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…
Few sports encompass the battle of human bodies and wills quite like the sport of wrestling does. Two opponents of equal size, with little equipment, and no goal other than to physically dominate your opponent. Ask any wrestler, however, and they will tell you that this “physical” battle is 90% mental- more about breaking and outlasting your opponent rather than feats of physical strength. Press that same wrestler a little further, and they will admit that the toughest battle is not actually with the person standing on the line across from you, but rather within your own mind and body. The fact that wrestlers drop a lot of weight before competition, (sometimes using harmful methods) is well-known, but few people understand the full process…
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…
A recent Gallup poll asked "Do you consider pro wrestling to be a sport, or not?" Of the people asked, 81% said "No." The results were based on telephone interviews with a randomly selected national sample of 1,028 adults, 18 years and older, conducted August 16-18, 1999.…
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.…
agree as he stated,"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy." In addition to…
Ever since kicking my first soccer ball during Kinder Kicks, soccer has become a fundamental aspect of my life. Not only have I been playing the sport since then, but the sport has also influenced me beyond solely playing it. It is the culture surrounding the game as well. It is waking up early every Saturday morning to watch the Liverpool game, or getting ready to cheer on the New England Revolution in Gillette Stadium in the evenings. Soccer has been embedded everywhere in my life, from the posters on my bedroom walls to the jerseys that continue to accumulate on my closet floor. This passion has driven me to share the sport with as many as I can. With the Natick Soccer Organization, I have been organizing tournaments for U10 and U14 boys…
Just from sports you can learn life lessons for just that watching or even playing. Even though competitive sports is about participation it is all about how hard you work and how hard you try. If your team gets last in a tournament, that does not matter…
Recently, the decision has been made to remove wrestling from the Olympics in the year 2020. This heavily debated decision was made because it is said that wrestling does not produce enough ticket sales and is not popular enough on the global scale. Therefore, it has been proposed that it be replaced with karate or rock climbing. With this major change in the Olympics, many people are going to suffer, such as returning Olympic placers or even nations that are successful in wrestling. Wrestling should not be removed from the Olympics because it is a historical part of the Olympics. Wrestling was one of the first five sports in the Olympics and the oldest sport…
High impact sports could be dangerous without the proper padding and protection. High impact sports include: football(tackle), girls soccer, ice hockey, girls basketball, boys lacrosse, and many more. The long term effects of high impact sports are concussions and CTE’s.…
“No sport is older or more widely distributed than wrestling” (Encyclopedia Britannica). Wrestling has been part of people’s life styles in hand-to-hand combat, to actual competition till one of the opponents die, and now present day where the sport is for winning but not causing death.…
One thing that I have learned from wrestling is self-confidence. It is just me out there against my opponent and no one to help me. So I learned to believe in myself because I would accomplish things that I didn't think I could do. Last year I was wrestling a kid from Capital who won state the year before I was nervous to wrestle him. Well it was a close match and I was down by one point with only a few seconds left on the clock. But I finally just took my chance and hit a sweet double leg takedown to win the match. Wrestling has showed me that you are responsible for your own success. It has also taught me to take my shot no matter what. It doesn't matter the outcome whether it is winning or losing if I knew I put my all into what I just did. Then I would be proud and not hang my head and pout.…
Varsity football has had an enormous impact on me during high school because it taught me how dedication and determination would help me succeed in academics as well as in extracurricular activities.…
Sports were a scary thing to deal with when I was little, but I realized that in my age group I tended to be a large-sized kid. After realizing that I was a larger kid in my age group, I found sports more fun and less frightening. Foot and wrestling came easy to me and I had no problem with dealing with the growing up part in sports. Wrestling had helped me a lot. In wrestling you must be respectful, mature, and obedient. This sport alone has helped me grow up a lot due to the fact that you must be very self-obedient by not eating and always working out to keep your weight down.…
