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High School Football: A Leadership Experience

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One leadership experience I had was through my athletics at my high school. Every year, our high school volleyball program hosts a camp for young girls to come learn and develop her volleyball skills, as well as do arts and crafts and make new friends. As a varsity player, we all were assigned a different group of girls to be in charge of. We also were given a junior varsity player to help us. I became a leader in this area because I was more experinced and organized. As our success as a volleyball program continued so did the number of girls that attended our camps. My senior year we had one hundred-fifty girls sign up for camp. This left each varsity player in charge of at least thirteen girls. While this was overwhelling at times, the girls

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