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Personal Narrative: Pursuing Soccer As A Profession

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For the last year or so, I have felt trapped. Doing something that you do not want to do day in and day out is everyone’s worst nightmare. I use to think that pursuing soccer, as a profession was my calling on this earth. To think that something I dreamed of doing for years is now something that makes me unhappy, has made me realize what is truly important to me in life. I want to be able to identify as something other than my athletic successes.

I have played soccer since I was six years old. I have loved soccer more than anything, and thought that one day I would go professional. My junior year of high school, when USF contacted me and offered me a scholarship to their institution to play soccer, it was the best day of my life- or at least

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