Soil Association

This image depicts sports stars as heroes as despite their active lifestyles and big pay, they still have time to help in the community with underprivileged people. In this case it is soccer star, David Beckham spending time within poverty stricken community and helping the younger kids out The salience of the image, which is the part which are eyes are first drawn to, is Beckham and the three young boys. This is because of the composition of the the image. The background has been blurred in…

I used to play soccer without shoes, because I used my shoes as goals. Imagine how hot our weather in Middle East. When my father’s favorite soccer team won, my father allowed me stay home rather than going to school the day after the game. We watched the soccer games again and again. We spend long time talking about soccer in school, home, work place, and wherever we are. Not only in Middle East, soccer is the most popular sport in the world. According to Statistics and Facts on Soccer (N.D)…

The day that would ultimately initiate the hunger for success was a day that I believed in myself and had faith in overcoming adversity. The week began in my freshman year when my close friends convinced me to try out for the Men’s Varsity Soccer team at my school. At the time, I had never played soccer a day in my life so, of course to anyone I was guaranteed to not make the team. Well, when I went to try-outs, I was struggling to keep up but I would always give it my all. Each day, I went to…

Smack in the Face Imagine you were on a mission trip. The group you were with got done with the first job you had to to then you went to a boys and girls club, and a kid ask you to go to the gym and play game with him. So you play with him and you throw a ball at one of your friends as hard as you can, miss miserably and hit a kid in the face. I went on a mission trip up to Duluth Minnesota with Carl Kruse, Dillion Bathke, Connor Jurens, Seth Sproke, Cole Riemersma, and a few others. It was…

In Alison Pearce Stevens’ “Soccer: Watch Out for Collisions” article out of Student Science is proving that head balls might not be the main cause of brain injuries in the game. In soccer, there is one major rule: no using arms or hands. As the ball floats through the air, the only other way to make contact with it and change its direction is to use his or her head. People have come to believe these head balls are the main cause of most concussions in soccer. Several sports organizations have…

One day I played a game. That game was lacrosse. When I first played I was 7; However I had never heard of lacrosse and chose to try It. After the first few weeks of practice we had our first game. I was excited for the chance to play a game. We got to the field early In the morning. The reddish orange sun was still rising over the horizon. The sun was a lantern that morning. The field was a green carpet with splotches of dark brown mud. As we walk across the field, I take a deep breath and…

sports isn’t the money they may win, popularity, or the trips and food you get, but they should do it for their health. Currently more than 17% (12.7 million) children and adolescents are suffering obesity according to Journal of American Material Association (JAMA). The fact that a children looks fat is not the problem; the problem is that it leads to a series of severe diseases. Complications…

I was waiting for the match ahead of me to be over. I hear the loud whistle come from the match and I walk over to the head table to check in. Butterflies were flying around my stomach. The people at the table hand me my band and I jog over to my coach, and see my opponent, the state champ. I put my green band on as my coach says “All you have to do is win the match and we win the duel.” That made my nerves go from 100 to 1,000. I walk to the center of the matt, and the ref walks over to us…

“You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.” -Abby Wambach (pinterest.com). Abby Wambach is a role model and a hero because of her determination to persevere when all odds seem against her, her supportive and everlasting positive attitude towards life, soccer,and her teammates, and her unmistakable role of leadership she plays for her teammates. Abby Wambach was born June 2, 1980 in Rochester New York. She was the youngest of seven kids. In high…

Being one of the only latino families in the community of Medford, I grew up aware of the fact that I wasn’t as similar as my classmates around me. By the time I had been old enough to understand this, I had already received subtle hints and jokes that referred to my race. It didn’t bother me then, until I was aware of the assumptions that came with it. In the summer before 2nd grade, the most talked about event was “Sign Up Day”. It was a day in which we could go and choose our extracurricular…