The Varsity

With an expressive hiss the door slid open. The cold, moist weather sprinted in the door painting goose bumps over every inch of our bodies. To stay warm, we had to keep any unprotected skin tucked away from the harsh October weather. The Sartell Varsity Soccer Team and I slowly inched our way off the bus in an attempt to stay as long as possible in the warmth. Taking my first step onto the wet cement sidewalk, I was battered with frigid snow and strong winds. I had only just stepped foot on the…

My life outside of school is very important and molded me into the person I am today. I enjoy many things out of school, during the summer and fall I play varsity Highschool football. Football takes up a great deal of my time. Even when were not in season lifting and staying in shape is imperative to success on the field. Before games I like to maintain the idea that were all kids out here for the same reason, too win. Off the field we assist the Habitat for Humanity organization every year and…

A meaningful challenge I faced was trying to make my school’s varsity soccer team. I’m not the best soccer player, but this challenge taught me that hard work can definitely make up for talent. It also taught me about resilience and perseverance. My sophomore year I failed to score in the championship game that costed my team win. I felt defeated because not only had I let down myself, but also my team because they were depending on me to do my job and I didn’t. This dropped my confidence in my…

since you’re the captain, it’s your job to be in charge of ordering warm ups,” my coach warned me.That one little sentence made me cringe. I was now in charge of selecting the warmups, gaining consensus, collecting money, and purchasing them for the Varsity Girls’ Soccer Team. A couple of days after I was delegated to be in charge of warm-up duty, I realized I should just accept the responsibility and stop putting it off any longer. After researching online for hours for the best looking…

It was the biggest night of our school history. My Proctor High School varsity soccer team and I were on our way to Morrisville, New York, where we would be playing our regionals championship match. Heading into the championship game, we were all focused and let nothing distract us from our mental state of concentration. There was nothing more we wanted than to make the night ours and make history for our beloved school. After triumphing in our sectional championship game against Cicero-North…

changed by the learning experiences that I have endured through my endless determination to become a varsity soccer player. Junior year was in the midst and so were tryouts for soccer, during the winter season. So, I tried out and was selected into junior varsity. My season was very fine as I was a starter for either center back or striker. In the end of the season, during the banquet, the Varsity coach pulled me over to talk to me about next year, how he wanted me on the team, but I had to put…

It was the end of my sophomore soccer season on Junior Varsity. We didn't win a single game and got blown out by large margins game after game. It hurt me to leave the field on our last game with so little success in the entire season. I was deeply disappointed and wanted deep down to have more success . I knew next year was different I was going to pour my heart and soul and make the Varsity and move on from this year. Thats what I did the next summer I showed up and early to every day of…

life, help you recover from, and make you realize that if you apply yourself you have a greater chance at accomplishing your goals. One of the biggest times of failure in my life was my sophomore year on the Lewisville Varsity Wrestling team. It was my first year on the Varsity team and i had…

The girl’s varsity basketball program at Rockwall High School holds one state championship title, an unbroken district championship record of nearly twelve years and has competed in a total of three state championship games since 2005; the third state championship being in 2011¬, my freshman year. Though I had been playing basketball all my life, I knew I could improve myself after having been on the “B team” in middle school. I was still just discovering how to be fully in control of my long,…

A blackberry moment of mine was when the Elkhorn Area High School Varsity Football Team won the game against Delavan-Darien High School - the biggest rivalry in Southeast Wisconsin. Just talking about it puts a smile on anyone’s face that was at that game. This rivalry dates back to 1995 and has such high tension that the whole state knows about it. It was my freshman year of high school and I had not experienced the rivalry before but the upperclassman did a great job introducing it to us…