Throughout my life I have had many experiences, obstacles, and people that have somehow affected me along my journey as an athlete. Sports may seem like just a game to some, but it is in fact much more than that. The obstacles I have gone through and lessons that I have learned in sports has shaped me into who I am today.
I honestly cannot say that when I was very young I came to any realization that sports would be such an enormous part of my life. It was more like I had always known, and I never thought to question it.
I was exposed to sports from the very beginning. The decoration of my room was sports related, I had basketball doorknobs and pillows. My dad always watched sports on television and my brother always played sports video games. So, I was familiar with sports very early. When I would watch my brother and dad shoot the basketball or throw the football it made me want to do it. I always believed I was fast and strong for my age, even if I was not. So, when I would watch them I would think to myself “that looks fun and easy, I can do that”. That is when I started to learn and play sports myself. My brother, is six years older than me and was always bigger than me. So, of course I wanted to try and beat him at everything. I started playing sports every day because I wanted to be better than he was.
When I started playing sports I had this belief that I could be like the athletes I watched on television. It just looked so cool, jumping around, and playing