Macy had played volleyball almost all her life. In fact, it was her favorite sport. She started playing at the rec level when she was about 7 years old. Macy played for Carbon Valley Recreation Center in Firestone, Colorado. Her mom coached her rec team from the year she started to this day.
Describing my junior year to a stranger would be like a college student describing their junior year. Starting my career in high school is a blessing. You have a good idea of
Sophomore year, I learned more about hard work than ever in my life so far. I doubled up in science, I was constantly bogged down by copious English assignments, and my basketball coach pushed me further than anyone had ever before. I made a lot of bittersweet memories in the hot, musty OAC that winter during those practices. Junior year was an absolute blur. I made an effort to engage in my friendships and learn more about the people around me.
Through the experience of working as youth leader for freshman connection I have grown as a better leader. To help incoming freshman was incredible experience for me. I joined freshman connection to serve school and defiantly to get knowledge and team building skills out of it, so that it can help me make my college experience better. I think I have achieved all the goals that I wanted to through working as youth leader. Additionally, not only that but also to work on community service project on bullying has really allowed me to serve as teacher helper.
I would like Posse Fundation to know that doring my junior year, I was enrolled in early college at the University of the District of Columbia, taking English Composition 1, and I will also start the US History to 1865 class this summer, June 27 in the same university. I have been in the honor roll since my freshman year in high school until now, my Junior year. Additionally, through out my high school experience, I have recieved several awards, including the Academic Excelence Award, Pride, Poise, Perseverance Award, Articulate Communicator in Two Lenguages Award, and the Intellectually Curious Scholar Award. I have worked as a babysitter every afternoon for almost a year. Doring my Senior year, I will be joining the girls softball team as
I have played volleyball for six years now. Our volleyball season can revenue three months longer. This past season I was on the junior varsity team. In the upcoming season I will be playing on the varsity team. These teams prepare myself for my future because they help me learn how to collaborate with others.
Volleyball has been my passion since the sixth grade, I love it with all my heart, and could not imagine my life without it. This past summer I had the opportunity to attend the Concordia College volleyball camp in St. Paul with a few friends from Sartell. It has been sometime since I’ve participated in one of these camps, and I was a bit hesitant about going because I did not know what was expected of me. My mother had signed me up, as she believed that the skills I would learn would make me a better player, truth was, I was not so sure. I told my mom, “I won’t know anybody, and the girls there will be more experienced than me.”
My volleyball passion started when I was in the 6th grade. I remember that I wanted to play because my dad introduced me to the sport because he coaches it. Anyway, although at the young age I wasn’t very good; and I looked like a deer in the headlights, and I knew I wanted to improve. 6th-7th grade we only had a traveling team, but once school started I was so excited. A lot of girls went out the first 3 years of school volleyball, and it was tough for individual help, but it was still fun.
Most of the time being a freshman isn’t as fun and you’re looked at as young and immature, but that wasn’t the case for me. I knew a lot of the upper classmen and had older siblings that showed me the way. For the most part, my social life in high school was pretty solid. I coasted my way through and didn’t take anything serious. I had a really cool counselor that I was
In the past, someone told me to never give up on something that I am not able go a day without thinking about, no matter what obstacles come my way. Volleyball has become a big part of my life and I see myself applying all that I have learned from this sport to my future endeavors. It definitely has impacted my life overall and I believe my life would be totally different without it. Without playing volleyball, I would not have made all the life-long friendships and amazing memories that continue to grow everyday.
I’ve played since I was a eleven years old, with the same coach for my entire volleyball career. The last two years of my life has gotten easier for me to learn on my own, because I relate everything in life to the sport of volleyball, or any sport in general. Engaging my life in this sport has created a family outside of my family. In a family of teammates you learn how to trust each other and also learn how to cooperate with one another like a well functioning society. In sports you also learn to be selfless; you learn how to care of others, and you learn how to be responsible for your teammates.
Narrative: I moved to Kansas City, Kansas seven years ago. It all started when I was in 6th grade with these girls. I was a different race then them. They thought it would be cool to mess and try to get rid of the white girl. One day, they decided to try everything they possibly can to get me kicked out.
This sport has helped me make new friends, learn new things, and made me angry a lot of times. During volleyball season I get so stressed, it is hard playing a sport while keeping up your grades. But, it is so worth it. I am very compassionate about the sport. I have hurt my knee playing and also have hurt my ankle
Just like in Jing-mei’s mother in Two Kinds, my parents have always told me I can be whatever I want to be, because this is America. But every day I ask myself, who am I? What is my cultural identity? Just by a glance I am like everyone else, a typical American teenager. A girl trying to make it through school and make my life as successful as possible, and maybe find myself along the way.
While I do not consider it a failure now at the time I was definitely frustrated with myself and considered it a failure. When I had to repeat my junior year I was mad at myself for not be able to complete the school year. As time went on I was able to focus on the positives in the situation and I was able to finally accept that I was not prepared for my senior year both emotionally and academically considering I missed so much school. If I did continue on to senior year I would not have been close to prepared as I am now for college. I ended up repeating my junior year due to the fact that I missed close to two-thirds of school due to a medical condition.
