Why Do I Get My Sophomore Year

My grades were going down beacuse I always got home late from practice. I was so occupied with baseball that I never focused at school. “How can you play if you can’t focus during scool.” This time, my dad said it in a depressed way while walking out of my room. He got tired of raising hs voice. I looked at myself in the mirror and promised to fix myself, day by day, to become an example of being a student athlete. The following day, I took a lot of notes, asked questions, worked with my teachers after school when I needed help, and I never fell asleep before completing all of my homework. Things immediately picked up with my grades and baseball. I still carry out these habits until now. With all the hardships that I have been going throughout my highschool career, my work ethic is still strong. I continue my endeavors to become a star student and an outstanding baseball player, even if my schedule is full. As people had brought me down in the past, I am now grateful of their opinions. I was able to stop slacking on what’s important. I learned that life has given me obstacles so that I would be the prime example of what I promised myself to

“Work with your head not your back, stay in school or you’ll end up like me” my father tells me that time and time again. Even to this day I still hear those exact words ringing in my ears. Hard work to me means to putting your all and finishing what you started. My idol Michael Jordan has failed a plethora of times. Jordan was trusted to take the game winning shot and missed 26 times, yet he continued to work and improve. But his hard work on and off the court has paid off with him, winning 6 rings and plenty of MVP awards. I’m not by any means comparing my freshman science class efforts to Michael Jordan’s 1,000 shots a day without missing a single shot, but the effort to make the best and do your best in any situation is there. To work hard is one of the most essential values anyone can have. No one likes a slacker and hard work always pays off in the end.

If you don’t have descent grades throughout high school, life is going to be tough down the road. I believe the same thing with sports too: always try your best and practice frequently to get better. When I first started playing baseball I was terrible, but over time I got better and better and I thank all the coaches who mentored me along the way and taught me some important lessons. Every pitch or at-bat I tried to improve the most I can and I’ve really succeded with sports throughout my life.

My senior year is so trash but it started being trash like last year so. First trash thing I moved so I had to leave all the people I enjoyed being around. I knew these people weren't my forever friends but the time we had together was great. I lost things like being in the yearbook and my lettermen. I feel like I didn't enjoy my year because everything I wanted was gone at once. Everything I had planned had to change and the people around me that grew up with in school I wouldn't talk too much anymore. Jefferson has plenty of kids who are stuck up and they hate people from winder so yes perfect. I'd rather have been home schooled and look and my parents face all day. So no this wasn't like in the movies this actually sucks and I'm so very

Staying up late to finish up an essay, or studying late at night after a long day of a physical and mental beat down, is pushed through with determination. Sports taught me determination, and it comes with work ethic. Being a student athlete also gave me leadership qualities both in the classroom and on the field. No where in the classroom will I be put into situations where quick decisions must be made and consequences are waiting to follow. The discipline that is required to be successful at a sport has only strengthened me in every aspect of my life. The discipline through sports has taught me to respect everyone, be coachable, and not to sell myself short. Everything learned through sports gives you a big advantage in school as well. For many of us, if it wasn't for sports, we wouldn't still be in school working this hard. Being a student athlete helps prepare you to catch anything life throws at you, and to handle it very well. Gold medal olympian Bob Richards stated that "One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top". Sports has taken me farther in life and school than I believe I could’ve taken

Junior year was full of many new experiences. We were now classified as upper classmen! Just like any of the other years in high school this year had just as many ups and downs. One of the main stresses in eleventh grade was the SAT. For sure one of the scariest things that I have ever had to do. All of the preparation going into it and the amount of studying made me feel as if I wasn’t going to have a brain by the time the testing was over. I took college and career readiness, which really helped prepare me for what was to come. By this time in high school I had already had my job for a little over a month, so I already knew what to expect once school started. I am thankful enough that at my job you get to leave at seven because I hear many

When I was four, I went to a daycare and we always played sports and had games. Unfortunately, I was a kid who always got picked last. As a four year old this was upsetting,. So I took it upon myself to tell my mom I wanted to play sports with a team. I wanted to play every sport possible so I started with four of them; basketball, softball, cheerleading, and bowling. Through the years bowling turned into soccer, soccer turned into football, so on and so on. Eventually I ended up sticking to three sports; basketball, softball, and cheerleading, but I played on multiple teams. When I got to highschool, I decided that I wanted to play volleyball. I ended up starting Varsity with no experience in the sport. Throughout my journey of being an athlete, multiple people told me I wasn’t going to make it in life or that I’m “trash.” This pushed me to want to become the best athlete that I could be. To this day, if it wasn’t for me always getting picked last when we played games, I wouldn’t be starting three varsity sports, I wouldn’t have offers to colleges, and I wouldn’t be where I am today. The past surely does affect how the present plays

During my third year on the Varsity team my coach decided to pull me out of the competitive team because my skills were not up to par. Devastated by the fact that I had competed every year since I started and not that year, I vowed that I was going to prove her wrong, show her the mistake she made. I put in numerous hours into working on my skills, I would work until my knees, ankles, back and wrists couldn’t take it anymore. In just a matter of weeks I showed her up and I was back on the competitive team. Therefore, if I hadn’t pushed myself I wouldn’t have competed just like if I don’t push myself in life I’ll never get to where

We were determined to improve as much as we could during the off-season and come back better than ever. The very next week each of us went to Lifetime Fitness and got a membership. This was new for us because none of us had ever been a member at a gym. We would only play basketball during practices or occasionally at a park. Three times a week, we went to the gym and played basketball for at least 2 hours. We were clearly getting better and enjoyed doing it. I saw this and decided to apply this type of work ethic to my everyday life, specifically my school work. I would spend more time on my homework and I began studying for tests, something that was very foreign to me. Overtime, my grades got better and I was enjoying school. I had fun at school and looked forward to playing basketball after. This type of work ethic was good and I would have loved to have it when I first started playing

It was my senior year of high school football and all I could do was sit on the bench with an injury. It was so frustrating because all I wanted to do was be on the field playing with my brothers like I have since freshman year. I was just so happy to be on the field on those Friday nights and just get to play the game made me so happy when I first started playing. Until I got a big head and started thinking about myself and what I was going do that game or how many touchdowns I was going to score that game. I stopped thinking about the team because of my success. I think this might be a lesson I needed to learn and if I did not, I would have had a big head my whole senior year and never would have saw the real reasons why I loved playing

A senior linebacker I had been playing behind acted as a mentor and helped me with whatever I struggled with. Everything was different on varsity: practices were stricter, games were more competitive, and everyone wanted a starting spot desperately. After my injury I came to practice and tried to support my team and do anything I could to make them better. However, every second I stood on that sideline was a second I prayed I could still be playing. This sense of emptiness fueled me to work harder at everything I did. I hit the weight room as much as I could so I would be less behind in my next season, I started running as soon as my doctor allowed me, and I kept my grades up and studied to set a good example for my team and ensure I would have no problems next

There has been times of me falling behind in school because of my dedication to athletics. I did not continue to do athletics in college by choice. I had been through so much behind sports that I just wanted to be finally be a normal student. Sports have had such a major impact on my life. It has had some positive some negative. I love sports even to the point in which I am not still playing but I choose to pursue a career in this field.

This is where things started to change for me, I finally had something to motivate me through school, and it worked for the long run. For the next two years in that school, I started to try and study for all my classes, I trained and lifted weights to make myself better. Eventually, with all of this work and dedication I began to excel academically and athletically, as a result, I was the starting middle linebacker for the team and I went from an average student to one of the top students in my class. On the other hand, football season was over, we had two very good seasons, but it was time to decide where I wanted to go from

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson. I'm a firm believer in this statement as wise sounding as it is because I've found it to be true on multiple occasions. In life academically, athletically as well as personally it seems that there is no problem that cannot be fixed without hard work, The “luck” that Jefferson is referring to is the rewards for working hard and that is relatable through the good grades, the wins in games, as well as personal fulfillment in life. In the beginning of the year taking multiple advanced classes as well as participating in varsity sports was overwhelming however i eventually became accustomed to it and it was only a matter of time until i excelled.

There are many problems I have in my life but the most important problem I am facing is trying to graduate while being pregnant. Yes I understand that most people would think that my life has made a turn for the worst but me I feel like everything happens for a reason although I did not plan this whatsoever I still have to do what I have to do to provide a supportive life for me and my new edition. This is my senior year and some may say this should be the easiest year but for me it is the most important year. I have to make sure I stay on track with my gpa, my grades, my credits, etc. Having a baby at my age does not make that easier. I have doctor’s appointments during school hours since our school gets out so late so it’s hard for me not