Showing grit is a common thing for all people in sports, but one that has really stuck to me was middle school football to now. When seventh grade football started, Coach was looking at kids for certain positions and he said my name first. I instantly perked up ready to get any position on the team, but when he said I was playing second team center I was crushed. I never played on the line before. I was tall and skinny, not big and bulky.
When I partially tore my ACL I had to show grit not to give up playing football. It was during warmups for a football game in 7th grade. The offense was all lined up with me as an outside receivor with Derrick on the inside. When Nick hiked the ball I raced to the cornerback ,who happened to be Ethan Goodwin, and started blocking him. Then the whistle blew so I looked over at Nick to see what happened and realized that that he had just thrown the ball.
We took control of the game very quickly and scored in the first three minutes of the game. I was playing right wing which allows me to play both offense and defense. As I was chasing down the ball, an opposing player kicked the ball full force into my face. It knocked me off my feet and I hit the ground hard. I was dazed for a second, but I jumped back up and got back in the game.
When I limped back on defense, I forgot to hide my injury. When I walked passed the ref, I whispered, “This stupid hairline ref doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” He either ignored me or didn’t hear me.
They ran the ball to my side of the field, and I made a tackle that resulted in a fumble that led to us scoring. The crowd in the stadium were ecstatic, I had people calling my name from the stands. I was happy at the time, but knew it was to be short lived, because the game wasn’t over. Their was still enough time on the clock for them to tie the game back up. I was almost proven
Last fall my aunt had eight baseball tickets and she said to my mom “ I have eight baseball tickets and I wanted to know if Kailei and Ronnie want to go.” Mom said “ I’ll ask.” My dad came and asked me“ Do you want to go to a basketball game?” I said “Yes.” When we went to go get the tickets they where actually baseball tickets, but I didn’t care.
The player was out cold, I had knocked him out and gave him a concussion. It may not seem all that bad but I gave the best running back on our team a concussion. I realized that my emotions really blocked my judgement on how hard I should’ve hit him since it was only practice against teammates.
Bein stupid you will never guess what i did. I jumped from top bunk of the bed, that they all called a castle, which to me is pretty lame consider one was a horse and one was invisible. As I caught air i spread my arms and pretended to fly. I really did it, they couldn't believe their eyes it was amazing. Sik that didn't really happen, that would have been a good story if i had happened.
We were losing, so I gave an inspirational speech about one of the greatest that played for notre dame. I told my team what his last words were before he died but no one really believed me but we came back out and we won the game. I changed the game of football by introducing new strategies and techniques.
Slender Man told me to do it. Two 12 year old girls from Wisconsin stabbed her friend 19 times in the woods then left there, she crawled to the road and someone called the police when they saw her. When the police asked them why they did it, they just said Slender Man told me to. Those girls are now in jail and even though their story seemed ridiculous, they still stick with it today.
Our athletic director got wind and personally drove and picked me up and dropped me off at the site with the rest of my team. It was incredible to see someone go that far out of their way for some scrawny little sophomore who might have gotten moved up to varsity a little too soon. But, I wasn’t the only one would could tell a story similar to that one. That man instilled the passion inside me to try to be close to the man he
This year I signed up to go to Feed My Starving Children thinking i’ll get more volunteer hours for the senior Medallion thingy whatever it was called. When I went to the place for Feed My Starving Children, I also went with most of my AVID class. When we got there and walked into the place we had to put on hair nets that were so irritating and most of the girls laughing and complaining about their hair. We also had to take off all the jewelry which i had on, i laughed and said to myself hecky no, all these earring in my ear were staying on. I’m not about to take them out just to loose them later so i hid my ears under the hair net.
My eighth-grade year, I tried out for the school’s co-ed soccer team and was confident that I would make the team. During the three hard days of try-outs, I pushed myself to improve each day and received several compliments from the coaches. On the last day, the head coach pulled me aside to tell me
My ACL Tear Journey At The Hospital A quick turn on a soccer field led me to the worst experience in my life. A while back in my sophomore year I tore my ACL while I was practicing for my first soccer game of the school year. I made a quick turn without positioning my feet correctly on the ground. I thought that I broke my knee, but I never knew that after that day I would have experienced the worst day a month after on February 15th.
All the students were in the cafeteria and eating their lunch. A table of boys pulled out Cheez-Its and started to crush them in their hands. All the people around them were asking them to stop, but they didn’t, so I got up and walked over to their table to ask them directly to stop. They looked at me and laughed. The nerves they have!!
