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Personal Narrative: My Trip To Missouri Western State University

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The Decision My decision to forgo my scholarships for other schools and instead come to Missouri Western State University was due to the coaches making it feel like a second home to me. The atmosphere of the college, the cost was a huge factor and when I met all of the players, it is what drew me to MWSU the most, they all welcomed me as one of their football brothers and really persuaded me to attend school here. As I walked into the indoor sports complex I instantly thought to myself that compared to the other colleges I visited it was the coaching staff and the facilities which helped me make my decision to come to Missouri Western. I visited many other colleges that had offered me scholarships, but nothing quite came close to Missouri …show more content…

Coach Partridge was the first of them I met, he is the head coach of Missouri Western and as soon as I shook his hand I knew he wasn’t a coach that was accustomed to losing. He greeted me with a big smile on his face and we went into his main office and sat down and talked to me about the tradition of the Griffons. What drew me in the most was that he was more about academics than anything and that is what I always wanted from a coach, I wanted a coach that would push me to work in the classroom before I was able to lay one single toe on the football field. I also met Coach Trotter, he was the coach for the defensive backs. Since the first time we had met he welcomed me with open arms. He introduced me to the rest of the defensive backs that I would be playing with and they brought me in as one of their football brothers and I knew from there on they would always have my back and I would always have theirs. As I finally met the last of the coaching staff, Coach Partridge had me follow him to the indoor sports facility, also known as the gisc. As I walked onto the turf, I just thought to myself “This is definitely where I want to play football at.” As I met all of the coaches and talked to the players that I would be playing with, they all just made it feel like home to me. They made me feel like I actually mattered unlike the other coaches that just wanted me for my playing ability and could care

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