Soccer Changed My Life Essay

played soccer pretty much my entire life. Starting at age 4, I played a couple years on a team meant to teach the fundamentals and then tried out for a select club. In that club, I met and played with 5 of my future high school teammates. For this team, being a pretty decent player, I frequently played the entire game. Known for having above-average skills and speed, I made the JV team my freshman year and moved on to Varsity as a junior. I was of proud my role on the team. Soccer was my…

In my life I have had many challenges, privileged challenges but challenges nonetheless. What I mean by “privileged challenges” is that I’ve lead a very fortunate life with a family that loves me and has a steady income. Many people I meet I find that they are not as fortunate and it makes me feel as though I should be counting my blessings rather than complaining about the fact I didn’t get into my first choice or that I failed a test or that I’m stressed about the little things. Aside from…

The Day I Forgot When your going to a soccer game, you never know what's going to go down or what's going to happen. This particular soccer game changed my view on soccer and life itself. We were playing Woodbury, it was back in the 5th grade. My dad was my soccer coach at that time. My closest friends were on my soccer team, so it made soccer really a fun time for me. The game was going good so far, we were winning 2-1. But everyone knows that that’s the easiest time for a team to come back…

they will have at least one life changing moment, they could even have more than one. A life changing moment could happen right when a persons is born or it could happen right before they kick the bucket. Life changing moments can be a good or a bad thing. Basically what a life changing moment is, is something that happened that influences your life. Throughout my life I have had two major life changing moments that have changed my life. Both of these moments in my life happened around the same…

with a typical life was how the day of January 21, 2012 began. I woke up promptly at 6:15 like I did every single day and got ready. However today was just a little different because I had a soccer game that day. Typically, I would wear our school uniform but I was allowed to wear my jersey to school. The game I would play later that evening was our first area game and would consider us for the playoffs at the end of the season. However, it was what happened after the game that changed this…

seeing my mom cry herself to sleep while taking sleeping pills is an immensely painful memory. At a very young age, I became my mother’s care taker so that made my pain and feelings unimportant. During this time was when I felt forsaken and so pressurized to grow up. I felt I was living a nightmare. Over the years I became an older sister and caretaker to three siblings. I started raising my first sibling at age nine. I invariably felt pressured to gratify my mother even if that jeopardized my…

Life Of A College Athlete When you think about going to college and playing a sport your first thought is how does someone balance all of that. Well, honestly, most people don’t but the ones that do have a tough time balancing homework, their sport and their job if they have one. To show you what the life of a college athlete is like and to show how it 's different from high school, I interviewed Hannah Jones from the women 's soccer team. I 've known Hannah about all my life, we grew up…

Did that really just happen? “Come join us at soccer tryouts next Friday at the main field after school!” read the big, white flyer which I had picked up previously in the week after hearing about this eye-opening news during morning announcements. I was sitting on the bench outside reading the details as I waited in line for the person whose reaction I was most anxiously waiting to see. As a 5th grader, my first instinct was to alert my mom right away, which is exactly what I did as soon as I…

As I sit in my 8th hour seminar classroom, with some students working on homework, some on tests, others just enjoying each other’s company. I sit pondering about the topic of my essay. As I take another glance of all the students in the classroom, I realize how incredibly hard it is to narrow my experience and journey I have had in America with people from all different backgrounds down to one event. Examining my surroundings, i see a diverse group of people who look different than me, who are…

changes her in this book. Before the book she acquired character traits such as good student and a better daughter, but after she is changed she is depressed and a trouble maker. Before the Bubblegum Reaper and Alex,Nanette is very good student and a better daughter character. “I walked right out of the building, cutting school for just the second time in my life”(Quick 122). As we can see Nanette is ditching school to do something else. This is not Nanette before the Bubblegum Reaper and…