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Becoming a hockey player was a dream Tim always wanted to pursue. Therefore, him and his family moved to Duparquet, Quebec and in 1936, where he learned how to play hockey. He took the sport very seriously and played competitively. “His mother told me he got a complete hockey outfit the Christmas he was six, and Tim always says that was the best Christmas he ever had.” said Lori Horton, Tim’s wife, from the book Stanley Cups to Coffee Cups. When he was 15,Tim and his family moved to Sudbury.
I want this so badly not only for me, but for my family. With great confidence and persistence, I tried out for the team and made it! After the long journey of watching the games as a kid, to playing hockey all my life, to practicing with the team, to finally making it; the dream had finally been accomplished. Still to this day, this is one of my greatest achievements. It was at this point that I finally became an important part of the true culture of the Hartland Hockey team.
Around the third grade I remember asking my parents if I could play hockey, one of my friends was and I truly enjoyed the sport. They countered that the sport was very expensive and could be dangerous.
I ended up living with a teammate and played for a Junior B league, playing with men up to twenty years old! I still fit in well there. When I reached the age seventeen, my good friend, John F. Bassett began to help convince the National Hockey League to allow younger and promising players to play hockey, even if they were under twenty years of age. He couldn’t quite convince them yet. Who I really owe my jumpstarting Hockey career to is Nelson Skalbania.
I had no experience at all with playing so I was apprehensive about trying out. The first couple of practices, we worked on ball skills: throw, catch, repeat. I dropped virtually all of them and was ready to give up. As the season went on, I spent hours at home bouncing the lacrosse
I waited by the dance room door for what felt like hours, waiting to see if I made the varsity cheer team. The feeling of both nervousness and excitement overcame me as the coach walked over to the door to post the numbers of the few who made it. The past nine years of my life I played softball year round when I decided to trade in my bat and helmet for a set of pom-poms and a bow. Making the switch from softball to cheer was a big change, I had neither the skill nor physical capability to do what the sport of cheer incorporated.
Lacrosse has been part of my life since before I was even born. My mother, uncle, and cousins played, so it was only natural that I picked up a stick as well. I started playing at a young age and am grateful to have the opportunity to continue playing now at the collegiate level. However, for all the time that I have spent competing in the sport, there is another, more unique side to the game that I am also quite experienced in. I began refereeing for youth players in early high school and have continued to this day.
Nothing hurts more than being excluded. I learned this the hard way my sophomore year. This is a story about my high school lacrosse team. Most of my friends are on the team so we’ve become very close after playing together since the seventh grade. We play lacrosse in the backyard almost everytime we’re together.
Soon we are hoping to add a Jr FLL league to Burnsville’s community. Currently we have two FLL teams and four FTC teams. We work with these local teams hands on to make opportunities for them to learn and experience STEM early on. Students on Team 3184 often go to these teams and help mentor them. We are orientated on giving the opportunity of knowing the expertise of FIRST to every child, but especially focus on the young girls.
Did your parent(s) make you ever do a sport you seemed like you had no interest in doing at all? Well that happened to me. I never planned on playing softball until I was 9 and my dad signed me up for softball. Before softball I did cheer which I was really loved cheer and I didn’t like that my dad was making me give it up.
Local lacrosse players are more than happy to point prospective players in the right direction. Southwest Sophomore and Mills farm resident Brady Shannon backed up this claim, saying “People are completely able to join lacrosse, just show up and you’ll find a spot on the team.” Lacrosse is welcoming to new players of all ages and athletic backgrounds. In fact, local high schools commonly welcome brand new players to their teams. It is a particularly popular option for students looking for a good off-season
Can you imagine what conditions would be like for Canadian workers if workers had no benefits such as medical and dental, no say in hours or days off? That is just a few examples of what our working world without unions, or organized labour, would look like. Unions seek to give Canadian workers a voice for equality between all parts of a company where there may not have always been a chance for workers to speak up and are an essential part of working class structure in society. Though not every working Canadian today, or in the past has been part of a union they have helped shape the standards of today 's employment expectations.
With being at that academy and around that competitive nature I learnt perseverance, sportsmanship, as well as how to stay humble. Samuel Johnson once said “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance”. With being the youngest on the team, I was passed over multiple times for ice time, sitting out of important games due to the fact that I was the youngest and the newest member to the team. When you get constantly looked over time after time, it takes a toll on
Dedication is the secret to success for many athletes. I started playing mini-mite travel hockey when I was five years old. At that level they focused on teaching us basics of skating and hockey skills. After playing travel hockey for a couple years, I quit hockey all together for coaching difficulties.
For most of my childhood, the sport of baseball was the one activity I loved above anything else. Nothing could compare to the exhilarating freedom and satisfaction of bolting full speed around the bases, determined to steal 2nd, beating the "Throwdown" by a fraction of a second. The massive dust cloud kicked up by my cleats and the thunderous boom of the umpire shouting, "Safe!" made me feel empowered. It was in moments like those, when I was in control of my own fate, choosing whether to stay or to run, whether to play it safe or to risk failure, that I learned one of the most important lessons of my life.
