Freshly born into the track life , coaches placing me in races i clearly should not of been inI especially my first one. All i heard was, "RUNNERS TAKE YOUR MARK!" So nervous that my heart was pounding against my chest cavity , nearly exposing itself through my jersey. "SEEETTTT , POOOWWW!!" For a second my body not knowing how to react, but my mind telling me to run.
As soon as they were of age, Baird and his deaf siblings were enrolled in the Kansas School of the Deaf in Olathe, Kansas. It was actually the older sister that taught Baird sign language. Baird turned out to be the slowest of his peers in terms of athleticism albeit on an elementary level. For instance, during games, when team members were chosen, Baird was never chosen and if he were chosen, he would always be the last. What Baird could not accomplish athletically, he made up for in art.
We earned the number one seed in the section and were on our way to our goal. We got to our first game in sections against a much worse Truman/Martin Luther team. Nerves got to use in the first half and we were only up by ten points on a mediocre team. After our coach got on us during halftime, we came out in the second half and dominated the game winning 73-48. We had a great week of practice looking forward to the second game of the section playoff.
I have the longest days ever with college, lessons at the most awkward times, that leaves me with a 3 hour break everyday at college with nothing to do I prefer attending college the whole day,rather then going home and back to college, jumping up and down like a frog, staying put at college just makes my life the slightest easier. If only my day would melt away fast as snow there wouldn’t be a single
I can especially remember my forfeiting of the taekwondo class. I was a mere week from achieving the highest graded belt in the class, only to quit two years of hard work from laziness overcoming my kicks and punches. There I was helpless not going to go forward in almost anything. That was until a certain individual came along and changed what was to be my most desired fate. Haram Kang, a smart, but yet intimidating individual because of his incredible maturity was one of the most crucial cures to my disease.
After it was Over I got a SPARQ Rating of 45.90. This was in the 32nd percentile of all the athletes that we there the last year. And on the paper it says that I basically have less than a 2% chance to play on a D1 school on a scholarship. Now this made me sad for a moment and made me realize that I need to work a lot harder to make my achievement, so I used that as even better motivation to get bigger faster and stronger so the next time I take the test I’ll get an even better
I had lot of support making sure that I was not facing the difficulties or challenges alone. I had the chance of meeting the most wonderful young lady in my school, she have been the most supportive woman I could have ever meet in high school. She was there with me every single step of high school and getting all my school information organized the way they are supposed to be. With Ms. Francis help I learned a lot of skills that I never know I could have mastered in school at all. I am a person who love being in school that’s where my family lies, school have a lot of different people but the god ones are hard to fine.
That day we learned some routes and we ran through some of the routes and before I knew it practice was over. The next day I still was not getting the routes down. The coach ask me if I wanted to try another position and I said yes and they put me on defense to see if I could make a tackle. That day was the best. I was tackling players all over the field.
It seemed like none of my experience leading up to this point could help me. This was going to be the most grueling round of golf in my life. The doctor said that if I decide to play it will be some of the worst pain that I have ever experienced. How could I have not gone out to play that day, it was my senior year of high school and last tournament unless I play well and make it to state. My team needed me also; we were ranked eighth in the state and had a good chance at making it as a team.
Overall middle school was the worst two years of my life. It was the stage of immaturity, peer pressure, confusion and overprotection. I would do anything not to go back and just skip through everything because I became who I am now in the next five years of my life. Those two years were a waste of time because we all tried to be kids who were cool and hip, now realizing what really mattered. Being