How Hockey Influenced Me

What is something that has influenced your life? Who is someone that has influenced your life? Most people say that their parents or guardian has the biggest influence on them. Some people will say that a random celebrity they look up to has the biggest influence on them. Hopefully these influences are positive. Influences play a major factor on people. People on average usually have many influences. For me, the people that influence me the most are my parents. Something else that has a big influence on me is hockey, and that is what I’m going to talk about here. Around fourth grade, I stopped playing football. I wasn’t the best player, I got knocked around a lot, and I never got playing time. I was a kid that loved to play a sport so I wanted to play something else. One day, I was introduced to a professional ice hockey player by one of my elementary school teachers. His name was RJ Umberger. RJ Umberger was the main person that influenced me to play competitive ice hockey. RJ Umberger is a professional ice hockey player that was born and raised in Plum Borough. Main points are that I got to watch him play, in 2008, against the
Hockey has influenced me to be more social, healthy, and clear stress. Not to mention that hockey helps me exercise my ability to visualize, of which I will use in my career. Everybody has influences, good and bad. I am
Nolker 5 definitely happy that hockey has those influences on me. Occasionally I ask myself, what would my life be like if I never played hockey at a competitive level? Without hockey, I would probably be in less of shape that I am today. I probably would have stuck to baseball, which was another sport I played when I was younger. My grades over the years might be slightly better because hockey took up a lot of my time during the school years. I definitely wouldn’t have as many friends as I do now. In general, I would be a different person if I never played