Sophomore

Last year, Freshman Gia Colombo, now a Sophomore was the new girl in town. She moved from Massachusetts to a town that not many people have heard of called Waxhaw in the state of North Carolina. Moving here, Gia did not have many friends, it was a tough year for her. Throughout the couple of days of the start of the new school year many people had found Gia rather annoying she indicated. Most people called her out in front of the class which embarrassed her plenty because she was a ¨know it all¨…

always required the very best no matter what the circumstance is; on the pitch, in the classroom, or in everyday life you had to put one hundred percent in everything you do, or else there’s somebody is ready to take your job. One example is my sophomore year in high school my coach said I would get big minutes this year. That was not the case my touch on the ball, and work ethic dropped off when I was subbed out for a much better player early in the season after our foreign exchange students…

Being a student at Southwest High School, I always struggled with math. I never understood it, and I wondered to myself “am I not smart enough?”. Here came my sophomore year and I had a class with a teacher named Ms Velasquez. my first day of school had finally came and I thought to myself “well here i go to barely passing another class”. I came in and automatically she gave us a math test, I was so disappointed. She wanted to see what we knew and how we can improve our math, it is not like…

talented, and a great role model and I wanted to be just like her. I dedicated myself and practiced diligently to accomplish my goal. I was going to make captain my senior year. My hard work and dedication paid off, as I was awarded my first solo my sophomore year. I was confident that I was on track to accomplish my goal of captain. Following my junior year, the decision was made, and I was…

Road to States It was a foggy September Morning, and the start to the Mid Penn High school golf championship was just one hour away. I've made it to the Mid Penn Championship three times now, the last two years, I was unable to shoot the score needed to get me into the District three championships. This was my last year and I had to make the most of it to show myself and others that I can go somewhere with this sport. I've only played four years of competitive golf. Before Golf, I was a travel…

has done. I was going to school in a small town. I was an advanced in most of my classes. By my sophomore year in high school I had taken all the classes that were offered there. My mom insisted on my staying in that school because I had gone there my whole life and it was close to home. I realized that by staying there, I was keeping myself from reaching my full potential. At the end of my Sophomore year, I transferred to a new school. I moved to a School that was almost a half hour away, but…

League I would attend. My aunt talked me out of being a lawyer, instead proposing I should become a doctor. My mom scolded me for bringing home anything other than an A on a test because I didn’t apply myself as well as I should have. The end of my sophomore year my GPA was 4.1818, and I was four months pregnant. As it often, and ironically, does, academic intelligence doesn’t equate to common sense. I dropped out my junior year of high school to start my new life as a mom. I was 25 when I…

of the first times I was surrounded by players that were miles ahead of me. I loved it but I noticed that as I got older, in seventh and then eighth grade, I was back on top and the music wasn’t nearly as challenging. I noticed this trend again sophomore year in highschool. I was in the higher level symphony orchestra and was at the bottom of the runt. I, once again, immediately noticed my improvement. My physics teacher once shared an analogy with us: Each morning when the zebras wake up…

varsity captain’s little sister. I was exhausted every day after practice, however I eventually gained a deeper understanding of the game and grew to love it. Over the next three years I moved up the team ladder playing on both JV and varsity as a sophomore, finally moving up to varsity as a junior and senior.…

Transformation Journey My transformation from childhood to adulthood came as a 16 year old highschool student. At this point in time I had experienced senioritis (as a sophomore). School as a whole is a test of discipline more than intelligence, and as a “kid” I would brush tasks off to the side and only focus on assignments that interested me. Laziness had fully taken over my life and because of it I was unable to focus during school, on the baseball field, and with friends. Going into…