Lacrosse

The Move I have moved six times in the course of my seventeen years of living. Moving is fun getting to discover new places and meeting new people, but moving can also be very difficult having to leave close friends that you have grown very close to over the years. The toughest move yet has been from Nashville Tennessee to Birmingham Alabama. I had lived in Nashville for eight years and had started to think that we were never going to move again until the summer of my seventh grade year when my…

diabetes, infects only 5% of people with diabetes. It usually occurs in children and young adults. People with type 1 diabetes have to be very careful to check the sugar level in their blood, especially during athletic activity. My friend from my lacrosse team had to take breaks during the game to check his sugar levels and sometimes drink juice or eat candy bars if his levels were too low. Type 1 diabetes is when the body does not produce insulin. Insulin is needed to get sugars from food…

Undeniably, the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is an interesting yet enlightening read about a girl named Melinda Sordino who faces depression after a traumatic incident. There are multiple settings, but there are two major ones. The story mostly takes place at the MerryWeather High School. This is a place where Melinda fears to be at because she can run into Andy Evans, the boy who raped her at the summer party that left her devastated. The next setting is at Kyle Rodger’s party, this is…

Football just happens to be one of them. People always talk about how dangerous football is, but so is any other sport. According to the Head Case Company, there is a 50% or higher chance of getting a concussion in ice hockey, soccer, lacrosse, wrestling, and of course football. Therefore, to prevent concussions, we would have to ban almost all sports, which would not be fair. The opposing claim is understandable, as it comes from the parent's point of view. It would be heart-breaking…

cleaning fire trucks, and when he turned 16 Welles signed up to be a junior firefighter member. Finally, when he turned 18 he gained firefighter status at Hook and Ladder. Welles attended Boston College, where he joined and became a captain of the lacrosse team there. Then he received a job on the 104th…

There is a student sitting in his dorm studying for his last final of his senior year in college. Furiously concentrating on his notes he scans sheet after sheet of information. His palms coated in a thin film of sweat from grasping his notecards so tightly. It’s 4am now and his eyes are bloodshot red and his exam is at 8:30A.M. After a few hours of rest he quickly took a shower grabbed his testing materials and left out of the dorm. He had his last date with fate on this day. A few weeks later…

hard work I learned that practice makes perfect and you must always set yourself up for success. If you consistently push yourself during fitness, you will notice how fit you feel during the game when everyone else in buckled over breathing hard. Lacrosse taught me leadership when I was forced to step up and push my team to work hard. I encouraged, directed and befriended everyone the best I could. It is rewarding to see the player you helped teach the fundamentals to, score the game winning…

Basketball was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith. Dr. Naismith was born in Canada. He was 31 years old and a graduate student from Presbyterian College in Montreal, Canada, when he decided that he wanted to follow his passion of athletics. He moved to Springfield, Massachusetts to study physical education and work as a physical education instructor at Springfield College. The college was also known as the School of Christian Workers, at that time. (Where 1) In his second year of college,…

In the 1870s and 1880s hockey in Canada was blooming. At first, hockey was just the winter version of lacrosse made to keep lacrosse players busy during the winter, but soon it was being played all over the country. After years of being in Canada it eventually moved to the United States. In the 1800s, hockey was a very different sport. There were no ice-making machines, so game were played outside where cold weather froze rivers and ponds that they could play on. Today, what would be called…

surgery and now in many fields including sports medicine. The x-ray machine (1895) produces an image that looks at the bones under the skin. Weather you are a sports medicine doctor or a physical therapist you see most injuries occur from football, lacrosse, and track and field. Most sports injuries don’t require surgery. It depends on your age and extent of damage to know if you can recover from the injury. Impact Sports medicine has many impacts on the world today, allowing injured athletes…