I love the thrill of ever game, every week, every season making an impact and actually having meaning and purpose. Utah, Boise State, and all of you other mid major conferences quit whining and man up. The way you do that is strengthen your schedule and stop playing an unimportant season. I have always loved the Cinderella story, but not to the point of jeopardizing the character of the college football nation. Until there is a playoff structure, the anticipation of the top 25 every year will keep me running wild with emotions of anger and thrills.
In the end to show my coaches before my season of my senior year that I was ready to play with the big dogs I showed my hard work. I was the top performer out of all of the team of 65 players. It was a combination of three lifts that consisted in max squat, max bench press, and a max hang clean. I squat 550 lbs, bench 320 lbs. and hang cleaned 240 lbs.
My schedule consisted of waking up early every day and taking a 1.5 mile run, followed by taking 500 jump shots, a similar exercise Kobe performed during his high school career. Conquering the fear of failure became an imaginary bond between Kobe and I. I knew that working hard all summer honed my physical and mental edge on the court. When tryouts came around, the odds were against me, as the team roster had been established, but I did my best Kobe impersonation and played harder than anyone else on the court. I made the team because just like Kobe, I wasn’t going to fail. This experience taught me to have fortitude, and to always strive for my dreams.
The story of Todd Marinovich is very interesting. It starts, however, with his father, Marv. Marv was a former USC football player who went on to not only play in the NFL for the Oakland Raiders, but also become one of the first true professional strength and conditioning coaches. He raised his son, Todd, to be a professional athlete from day one. The two trained together every day, and while kids went with their families on vacations over summer, they just trained even more.
Coach Harbaugh has been extremely effective in coaching on and off the field. He arouses players like Ray Lewis to emulate the same type of leadership style in the locker room and other places that coaches are not able to be at times. Ray Lewis is the defensive leader of the Baltimore Ravens. He plays the middle line backer position. We have witnessed Ray Lewis’ transformational leadership style every Sunday for the past 5 years.
I have over 12.5 hours of community service and will be achieving my goal of 20 hours. I also had a very nice power point for my mid year presentation. From the comment slips I gathered a lot of useful information, which has helped me to plan the next steps of my eighth grade challenge. For my eighth grade challenge I have learned a lot about Unified Sports. I have gone to several Williston Unified Sports team meetings.
Cross Country Not many people know what a 5k or cross country is. To sum it up it’s a 3.2 mile run threw just about every terrain imaginable. It’s a race of endurance and mental strength, and anyone who is competitive would love cross country just as much as I do. I started cross country in the 7th grade and placed in varsity all the way threw 12th grade and it wasn’t a easy ride, I couldn’t even count how many 5k’s I ran but my very first 5k will always be in my mind till the day I die. As a middle school runner I mainly ran 3ks which was ran on the same course as high school but was only 1.8 miles.
I love sports and I love the feeling of helping people when they were hurt. So the next two year of high school I took on some more duties. I helped with football, basketball, and soccer. My last year of high school was the best and that is because I got to go with the junior varsity football team by myself and I got to tape all of the players. In high school I got to meet many of people that were with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (F.C.A) and every Thursday morning at school they would be in our library for the ones that wanted to come.
During physical training, I gain strength and learn more about how to maintain healthy lifestyles. It also teaches me about proper diets as well. JROTC help me feel better about myself both physical and mentally. In conclusion, JROTC teaches me how lead and cooperates with others, builds self-esteem, teaches of healthy lifestyles. Now in my third year in JROTC, I realize that JROTC taught me a valuable and lifelong skill that I may use
I replied back, “don’t worry, I’ll be careful, I promise”. The next week I was on the Monroe Monarchs Track Team. Mr. Slattery just so happened to be the track coach, so I was even more enthusiastic than ever. The fourth grade track team consisted of four teammates, Me, Jeff Stout, Lamar Taylor and Eric Bradley. We ran the four hundred meter relay and the one hundred meter dash.