically pick up a baseball one day threw it around. I had to learn and practice consistently or I would not excel at any sport.…
Living with a traumatic brain injury is the worst thing that ever happened to me. When I was Eight years old I cracked my skull at my elementary school, it all happened when I was playing tag with my best friend Blanca. I went on the other side of the school and hid behind a bench, on a bar, above a window well. In second grade you're not smart enough to know that those bars are there for a reason… you just see them and go to them without even thinking.…
Our team had just finished the second game of the day in Cooperstown NY. We had already lost a game and we had to win the next game to move on. I was pitching this next game. I was prepared and then went to warm up. “10 minutes to game time!”…
The anticipation for Thanksgiving break is over the top. The thought of home cooked meals, family, and no professors talking a student 's ear off for a week are heavenly. Of course all the classic thanksgiving things happen but there are also psychological things that go on. (Darn that psychology sneaking its way into everything, it obviously never goes on break.) Although psychology is used every minute of every day i 'm only going to talk about 5 concepts, persuasion, cognition, emotion, personality, and the self.…
I distinctly remember getting up one Saturday morning during Christmas break and knowing from that instant that something was wrong. I had a feeling in my gut, I did not smell the cinnamon rolls baking in the oven, the TV was blaring, and my parents bed was not made. I walk out into the living room to find my mom and dad glued to CNN news channel on the TV. It had been two weeks since my brother’s last shore leave on deployment, which means it had been two weeks since we have heard from him. The TV was flashing and the headlines were running across the screen.…
Personal Narrative I am in such disbelief of what has just happened, my mind is blank and I am frozen. Do you ever have moments that change the way you think about yourself? Well, I had one of those moments. It was in the summer of 2017, and it was my last softball game of the season. I woke up that morning ready to beat the Presque Isle Panthers, not knowing what was about to happen.…
Winter break last year was an experience for me that I will never forget. It is when I found who I was and who my real friends and family were. I went into winter break that year as one person and came out a totally different person. Many people do not know why I changed so dramatically, they questioned a lot. I tried to explain but no one understood.…
Christmas break in my opinion is probably the second best brake that we have throughout our school year. The main thing I like about Christmas break is how long it is. But even though I like how long we are off school it's almost like we don't have a break because basketball takes over. We get a few days off but the rest of the days are hitting the gym early in the mornings for two to three hours a day. The days I have is the best thing in the world because I get to relax and do something fun for once.…
It was Easter break of my junior year in high school. I had just finished recovering from a catastrophic injury that I had received while playing football. I had broken my ankle and needed to have a plate and seven screws put into it. It was difficult mentally and physically to come back from being my whole life basically, revolves around athletics. Having my life being impacted by this incident alone I was having a tough time from getting my mind straight.…