Friday Night Games

feeling of playing in a football game is hard to explain without experiencing it personally. The rush of adrenaline you get is overwhelming. This could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you deal with the surge of adrenaline you get. I wonder what it feels like for a coach going into a football game. Are they excited, nervous, confident, worried? I’ve wondered how the game of football is from the coach’s perspective. I’ve seen it and experienced the game of football as a player but…

Sydney challenged Brynn to 1 on 1 game to 21 points. “ Sure why not?”, Brynn replied. So they started up the game. “You can have ball first Sydney”, Brynn told her. “Seriously, okay”, Sydney replied surprised. Sydney scored 2 points right away and then Brynn stole the ball from Sydney. Again Sydney was surprised at how much better Brynn got. “How much did you practice last night Brynn”, she asked. Brynn replied, “I stayed up until one in the morning last night because of how bad I want to be on…

June 18 2014 changed my life forever. I was playing soccer and there was less than five minutes left in the game. My one leg planted as I pivoted around a defender. I heard a crack and I went down. That one moment changed everything that I thought I knew my life was. I had played soccer since I was three. I loved it, everything about the game was fun. I had played all the positions over the years, but forward was definitely my favourite. I especially loved playing forward in the outdoor…

learning many life skills. The reason for this is because we were playing a life game. We would pretend to cook, therefore, learning how to set the table and put dishes in the skin. We were learning how to care for someone by helping them get ready for bed. I believe playing house is a great game to help children learn. They are experiencing life lessons that will benefit them as they grow up. I do believe that this weekly game helped me be who I am today. I believe that always playing the…

As a child I was always very interested in football. I knew it was something I would like to try but my mother had different ideas. She worried about me playing such a high contact sport and instead offered me the option of playing soccer. Although soccer was fun, I knew it wasn’t a sport that would hold my interest for long. When I got to high school I finally convinced my mom to let me play football. It helped that my uncle had played throughout high school. So, he served as my primary…

tend not to lose it as it will benefit many aspects of your life. According to dictionary.com self-confidence is “realistic confidence in one’s own judgement, ability and power.” As a hockey player here at USU self-confidence can make or break your game, if you don’t feel like a winner you will not play like a winner. In the history of hockey all winning teams give credit to their team having It’s not a natural feeling to think you can beat the odds, the difficulty or overcome the adversity…

funny because all my teammates always made fun of me being a pitcher because of what happened my very first game. I was out…

I still remember the day I started Fun Friday with my family. It all started when I got angry at my brother Joe “who does not live with us” but visit us every Friday. We would always get into these crazy fight about nothing and would always challenge each other with activities or board games. That is how we can vent ourselves of anger to each other. My brother Joe is the opposite of me, whatever I like he dislike and whatever I dislike he like. I was chubby and he was skinny, I was younger and…

As a young girl, I spent the vast majority of my time sequestered in my room with my dolls. They helped me to escape my reality. They listened to me without judgement and gave voice to the conversations that I desperately wanted to have but could not. I remember vividly wanting a Barbie that had brown hair and green eyes. I wanted a doll that represented me, one that looked like me or at least seemed like the person I wanted to grow up to be. I don’t remember my age when I saw my first…

and they want to play. I found that the more I actually engaged the kids and played with them the more fun I had. I think the best feeling I had was when one of the girls I had taught a game to the previous week, saw me standing at the check-in table, ran up and hugged my waist and asked if we could play the game again and that she wanted to teach some of her new friends. This was super impactful, and my heart could not have gone out to her more in that…