From Athlete to Accountant Major
Mateo Magallon
English 98
11 September 2013
Essay 1
From Athlete to Account Major According to Lynn O’Shaughnessy, a college blogger, that about 2% of seniors win sports scholarships every year to a NCAA institution. I strongly believe that everyone has had a dream that drastically changed throughout the course of his or her lifetime. Most of us have dreamt about being a famous actor, singer, or even a athlete. Due to life circumstances those dreams were taken away or have changed. I realized that this had happened to me not once but twice. I didn’t expect it to happen because I was a very athletic person. This brings me to the events that changed my life from wanting to be a soccer player to now wanting to be an accountant. It all began when I wasn’t born yet. According to my mom she always told me that I used to kick a lot inside of her whom. She always said that I would be a famous soccer player. When I was six years old I saw my first soccer match on TV. It was the last match of the qualifying round between Mexico and Uruguay in 1990. After seeing that game I knew I wanted to play soccer, and that my dream is to play for the national team of Mexico. Couple of years later I was playing pee wee soccer. That year we won the championship. I continued to play for a couple more years where I polished my skills as peewees, which lead us to a couple more championships. My life started to change when I entered middle school. In 7th grade it was one of my best years. Knowing that I wanted to play soccer I tried out for the schools soccer team, and because of my skills I ended up in the first string of the team. We went undefeated that season and ended up winning the championship that year. The following year it wasn’t so great because that is when the course of events started to change my life. It was towards the middle of the season when I got injured with a torn ACL in my right leg. That injury ended the season for me and I had to have surgery. Since I
English 98
11 September 2013
Essay 1
From Athlete to Account Major According to Lynn O’Shaughnessy, a college blogger, that about 2% of seniors win sports scholarships every year to a NCAA institution. I strongly believe that everyone has had a dream that drastically changed throughout the course of his or her lifetime. Most of us have dreamt about being a famous actor, singer, or even a athlete. Due to life circumstances those dreams were taken away or have changed. I realized that this had happened to me not once but twice. I didn’t expect it to happen because I was a very athletic person. This brings me to the events that changed my life from wanting to be a soccer player to now wanting to be an accountant. It all began when I wasn’t born yet. According to my mom she always told me that I used to kick a lot inside of her whom. She always said that I would be a famous soccer player. When I was six years old I saw my first soccer match on TV. It was the last match of the qualifying round between Mexico and Uruguay in 1990. After seeing that game I knew I wanted to play soccer, and that my dream is to play for the national team of Mexico. Couple of years later I was playing pee wee soccer. That year we won the championship. I continued to play for a couple more years where I polished my skills as peewees, which lead us to a couple more championships. My life started to change when I entered middle school. In 7th grade it was one of my best years. Knowing that I wanted to play soccer I tried out for the schools soccer team, and because of my skills I ended up in the first string of the team. We went undefeated that season and ended up winning the championship that year. The following year it wasn’t so great because that is when the course of events started to change my life. It was towards the middle of the season when I got injured with a torn ACL in my right leg. That injury ended the season for me and I had to have surgery. Since I