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My Favorite Mistake: My Story Of An Athlete

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Favorite Mistake To most athletes, an injury is something they don’t even think about until it happens. Sometimes it could mean missing a couple plays or a whole season. Either way, injuries are something that usually does not bring joy to athletes and those around them. This is where my story is unique. In my athletic career leading up to my freshman year, I had been a fairly healthy kid from an injury standpoint. I could never have guessed that one of the worst injuries an athlete can go through would happen to me. I blew out my left knee. It was early June. My eight grade year came to an end and I had one thing on my mind, even though I was just a freshman, and that was varsity football. Our middle school team had been the most successful team that our school had ever had and we hoped to …show more content…

I went for defensive line, but the coaches wanted everyone to do both offense and defense. I would be a fullback on offense so I went with the running backs. The coaches set up stations and my first station was running through a rope ladder. This specific ladder was different than the one that the school used to have. This particular one was about two feet in the air. I went through the ropes and did the specific footwork that the coaches wanted to see. It was the second to last rep of going through and I was up. I was almost all the way through when I felt my right ankle turn in, and to catch myself I stuck out my left leg. Wrong choice. I should've just let myself fall and sprain my ankle. Instead when I caught myself my left knee hyperextended and caved in at the same time. I then fell and my whole left leg was numb. I will never forget the feeling I felt when my knee was just gone. I later found out that my knee was pretty much gone and my entire freshman year would have nothing to do with playing

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