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I was four years old when I started playing soccer, and at ten I knew I wanted to play in college. Soccer has been a huge part of my life for twelve years now, growing up I had always played defense and loved it. When eighth grade came around, my travel team needed a goalie, I decided to take one for the team and become our goalie for that season instead of playing my usual position. Playing goalie was never my first choice, but I knew that I had to do it if I wanted to play soccer that season,…

For my photoethnography project, I decided to observe local dive bar Frank & Marlee’s in Oxford, Mississippi. Frank and Marlee’s hosts a special every Tuesday called “Taco Tuesday” and offers dollar tacos, as well as eight-dollar margarita pitchers. Many students and residents frequent this tavern to enjoy drinks and food everyday. However even though many people find Frank & Marlee’s accepting and inviting, I discovered many attributes often don’t represent that notion. Todd Lynch and his…

It was a perfect evening for a soccer game, the weather was just right, with a nice breeze that wasn’t too chilly. The parking lot was filled with cars as it was the North Polars first home soccer game of the season. Walking up the stairs , onto the bleachers, the first thing you hear is the energizing rap music, the parents sitting on the left and students on the right all dressed with school spirit, red, white and black and across the field the visiting team had a couple of spectators dressed…

The Field "Ethan are you ready?" I hear Coach say to me on the bench, "go give Cameron a break." I walk on the field, a 70-80 yard long 60 yards wide expanse with two goals, a ball and two teams of 11 working as a whole trying to achieve the same objective: to score a goal and win the game. This is my favorite place to be, the one place where I feel the inner most tranquility. The soccer field is the battleground covered in the blood and sweat from that army of eleven, the field is filled…

I take a deep breath. My gloved hand finds the orange painted metal of the crossbar and I hang on for dear life. I can feel my heart racing as I run my fingers along the cold, white plastic of my lacrosse stick. Coach calls me over to the sidelines and smiles down at me through the bars of my helmet. I look at him expectantly. “You’re going to be fine, you are ready for this,” he says as he adjusts the straps on the side of my head with a pop and a click. I can feel the adrenaline rushing…

My Biggest Accomplishment By Carston Miller My name is Carston Miller and one of my biggest accomplishment is when I was invited to play for the South Dakota United soccer team. I’ve been playing for this team for about 2 and a half years and have gotten to know everyone on our team. Some of them are from Huron, Sioux Falls, and Watertown, but the majority of them are from Rapid. There’s only two of us from Pierre, me and another in the high school. I am also one…

Looking at my poster, there is a variety of objects that appear to have nothing in common. What they do have in common is me. Brainstorming for this project was difficult because I thought there would be no way that a poster could summarize my life. But, as I was putting the poster together, I realized it wasn’t very hard to condense me as a person to a sheet of paper with objects on it. I chose objects that have to do with things i’m involved in or that represent who I am. I chose to include…

Crushed Dreams Brian-Felipe Rosales My dream was to become a professional footballer. I had done many things to start achieving this goal of mine. I started by making the Iowa ODP team, Iowa’s Olympic Development Program. It is a team that travels across the nation where thousands of colleges and professional coaches see young talent play. The year after that, I decided to join one of the best soccer academies up in Des Moines: the Des Moines Menace Academy. There is no good way to start this…

My utopia would be in a place were there is no such thing as sickness,no poverty and most of all everyone is going to play soccer. there is going to be many soccer fields some will be located indoors and some will be located outdoors.there is going to be a mandatory soccer game once a day that we will play for a trophy.there will be a special soccer field built for the mandatory soccer game it will be completely different from all the other soccer fields.everyone will have a chance to pick…

Global Effects The Super Bowl utter dominance within the U.S. fails to translate onto the international stage. It is behind a number of sports, such as soccer, rugby, even cricket. It’s American-centric base excludes the rest of the world, as other countries are much more focused on sports where their own people are competing. Even when referring to the sport, one must say “American Football”, rather than just football, as the rest of the world uses that term for soccer. However, NFL has…