A Short Introduction
A short Introduction
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| Senior soccer season team photo |
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For me, in particular, I have always found it tough to put into words how I feel. Yet, when asked what is important to me, the answer has remained the same since I was 3. One the most important aspects of my life is sports. By the age of five I was a competitive swimmer, I played soccer, tennis and little league softball. Since then I have tried different sports but at the age of 11 I decided upon the three sports of soccer, basketball and softball. At the age of 11 I walked into my first tryout for soccer for my first middle school team ever. I made the team and that was the start of a new beginning.
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Team photo of the travel
softball team. This team
practices year round and we
compete in the summer.
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Simple accomplishments as starting a game, scoring a goal, scoring multiple points or making a nice play were small things that I worked hard to complete. As a freshman in high school, I started in all three sports at the varsity level and received a divisional athletic award which are both huge accomplishments.
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At the end of my high school career, I was a 12 season varsity starter with a total of 6 athletic awards including an All-State award in softball. I was also a three sport captain, with being captain in softball since my sophomore year and the recipient of the Athlete of the Year for my school during my senior year. Now as a freshman in college I have had the opportunity to play softball at the collegiate level.
From an outside perspective, all the accomplishments I completed may be seen as small and something that is not life impacting. Yet, I have met some of best friends that I will keep for the rest of my life. I have had the opportunity to learn important life lessons such as the benefit of hard-work, working with others, sharing, and learning to rely and trust the people around you. Sports have taught me to be a leader even when the going gets tough.
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While being a three sport athlete in high school, I created a mentor mentee program where a senior, who had to meet certain requirements, was placed in a freshman classroom to help. The senior would not complete the work but instead help students in the class. Throughout my high school experience, I realized that sitting in a classroom as a student you are an active variable in the experiment of public school education. Although I was grateful to attend a school where supplies were always provided and I was given more opportunities beyond the norm. There were still active problems that restricted some students from growing and flourishing as there fellow classmates were. Even though I was a student, the freshman students looked to me as a mentor that could help in the classroom and in life, as a teacher does. I grew an incredibly close connection with the teacher in the class as she helped grow and develop skills that a teacher may need later on. I would work with students who struggled to understand concepts they were learning in class ether after school, during school or in class. I recognized that the debate of Equality vs. Equity first hand as I watched certain students were unable to comprehend the lecture and they needed an extra explanation for them to understand. This mentor program convinced me to become a teacher as a simple actions from students moved me. For example, Student A was struggling at the beginning of the year and on the last day of class she walked up to me and said, "thank you for being patient and thank you for helping". Those words were not asked to be said and they came from the heart. I hope to make an impact on more students some day when I become a teacher.
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