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High School Athletic Career

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Being an athlete takes raw talent, drive and time management in a busy life. Throughout my career as an athlete at Sutton Memorial high school I have participated in some of the most demanding sports including cross country indoor and outdoor track. Being on these teams for over six years I have had the honor of seeing legends rise and fall. Athletics are important but academics are still crucial to my future, and my secondary education. I have recently been accepted and admitted to Bryant university to enroll in their accounting/ CPA program to complete my interests in business and enable my future career as an accountant.

As my high school athletic career comes to an end and I look back at past seasons of cross country and track I feel privileged and blessed to be a part of the sutton community. Cross country to me was a way of reliving stress after a long day of school and …show more content…

Throughout my career I have received many medals including those from the MSTCA coaches invitational held at the wrentham fair grounds. Participating at invitationals like this or competing at districts and dvc has meant the world to me. I have also received numerous plaques and achievements during my later years at the athletic banquets including most improved, rookie of the year and the coaches award. As my Sutton cross country season comes to an end each day I look forward to the possibility of participating on the bryant team. Indoor and outdoor track may be similar to some but to me they are as different as soccer and basketball. I have been on the indoor and outdoor track teams at sutton since seventh grade. Being around a varsity sport for so long has allowed me to see the greats pass through the halls of this school and has allowed me to become one as well. During my junior and senior year I became captain of both the indoor and outdoor track teams leading them to many DVC

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