Personal Statement: My Involvement With The Local Football Program

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The most meaningful interest that I would like to share is my involvement with the local football program. In my town, football is the one sport season where you can see nearly every citizen in the stands, cheering on our team. I see how important the sport is to my community, so for the last two years I have volunteered as a manager for the team, where I spend up to four hours every week day on the sidelines or in the weight room to ensure that the players and coaches are prepared for game day and practices. Being a manager isn’t that easy, as I have a heavy workload from school already, but we are expected to provide water, refill water bottles, wash towels, jerseys, and pants, prepare game uniforms every Wednesday, provide basic first aid, load gear onto the busses and run errands when asked by the coaches. Even though this list of duties …show more content…

During my Junior year, while attending both high school and Tri-County Tech as a Pre-Nursing student, I was asked by the head football coach to assist the team as a manager, so I agreed and even asked a few of my friends to participate as well. At that point in time, I didn’t know of all of the time I would be putting in on the sidelines as well as in the weight room, but I am glad that I agreed because it really makes me happy to see how much my effort is benefitting the team as well as the community. Directly after school I would go to the field and report to the coaches that I was there for the day and then I would go directly inside the weight room building and fill the water containers and bottles and take them to the field before I could begin the other work to do inside. By the end of the season, I had put in over 136 hours involved with the program, before I moved on to helping with wrestling season as a mat