From the time I was born I have been surrounded by sports. My dad tells me that while my mother was giving birth he was watching the Major League Baseball all star game and she made him turn it off. My middle name is Brenden, named after the now retired hall-of-famer, left wing, Brendan Shanahan. I can remember being in love with sports for all my life. For birthday parties when I was younger I would have all of my friends come over and we would play pick up baseball games. For about three or four years in a row my mom would take me to the Whitecaps game for my birthday. Baseball was not the only sport that I loved to play or watch however. When I was around middle school age, my dad would take me with him to my uncles so that I could help him with his fantasy football drafts. When we had giant family reunions all the men ever talked about was sports and their favorite players or coaches. I attempted to stay included in everyone of those conversations. This led me to start collecting and observing statistics for lots of different sports. I ranged from watching documentaries on the best …show more content…
I played baseball starting at age 3 and ending when I reached high school. The reason I did not play in high school was because I did not enjoy the teammates that I would have played with. However I loved the sport too much to just give it up. To still participate I was the sports journalist for my school's newspaper. I wrote a few articles on the spring sports. I did not however continue this after that year. Our newspaper was very poorly ran and it was too tedious to send it your article to have it not published. When I was in middle school I played football as well as basketball and soccer. However these were dropped because more students hit their growth spurts where as I did not. As much as we do not like to say that size matters, it is very crucial in sports. Different body types have lower or higher chances of