Everyone takes risks throughout their lifetime. Whether that risk is moving away from their family for college, or walking to school instead of riding the bus, everyone takes some sort of risk. Throughout my childhood, athletics drove my motivation but as I matured, I realized I needed to build a foundation. A foundation strong enough to guide my future to prosperity. Taking the risk of dropping out of all athletic extracurriculars, has led to the formation of new skills, experiencing other aspects of life, and receiving a greater understanding of the world around us. For the most part, secondary school athletics in comparison to athletics on a collegiate scale are vastly different. For instance, on top of going to class every single day, athletes have to go straight to practice. Some days practices can drag out into late afternoon or into the nighttime. Which would lead to the question, how can student athletes juggle classes and sports on top of the homework and studying needed to pass the courses they are …show more content…
Being a freshman, I knew that I had to find some ways to become active in our community, so I joined Key Club, a club dedicated to volunteering for local non-profit organizations. Once, freshman year ended, I was recruited to join Eagle Renaissance, a club determined to shine a light on individuals that show substantial life skills every day. Junior year was troubling. Along with being inducted into National Honors Society (NHS), still being active as a Key Club member (Eagle Renaissance eventually was taken over by Student Council), and maintaining academic honors, I added a job to the equation. Working 20-25 hours a week on top of volunteering through NHS and Key Club was a strenuous process, but I was able to discover my pathway for my future, along with building a skill set that would benefit further than that of