Women's Tennis Association

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Let’s talk about my soccer experience. Nah, let’s call it futbol, the real futbol. I’m from Honduras, a place where the sport that plays the most is futbol. I started to play futbol when I was maybe 5 years old. Oh, men, I was a super fan. I loved it so much. It was everything to me. The only thing in my schedule was futbol and nothing else. My life was surrounded by only soccer. I joined the school futbol team and my city team. I went to both practices. During lunch, I used to play futbol with…

Back against the wall I was ready to block a push. It was PE we were playing kickball and I was fifth in line to kick, and I was probably going to kick if it wasn't for this guy and his four friends. We just came back from the outfield and the kicking started good I had a good chance of kicking again since the first three people in line were still on base. Then a group of five people cut me. I didn't have a chance to kick again with five people ahead of me. I tried to get them to move but…

The Keeper Mal Peet wrote books best known for young adult fiction. His first novel was The Keeper, which is a novel under the categories of young adult fiction and sports fiction, took him three years to finish and was started when he was at the age of 52. The book is about one of the world’s greatest soccer goalies and how he got to where he is coming from a small, poor logging town. Mal Peet wrote The Keeper is such a unique way. It includes tension, mystery, and excitement. It’s memorable…

The idea to be athlete never interested me. I was couch potato that watched too many movies. Unfortunately, this led me to become overweight. That’s when I decided to try out for the only sports team in my middle school, basketball. Surprisingly I didn’t make the team. Later, in the year a soccer team was formed. I tried out for the team. I was selected for the team regardless that I didn’t know how to kick the ball in the right direction. Even though my team never won a game I knew that I…

Just like every other kid, I was put in many sports to find the one I loved and was passionate about. Although I did not like all the sports my parents put me in, soccer had a huge impact on me. As a little kid it was not as aggressive but I was always looking for competition. Being on a team so young I ended up making lifetime friends. When I got older I was involved in more sports such as volleyball and cross country. Being involved in sports had a mental and physical impact on me. Exercising…

It was my last high school game and we had made it to the play-offs. Winning this would mean making it one step closer to the High School Indoor Field Hockey Championship and playing another game. I knew that I had to play at the highest level I could to win, which meant excellent execution and communication with my team. Once the whistle blew and the clock was started, everything was on the move from the ball to the goalie to the fans. Polytech was our opponent and within the first few minutes…

After playing soccer for nearly my whole life and eventually playing competitively in high school, I have grown a passion for the sport. This is why I decided that I would take up coaching as a way to gain some experience in the world of sport management. Luckily, friend of mine asked me to help him as an assistant coach for the under-12 soccer team he was coaching in the Ormond Beach Soccer Club recreational department. I saw this is a great opportunity to gain some experience in coaching and…

High school kids everywhere are running around the field based on how here their coach tells them to go. Thy go into uniform and hit the football field. Every kid on there knows it's hard work and most believe this is a sport. This is marching band. Webster's dictionary defines a sport as “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” Marching band follows each of these aspects of what is the official…

In 2011, Hope Solo was on dancing with the stars and got knocked out in the semifinal round. Hope Solo is a representative of the Women’s Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King to advance the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity. Hope Solo joined national teammates Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach in running the Chicago Marathon in order to raise money for…