Personal Essay: How Soccer Changed My Life
As a freshman on varsity soccer, I set my expectations high for myself. That’s why I was so disappointed with my soccer abilities when I was benched several games. So, I made myself work over the winter and summer to have some playing time on varsity. Every Sunday, my parents would go wash clothes at the laundromat and I would cross the street to my local YMCA and practice outside by myself. No matter what the weather was I’d be out there. I would set up tires in front of the goal and shoot through them to work on my accuracy, for my both left and right foot and back up more and more every time I got it through. Eventually, when it started getting warmer more people started to go. I met many people through the game and I learned a variety