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My Soccer Journey-Personal Narrative Essay

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I (Mackenzie Renee Oleson) was born on June 21, 2002. I’ve been living in West Des Moines, Iowa my whole life. Soccer is one of my biggest hobbies. I recently traveled to Indiana for regional soccer because my team won state cup. My second biggest hobby is traveling a place or two I’ve recently visited was Kailua Kona, Hawaii and Zion National Park in Utah. I have a younger brother in 6th grade currently, his name is Elliott. My goal to achieve is to get a scholarship to play soccer at college one day. I go by the quote “True championships aren’t always the one that win, but those with the most guts.”- Mia Hamm. I’m gonna talk about my soccer journey, where I’ve traveled with my family to and what I wanna do in college.
Everyone thinks that soccer is that boring sport where you just kick a ball and run, but it actually isn’t. Soccer is a game where you have to have lots of skills and always have to be mentally ready for anything to happen like my team at state cup. We were losing 3-0 with 10 minutes to play and in those 10 minutes we scored 4 …show more content…

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