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Building Relationships With Sports At Saint Andrew Schools

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During my years at Saint Andrew's, I have come in contact with a unique, fantastic community that I have found to love and appreciate. Saint Andrews's community is like no other, because of its love and caring people. During my years at Saint Andrew's, I have developed relationships with various people which I now call family and friends. There have been so many positive experiences at Saint Andrew School in different settings. During my time at Saint Andrew's, I experienced many positive interactions with the community and people, I did this in different ways and different environments.

One example of how I built relationships with my fellow community members was when I was offered help to be guided around the school. Where I found similarities …show more content…

Sports helped me build on and build new relationships, it also allowed me to meet new people and encounter a new elements. Sports helped me, as we both shared similar interests and could connect more. Sports at Saint Andrew's was a whole new experience for me, as in previous schools our sports were not as organized and prestigious. Although, I had experience with sports with schools, sports at Saint Andrew's were different because as a team we were more united and compact, which made making friends and relations easier. As time passed and as a team, we spent more time together it started feeling more like a place of belonging and friendship. Because the team grew close together and we were unified. Even after the season ended, we were still a team, and this team became a family for me as we were all so close. We still check in with each other, encourage each other and motivate each other to get better. I experienced this in multiple sports and seasons as every different sport brought new interesting people. Although my main sport was soccer, I had the chance to experience new sports at Saint Andrews like Basketball, Track and Field, and Cross Country. All these new sports opened me up, I found new interests, new passions, and new hobbies. Of these sports, I still play these to this day as I grew compassion and fondness for the game, which then led me to find new people to enjoy it with. The sports community at Saint Andrew's is such a loving and compassionate place but at the same time competitive and that is why I love

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