Personal Narrative: Football After High School

As I stood there in the huddle after practice breathing heavily with sweat dripping from my body I listened as Coach Hegsted gave one of his motivational talks. He was talking about how we have no reason to hold anything back or wait for someone else to get the job done. As I stood there, with coach’s voice in the back ground, I thought to myself he is right this is probably going to be the last time I pad up with this group of guys and play with them. It was this day that I had learned a very valuable life lesson that I had never thought of before. I had played football every single year that I possibly could starting with that NYFL league in elementary. When I was playing all those years the same thing kept happening; telling myself that I could be better next year or we as a team could be better next year. Now it being senior year I can’t say “oh we’ll be better next year” because there is no more “next year” for most of us in the senior class. When coach had said those things after practice it was a slap in the face I need to wake up and get after it. When he had said this he was not only talking about football he was talking about baseball, school, life, or whatever you are going to do after high school. I haven’t started my senior year of baseball yet but having this new

I’m also sad for that day to come when I won’t see some of my many friends again. Some my closest friends, Brentyn and Colton, have big plans for after high school just like I do but I hope that we keep in touch and hang out whenever we can. Because us three have a blast together throughout high school. From late nights working on each other’s vehicles, to late nights hanging out being teenagers. I will definitely miss those days and thinking back to what Coach Hegsted said make the most out of the time that I have left with them in high