Sophomore

was going to be the type of student who woke up for school, left, and then came back home once it was time to. I never thought I was ever going to join a sport/clubs, go to school games etc. In that moment it never seemed like my thing. Coming my Sophomore year the opportunity of joining a sport came along. At first I wanted to be so fond of the idea but there was still a part of me that wanted to stay with what I knew was comforting to me. I decided to join my school’s tennis team and this…

Just like anybody else, there are certain things I’m very passionate about. It is also a part of how I was raised to try and make a change in what I believe is wrong. One problem I’m exceptionally passionate about and am in the process of solving is bullying. To be specific, myself and others would like to solve the bullying of high school athletes by their coaches. Unfortunately this past summer, I was cut from my high school volleyball team. This decision wasn’t based on the usual…

Yet despite the frequency of such situations the opportunities that follow are rarely mentioned. When examined closely it becomes obvious that failure is simply the mask of success. One example of challenge to triumph is Michael Jordan. As a sophomore in high school he was cut from the varsity basketball team. At the time it may have been humiliating, but that painful rejection caused Michael to work harder than ever before. According to Ruby Smith, a physical education teacher at the same…

lawyer or doctor. I did not chose the field of social work until the end of my junior year in high school. At that time, for the second time in my life, my heart was shattered. My grandmother died. I was taking care of her since the beginning of my sophomore year. And during the process of helping take care of her, I learned about the resources that was available. This is what really got in interested at first. Once my grandmother was placed in hospice, I got to see a social worker in action.…

Proof of this can first be seen through my high school soccer career. During my Sophomore and Junior years, I was chosen to play on the JV team which is something that would discourage most players. Once my senior year came along, I could either settle and be a bench player or work hard and become a starter. In the offseason I dedicated…

has also helped me grow as a person. I’ve learned how to interact better with people because of band; I’ve also learned how to be an effective leader by being in the William Blount High School Band. I auditioned to be a drum major at the end of my sophomore year. Thankfully, I was awarded the position of pregame drum major. My senior year I auditioned again and I became a halftime…

year and was left to play junior varsity freshman and sophomore year, without receiving much advice from the coaches throughout the first two years. I contemplated quitting tennis because it seemed pointless and time consuming. I felt like I was failing at tennis because of the build-up from the assistant coach before my freshman season. Luckily, I contacted tennis pro at the Tipton Lakes Athletic Club in Columbus. I met with him after the sophomore season and…

Growing up, soccer was my life. Everything I did, everybody I knew all came from this. It all started when I was in third grade when my step-dad asked me if I wanted to start playing soccer. I was always kicking around a soccer ball or shooting in the small goal outside so being on an actual team was a scary thought. He would always be a defender and let me try to score on him but with him being 200 pounds and me being 80, it was always a hard thing to do. But nonetheless, I decided that…

I am a leader in many areas of life whether that's the classroom, clubs, or at home but the place where I show the most leadership is the sports field. Of the two sports seasons so far this year I have been on Junior Varsity and Varsity for both of them and during Track in the spring there is only Junior Varsity and Varsity, no Freshman teams. During the final day of volleyball tryouts we had a "conditioning day" where we would rotate through stations with a different exercise routine at each…

My narrative essay is from when I first discovered I wanted to be a teacher and how it came about. It was not a triumph or anything of that sort, it took a struggle for me discover what I wanted to be. It also took the encouragement and help of a highschool teacher that I didn’t even have for class at the time, but he was committed to helping me. My first two years of highschool I didn’t care about grades or what I got as long as my grades were good enough to keep playing sports, everything was…