Watching Kobe play basketball during the 2010 NBA playoffs made me want to try out for my high school basketball team. I decided that I was going to dedicate that summer to emulate Kobe. Just like Kobe, I was fueled to be the best. I had that same internal fire burning within me and the same drive that was going to propel me onto a varsity basketball roster. It is common knowledge that the fear of failure is what drives Kobe to his infinite pursuit of excellence.
At the time I was not really sure because I was afraid of not making the team. So when I got to the tenth grade I decided to try out for the junior varsity basketball team. Making the basketball team was a big obstacle in my life that I had to overcome. Before tryouts began, the coach recommended I go to workouts to get in shape. Basketball workouts lasted about two weeks.
Every day I woke up and rushed to school with the anticipation that my name would not be there. But for the first week of two, I managed to succeed. It wasn’t until a rainy Wednesday, two days from the final cut, that my name ceased to exist on the team roster. I was
The reason I am a Kinesiology major is because I want to study the field of coaching and teaching fitness to our youth within the public school system. The reason I choose coaching is because when I was growing up I would get into a lot of trouble as a kid. Coming from a single parent household, I needed to find a positive way out of trouble so I got into sports of all kinds. I played soccer, flag football, basketball, and baseball. The three sports I fell in love with the most was football, baseball, and basketball.
How did Coach Carter inspire his team to become both better players and people? Coach Carter was an inspiration coach to the Richmond high basketball team, he took a bunch of disrespectful, no good kids that were going no one in life and turned them into respectful young men that were now going somewhere in life. Couch Carter went to Richmond high school when he was a teenage and held record’s for basketball. He wanted to teach the boys that they could go somewhere in life if they study and go to classes and get good grades. Before couch carter took over the Richmond high basketball team they were shit.
Many people have many skills, some people get famous for the skills that they have or how they use them. Other people have really good skills but never really get the chance to show other people their skills. The skills that you are born with and the skills you live in life will determined basically what happens in the future. The skill that I have and was basically was born with, was that I am an extremely good listener. If someone wants to talk about something I will listen and I will try and help them out.
My view about the world totally changed with everything happened to me, I learned that nobody responsible about my life or my problems I am the only one in charge with what will happen to me. Also, do what I think is right to me not what the other people think. I also, learned to be patient with other people and put myself in their situation. For example, I am a teacher so I usually understand that any students could face a bad day or have trouble to move on I helped them and I tried to give them the chance to improve and motivated them as a teacher that I was in the same their situation and I faced the same
High school was rough for me in numerous ways. Basketball is my love coming second only to God and my family. My 9th grade year at Whitehaven, I tried out for my schools freshman basketball team. Sadly, however, I was not selected as a member of the team but with determination, hard-work, and a lot of prayer. I came back the next year and successfully
Never did I enjoy staying after school just to fill up grades I never wanted to fail. I had to work twice as hard as all the other students because I really wanted to go on to the next grade. What motivated me to keep
Before my grandfather was diagnosed, my family and I noticed small changes such as forgetting the placement of his personal items and having behavioral changes. We thought it was just “senior” symptoms or minor things and that he wanted our attention, because I was always busy with schoolwork and the varsity basketball team and my family was always busy with work. It was until my family and I had discovered that my grandfather had stopped exercising at the park for two weeks, constantly being easily irritated, being confused of his surrounding, such as staring off to space when we were asking him questions, and forgetting the placement of items, such as keys, that we realized that there was something wrong with him. Consequently, my dad made the earliest appointment possible for my grandfather to see his home doctor. After having the MRI and PET scans, the doctors also tested my grandfather across many domains such as memory, language, problem solving, and perceptual skills.