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Catch Of My Life Over my shoulder, the ball was spinning through the air, ripping through the wind, and the crowd goes completely silent. As I feel the defender breathing down my back the pressure on me to make this catch intensifies knowing that this touchdown will help the team, and hopefully win this game. My mouth is dry, legs are feeling like lead, will I have enough power to leap and cross the goal line. The blood is rushing through my veins, my heart is pumping faster, and faster.…

Laws of Life In soccer every player must have a special ability like strength, speed, passing or dribbling, unfortunately I did not know what ability I had. So, when I was six I tried out for my local youth soccer academy. Believing I was pretty good for my age, but I came to realize that I was wrong. It turned out that the other kids trying out had much more talent than I did, and all I was doing was just going up and down chasing the ball. I was struggling and it got to the point where I just…

Let's set the scene: You and some friends create a team and join a soccer league. You are pumped for the new season, happy just to play this sport with some friends. Then you get an email from your coach. In it, he says that the team is spectacular but that the team can't play. He explains that your team was turned down because they had used up the budget for teams already. You are devastated. Later on, you hear that your team and a few others were rejected because they had put money that could…

When people think of home, they might think of a town, or a house. They might even think of a feeling or a memory. Home is the thing where everything feels perfect. For me, this perfect feeling is on one hundred yards of lined grass. A football field is where everything is at peace for me. It’s not just the football field, it’s the actual game of football. The fans, the team and even the goal posts are factors that make football such a beautiful game. My home can be described as the greatest…

By the end of September 26th I was exhausted. That was the day I did my semester project for civics class. I volunteered to staff the Kickfest soccer tournament that is held annually at the middle school. My day included field managing, working the concessions and even refereeing games. I volunteered with my friends Lindsay and Julia. We enjoyed the experience and plan on doing it again next year. We thought this was a really good way to help out a program that is on a budget and can't hire…

My mother always say, “Everything will work itself out.”. It reminds me that no matter how bad things may get, it will always get better. I go through life slowly, taking everything in and trying new things. Through the years I have been figuring out who I am. The three most important symbols on my mandala are soccer ball, heart, and a cross. The first symbol, soccer ball, stands for soccer, my favorite sport. Soccer takes me to a whole new world. Over the years I have tried many different…

In William Zinsser’s “How to Write a Memoir” it gives specific info for memoir writers. He says things like “Be yourself”, “Speak freely”, and “Tell your own story”. I “Soul Surfer” Bethany Hamilton does all these things. In “Soul Surfer” Bethany Hamilton is herself. She loves to surf and does her own thing. In the book it states (page 6) “…lots of girls agonize over what outfit to wear to school or on a date. Me? I always obsess over what bathing suit to put on for a surf.” She even…

Soccer versus football, they are very different sports. This includes the rules, the field, and the game. If you didn't know, soccer is a game played with a goalie who stands in the goalie box. He is the only player that can use his hands. In football you may use your hands any time you would like. You can catch, grab or throw the ball. In soccer you mostly use your feet, although in football you are allowed to kick the ball for field goals, punts, and for the kickoff. In the rules of…

Spring 2016 was my first season playing lacrosse at Edison High School. I was truly excited to learn a new sport. From what I knew, lacrosse was basically soccer with sticks; throwing and catching a ball with a stick seemed a relatively straightforward concept. In the first practice, I wasn’t able to throw or catch a single ball. Whenever I threw the ball, it fell out of my stick and whenever I tried to catch the ball, it bounced off the side or flew past me. Dismayed at my performance, I…

In all sports there are disagreements about which sports are actually a sport or if the sport is aggressive enough or not, or how they. But the two sports I would like to compare and contrasts are soccer and football. The most common thing in sports are injuries in both sports are in soccer was ranked the Sixth in “Top ten dangerous sports” and the reasons for being ranked sixth. In the year 2009 the “U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's statistics had revealed that 88,000 soccer player…