Surrounding Research Paper

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Surroundings As long as I can remember I wanted to be a star athlete, you see my dad played football from pee-wee to collage. This inevitably led me to make the biggest mistake of my life, and with that kind of surrounding being an athlete was highly recommended in my house. When I was three it was baseball, when I was seven it was soccer. In the third grade football was my passion, and it carried with me throughout my first two years of high school. When I was in the middle of my eighth grade year one of the coaches came up to me in P.e and suggested that I try out for the high school football team, he said I had the highest vertical and fastest thirty yard sprint. And that summer I was in pads starting two a…show more content…
I was about three blocks away from home when I saw a girl fall and drop her bag, I ran across the street to help her and make sure she was not hurt. She said her name was Katie and she was on her way to practice, I asked what she was playing and she told me hockey. I was a little taken back at first. I had never seen a female hockey player, at least such a beautiful one. She asked if I wanted to go check out her practice, I told her sure I didn’t even know we had a hockey team. She laughed and said “we don’t.”, she belonged to a metroplex select team. We went to what looked like an old factory that had water sprayed to make ice, but she assured me that it was a professional hockey rink. She asked if I had ever ice skated before, to which I told her no she asked what size shoe I wore and gave me a pair of skates. I asked will your coach be ok with me skating while y’all practice; she told me that her practice wouldn’t start till later. I put the skates on and stood up, she told me to act like I was running then try to glide on the ground. To everyone in attendance’s astonishment I could maneuver like the rest of

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