Throughout high school, my life has been consumed by sports. Being a student athlete has made me become the person I am today. Ever since I was sixteen, I have also worked at a daycare in town, TASK. This has showed me how much little kids look up to student athletes. Working at TASK has also showed me how much these little kids want to grow up and be like us student athletes. Without sports and working at the daycare, I would not be the role model I am today. Since working at the daycare, I have realized I want to be the person little girls are talking about when they say, “I want to grow up and be just like her.” Being chosen team captain has made me into the leader I am. I have learned how to push my teammates…
Wrestling is tough, it is a sport much from its participants, but if one has the courage to step out on the mat dressed in a uniform that leaves a little imagination and challenge another human to a match to see who the better man is. Danger can be found in every sport, and wrestling are no more prone to injury’s to soccer, football, track stars, lacrosse. Wrestling creates a sense of accountable for one’s actions. Those that work hard, succeed. There is no one to hide behind; every flaw and mistake is brought forth in a match. It takes a great deal of mental toughness and sacrifice nights with friends for extra practice and consideration, favorite food to lose the extra pound, and sleep when one needs to wake up at 4am to go for a run before school begins. That competitive nature of clashing with another human being creates a sense of community within the wrestling world. Those that have never participated in the sport have a tough time understanding this. Opponents’ must shake hands before and after, showing respect for the other fighter, win or lose. It is uncommon to see administration in the form of an embrace even after one has lost a tough battle. These values are created through combative sports, and stay with a wrestle for the remainder of their…
Let me tell you a story about Dan Gable and how he saved wrestling. He was in the second grade. His dad was taking him to a wrestling tournament in Des Moines. All the people in the area were starting to quit wrestling and started to play basketball. It was Dan’s last chance to save wrestling before he would be the only wrestler left in the area. His family had wrestled for all their life. Dan want for his kids and their kids to wrestle like he had, so wrestling would still be in their family.…
When Tae Kwon Do became popular in Canada it strengthened the mind and bodies of practitioners. The attributes of Tae Kwon Do made people more behaved and respectful. It taught adults and children how to defend themselves from a threat. Tae Kwon Do also strengthened individual communities. Communities would gather for classes, belt tests, and tournaments. I know when I went to the a tournament, all my fellow grasshoppers, and parents bonded and cheered each other on like never before. When I talked with Master Jerome Cabanatan at the tournament, he told me “It's great that we’re all just coming here and spreading Tae Kwon Do, that's what it's about, coming here and just being here.” Tae Kwon Do strengthened…
In this paper I will compare and contrast one aspect of pre-and post colonial igbo culture. In the United States wrestling is not real, it is entertainment, it is well known as “WWE”. WWE travels all over the world, they have the wrestling matches in a fancy place, it has came plenty of times to Tucson, Az. WWE pays the wrestlers about $2.75 million WWE is mainly for entertainment now in the post colonial era. In Nigeria people believe that wrestling is just not a sport but as a way of resolving problems. It can help the wrestlers step out of the box and become someone they never thought they would be. Men and young boys would participate in wrestling fight, it was very rare to see a women fight. The wrestling fights usually happen at night,…
Being part of the Camanche Wrestling program has made a major impact on my life, and without a doubt shaped me into the person I am today. The sport of wrestling is unlike any other sport, and teaches you many life lessons along with pushing you beyond your limits. Overall the sport has had a positive effect on my life from kindergarten to my senior year of high school.…
Dan Gable is titled by many as the most legendary amateur American wrestler and coach in the history of amateur American wrestling. To put into retrospect of Dan’s popularity in the wresting world, Gable is the Michael Jordan of Basketball, the Pele of Soccer, and the Muhammad Ali of boxing, everyone has heard of Dan Gable. That is how legendary Dan Gable is. But what single attribute made Mr. Gable so special and unique? To pinpoint one certain accolade that made Gable a legend is almost too hard. Dan Gable had an almost normal life growing up as a boy; he began his fame by his wrestling accolades as an athlete at Iowa State University and cemented his wrestling lore as a coach at the University of Iowa, and still inspires the wrestling world ‘til this day.…
In “children Need to Play, Not compete,” Jessica Statsky highlights her concerns regarding the destructive effects competitive sports have on children. This issue needs to be resolved and the parents need to understand the consequences of making these kinds of sports part of their children lives. These sports are not suitable for young children as they are based on the age and strength of adults. Jessica talks about the damaging effects these competitive sports have on a child’s brain and bodies. The strain the game put on their bodies is enormous. Stastsky brings forth the issue regarding how the sports have become all about winning. Due to this fact, the children miss out on the importance of sports and what it really teaches the concept…
The best feeling in the world, was standing on the number one podium three times and…
As a result of most of my family being athletes, I was pretty much destined to carry on the torch in the world of sports. Wrestling took me by storm early at an early age and continued to grow on me throughout my teenage years. The topic that I want to express to readers is that of how wrestling affected my life.…
The part of my life I am about to recount was during the summer of 2014 when I was the starting pitcher and third hitter for the Drexel Hill Little League tournament team. Now, baseball is america’s pastime and in my words is the greatest sport on god's green earth. A little background on the sport is it’s a game of nines. Nine starting players on each team try to score as many runs in nine inning by hitting a nine inch baseball coming in at an average speed of ninety miles per hour. This leaves the batter with about .16 Seconds to react to the pitch and hit it with all their power with a bat about 36 inches long and 2.75 Inches in diameter. I was first introduced to the sport when I was only seven years old and my father, who is also a huge…
For a majority of my childhood, the sport of baseball was the one activity I loved above anything else. Nothing could compare to the exhilarating freedom and satisfaction of bolting full speed around the bases, determined to steal, beating the "Throwdown" by a fraction of a second. The massive dust cloud kicked up by my cleats and the thunderous boom of the umpire shouting, "Safe!" made me feel empowered.…
Although I have had many injuries growing up, there is one that particularly changed my life for the better. The injury occurred when I was playing eighth grade football. It was August and we were scrimmaging Westfield; a very good team that had a lot of big players. The coach called me onto the field to play fullback, which means that I was probably going to carry the football. As I was running onto the field my heart started to beat a little faster. I had a bad feeling about getting the ball. I thought that I was going to get hurt because on the play prior the fullback ahead of me injured his knee on a run. Everything went well for the first few plays, but on the fifth play the coach called a fullback run. My heart was racing, at the snap of the ball I ran ahead for about an eight yard gain, but on the way down I felt a horrible pain in my right foot. I ended up going to the hospital a half an hour later, the doctor said that I had multiple fractures (6 to be exact), possibly some torn ligaments, and a dislocation of a few bones. I really did a number on myself. The doctor claimed to me that I would be out for at least 6 weeks, which is over halfway through the regular season. The doctor also highly recommended that I go see a sports injury specialist, or a foot specialist.…
On Saturday, December 12th, 2015, when arriving home around ten o'clock from a long wrestling meet that lasted till around nine o'clock, I got home, then ate dinner, and then went on the couch to relax. My mom complained "You're always so tired after wrestling and you come home so late." After a little conversation, my mom got to the point where she admitted "I don't want you to do wrestling." Prior to when she said that, on the way home, my stepfather also admitted "Your mom and I have been talking about how you should quit wrestling." Eventually during the conversation my mom and I shared, it all made sense. I knew I wasn't ready to give up wrestling because of what i think it means to me, but of course I started crying. This is that moment…
“You can quit when you are finished.” My dad has been saying this my entire life. Everytime he said that I took it to heart because, it is a powerful saying if you really and truly follow it. I had followed that saying my whole life relatively easily, until my freshman year of wrestling. During that season I was tested in how much I really believed in what my dad had been saying.…