Ever since I was a child I’ve always dreamed of becoming a football player at the professional level or a collegiate football coach. As time passed, my dreams of becoming a professional football player faded with the thought of a new career path after graduation from high school. Upon graduation from high school, I decided that I would take forth a sacrifice for my country and enlist in the United States military. The year was 2005 and the United States was in the midst of a war on multiple fronts. My service to my country lasted for approximately eight years and ended in May of 2013. I had served in two deployments overseas during our time at war and looked at life in a new way. It wasn’t until joining the Manhattan Jaguars youth football program in 2012, that football would once again become a passion in my mind. After the 2012 …show more content…
Ohio University is one of the oldest coaching education programs in the United States and offers everything that I will need to achieve my short and long term goals as a football coach. My short-term goal includes being accepted into the program at Ohio University and to start a career changing philosophy as a football coach. My long-term goal is to complete my degree with Ohio University and to graduate with honors. I’ve taken great pride in my education and being a good student. When I was on the verge of receiving my Bachelor’s degree I learned a lot about time management and how to become a good a student. During my degree program I was working full-time as a finance manager at a local business in Milwaukee, working as an offensive coordinator at a local high school, a volunteer coach with Beloit College on the weekends while maintaining the needs of my wife and two kids. It took a lot of hard work and dedication but I managed to pull through the stresses and time restrictions with a 3.2 GPA at Troy
Serving the United States Military comes with many responsibilities as well as pressure and accountability. However, the military isn’t for everyone, but it offers so much for those who serve. One thing that must be known and dealt with is that this career could be a life threatening one, and there are many obstacles one must go through beforehand.
I have a dream in life that I want to accomplish when I grow up. Truly an NFL player since I was young child watching my favorite team play on football days. The team that I’ve always watched in my childhood team The Dallas Cowboys. I want to become an NFL player for The Dallas Cowboys. That is a big dream of mine to become an NFL player for The Dallas Cowboys. Playing with my heroes Dak, Zeke, Witten, and Dez is a life dream. Dreaming to become an NFL player one day. There’s a quote that I always read on my wall.
From a very young age, I have loved being involved in sport and fitness. My earliest memories all involve me running around with a ball or a bat of some kind either in my hand or at my feet. My love for physical activity has remained and since then, I have becoming increasingly interested in coaching and the more theoretical side of sport. This has inspired me to pursue a career in physical education and coaching.
I am in Scholastic Scrimmage, which has been one of the most rewarding clubs I have been a part of and I have been captain of Varsity Scholastic Scrimmage during 11th and 12th grades. This year (12th grade) is the first year the team is going to EPC playoffs in over four years.
Football isn’t just about going on the field and playing 4 quarters against another team every week. It’s not just those Friday nights going to watch your high school team play. Football is a brotherhood, it’s your second family. It’s making memories that you will have with you for the rest of your life. It’s the hours of preparation, sweat, tears, blood, bumps and bruises and going back out everyday just to give it your all. Football isn’t just a game that i’ve played it’s something that has shaped me into the person I am today.
Nothing means more to me than spending quality time on Sundays with my family, sitting on the couch and watching football. Even as a young kid, before I knew the names of the teams my Dad would say, “We’re rooting for the blue team!” I had no idea what was going on but I was so interested by the game that I would cheer and yell whenever my Dad would. This natural attention to this great game gave me the desire to prepare myself to eventually join a team. I learned how to motivate myself to workout, study plays and annoy my Dad enough to throw a ball with me in the backyard. I felt it was my purpose in life to become a professional and play football as
Once again a preseason of hard work led to a season where I could not start a single game in the season. However, because I had learned to work even harder than I had before, I saw much more playing time, playing in seven of our twelve games, including one playoff game, and I had found a spot playing on special teams. I also was able to make a few tackles, and our team improved, as we went from a team that won less than half of our games, to a team that had one regular season loss, and lost in the championship. In my junior season, I started to get much better, in many ways due to the fact that the offensive line coach on Varsity was better than that of JV. However, the playing time that I received only slightly improved, because I was hampered by being stuck behind one of the best offensive linemen in school history. He won all-state, all-league, all-section 1, and lineman of the year in our league. So again, I failed to get into the starting lineup, but I knew that I was very close to making
So I was basically on my own. I edited a highlight real, sent it out, and began to try to get in contact with coaches. I had been quite successful in high school, earning All-State awards for both offence and defense, but had no idea how I would compare to football players at the collegiate level. I would come to find out that I was very behind in the recruiting process. Most school had already handed out scholarships and the ones who hadn’t were not interested in me. With no offers, I was very discouraged and felt like giving up on the thought of playing in college. But rather than give up, I branched out and began to try to get in contact with schools out of state. I looked as far away as Montana, to Connecticut, to California. I truly had nothing to lose in my pursuit of my dream. I began to focus more on California schools, because of how much I loved California.
Many things changed after joining football. By joining the football team it taught me never to give up. When I messed up on something the coaches would always push me to do better. Every day I got better than the day before.
When I was deciding what I wanted to choose for my major, I thought about things that I love doing. One thing in life that I have passion for is sports, whether it be playing sports or helping others develop their skills for their sport. My long term goal for a career, I want to be an Athletic Director for a college. In order to become an Athletic Director there are certain step that someone needs to do in college to try and have the best chance at getting their dream job. Athletic Director is not a career that a person just graduated from college and gets hired by a school, they must work their way up from an entry level job and slowly moves their way up.
Many high school students identify themselves as either the nerd, the jock, or the rebel, while some students did not embrace their label, I did. I accepted my label as the so called “jock” for one main reason, leadership. Being the captain of the football team as well as the baseball team put a target on my head as someone to follow, look up to, and guide others in times of hardships and adversity.
For a lot of kids, it’s not until it’s all said and done, and they look back on it several years later, that they realize the difference the sport made in their lives. They are proud of playing the game. Have you ever met anybody who accomplished playing four years of high school football, and at the end of that run said, ‘Man, I wish I wouldn’t have played’? It doesn’t get said. Football players aren’t perfect. Nobody is. But millions of former players, one by one, can recount the life-altering principles they learned from football. They know the value of football is the values in football.That’s why high school football – and particularly high school coaches – play such a vital role in our society. Our football coaches are on the front lines of the battle for the hearts and minds of the boys in our society.
It all started when I was about three years old when my good friend Anthony Williams and I became friends when he ran his bike into my sand box. Football has been an event in my life since I was three years old and it still is today. “The key to life is not what life gives to you but what you take from life. It’s not how life treats you but how you treat life. You have a choice in life. You can either thrive or survive.”_ Coach London. Football has made me into the person I am today, hard working, and determined.
My passion for the game of football went undiscovered until my senior year. I’ve played football for as long as I can remember. From playing flag football in third and fourth grade all the way up to my senior year of highschool, it has always been a part of my life. I always found myself doing something football-related, whether it be playing it with friends, watching it on TV, or playing it on the PlayStation. To me, football is a way of bonding with friends and family. This sport brings you closer as a team, and it’s a way of making memories and friendships that will last a lifetime.
Dating back to my early childhood; football at the time was my only love. I breathed, slept and ate football. It started off as just a friendly hobby around my neighborhood up until my tenth-birthday when I joined a little league football team. Over the years I continued to play, it got even more exciting for me when my friends from the neighborhood start joining the team as well. Things suddenly changed for me moving forward into my high school career. Although this was once a fun stress reliever it was becoming the only thing that stressed me out.