Images were racing wild through my mind as I thought about my teammates going to battle without me. I had played with some of these guys since we were in eighth grade, and when they needed me the most, all I could do is sit and cheer. I hated the feeling of helplessness, but at the same time I knew I had to do what little I could do, well. It was two days until the first game of my junior year in high school football season. My team and I were going to play St. Rita, a battle we had persistently prepared for since the last game of our sophmore year.
All I wanted was to fit in better. When I entered high school, I decided to work on becoming more outgoing. I wanted people to see beyond just "the quiet boy." Every day I tried my new attitude by smiling and saying "hi" to other students. During my freshmen year, I finally build up enough confidence to join the football team.
Michael Barbuto College Writing October 2, 2013 Professor Eaton Descriptive Essay Last year playing high school football was probably one of the most entertaining and exciting things I have ever done in my entire life. The reasoning behind this is that we had an outstanding team which sent eighteen kids off to play college football. Therefore, eighteen out of twenty one people were sent off to play college football, which is pretty good in my eyes. When experiencing high school football, it is all about brotherhood and family throughout the whole entire team. This year playing football for Springfield is not the same as last year in high school because I’m not as close with the people on my college team.
Some of the most persuasive people in your life could very likely be your coaches. The coaches that I remember differed very much in there personalities. I played football and threw shot and discus in Junior high school. My two coaches for A team were very motivating. They never got frustrated with me.
Coach Carter’s Success Story Being successful is completing something you think that you can’t do, just like in the film, Coach Carter. Coach Carter taught the New Richmond Oilers and the viewer’s three main lessons, you can do whatever you set your mind to, school is more important than sports, and life is too short to do something that will bring you down. Success is huge in life. This film is about a man that got a job at Richmond High School as the new basketball coach. Coach Carter made the boys that were on the team sign a contract saying that they will attend all of their classes, sit in front of those classes, get at least a 2.3 GPA, and to wear something nice on the day of their games.
Caucasian coach Bill Yoast is being replaced by an African American coach Herman Boone. The community is furious; all the Caucasian players refuse to play for the new coach. Coach Yoast encourages his players to give Coach Boone a chance. Coach Yoast became defensive coach, and the players agreed to stay on the team. It came time for football camp.
Adrian Peterson also was nominated for the Heisman Trophy. The trophy presented to the best college football player of the year. Adrian finished second in the voting, the highest ever by a freshman. Adrian finished out the rest of his college career as one of the premier running backs although missing many games due to various injuries. Chris Johnson had a much quieter but still
My parents told me I had to choose either to play football or keep racing. It was a tough decision but I decided football was a better investment since I might have a chance to get my college schooling paid for by a scholarship. My sophomore and junior year I wasn’t that good of a player, not being the strongest or toughest. I knew my senior year was my time to shine but knew I had a lot of work to do. My best friend and I promised each other to train as hard as we could for 9 months to become the best.
Unfortunately I didn’t start as we had an experienced team, with only one more freshmen that made the varsity team. On the first game day, the unlucky sequence of events for the team gave me the chance to be the first freshmen starting goalkeeper in 5 years, as the starting goalkeeper sprained his wrist. From that day I did not give up the starting position, and was number one goalkeeper for my entire high school career. The regular season passed, and we were able to clutch the playoff spot against our arch rivals East Catholic. We had the great run, and ended up being the 10th seed.
Senior Year It was the fall of 1984; I was a senior in high school, this wasn’t a new school for me, I had attended this school for the last three years. Getting to school that morning proved to be very exciting, entering the doors at Hanau American High, this was going to be my last first day of school there. We were all excited to see each other, although we may have seen each other during the summer. This time I walked in with my head held high, I was a senior. We were going to rule the school, was going to be the best school year of my life.