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To most players on the Permian High School football team academics are put off because of football. But Brian Chavez is not most players, he cares about school a lot. Brian has a grip on reality he realizes that he cannot play football forever, there has to be a backup plan. “As he headed into his senior year he also realized that he wanted something more. No matter how glorious and exciting the season was, he also knew it would come to an end” (Bissinger 156).
Little kids always want to make it to the pros, as they get older they narrow it down into smaller goals. I will never know what it’s like to go to a small town school; I graduated with a class of over 500. In this school of approximately 2,000 students, I can only imagine the pressure that was put on our football team when their season started to become a winning one. Odessa is a small town located in western Texas, home of the Permian Panthers. The Permian Panthers are only a high school football team, but the way the town acts you would think they were all going to receive major scholarships.
The documentary In Football We Trust followed the stories of four high school aged football players in Utah over the period of four years. Each of the families featured in the film were of Polynesian descent, and many of the people in the film were active members of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints. Though all three families lived in Salt Lake City in Utah, the featured players attended three different high schools, and they did not all share the same access to resources. For many kids who grow up in poor neighborhoods, sports are often viewed as the only way to get out of the area they grew up in. An athletic scholarship is seen as the only way to get to college, and college athletics is the only way to go pro and finally “make it,” so to speak.
Walking on to a division one college football team can sound extremely daunting, because of all of the extraordinarily accomplished athletes on a stereotypical college football team. Were highly recruited from middle school. But most of the adolescent in high school that just pour out their blood, sweat, and tears on the football field just to be recruited by three or four division two schools in the middle of nowhere, or having to relegate and go to a junior college and play there for their freshman and sophomore years of college. With the hopefulness that a division one college football school would somehow offer you a scholarship for your last junior and senior years in college. But some student athletes take the road that’s starting to gain some traction because of the multimedia movies for example the movie Rudy.
Furthermore, I have made a commitment to them and have worked to expand the clubs and raise their popularity and participation from the Xavier community. I have also participated in three sports
Big Sun Scholarship Playing soccer throughout high school,made my life a roller coaster without soccer i wouldn’t have the stabilization i have today. Participated in soccer had a huge impacted on my family and myself , it created a lot of happy, joyful memories, but also created a lot of conflict and struggle between us. With everything we been through my family and myself are beyond sure everything we been through is going to be worth it at the end of the journey. At the age of 10 years old I started playing soccer.
Every year parents and students of local schools can come and enjoy seeing kids of their community playing football, which could make a player's future bright, and a grandparent proud. However, some would argue to say high school football is too dangerous to keep around. Kids and adults are then forced to take a side on the issue for the good of the school and the safety of the children. However, it seems too important to let go. Considering the college scholarships that can be provided, the countless generations of players in certain families, and the homecoming activities would be pointless without it.
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.
Football helps you push through difficulties in your life and helps you not to give up on yourself or your team because if you do it will go to shambles. Frank Delano the Courier-Post Football Coach of the Year in 2013 talks about overcoming obstacles "There is nothing about football or
I also play on travel club teams in the summer and fall. I love these teams because I get to meet players from other areas of the state and I feel mixing it up really helps to strengthen my game.
Playing football means so much to me because it helps me to not be depressed all the time and to prove to doctors that I can play the sport even with narcolepsy and cataplexy. Also, I want to prove to many people that told me it will be extremely difficult to major in Civil Engineering and play football at the same time. Engineering itself is very difficult, especially when you start the introduction of your major your junior year. Last but not least, football can help me pay for school by earning a scholarship, even though I walked on. This motivation helps me for schooling because all of my first cousins played college ball on an athletic scholarship.
Initially, my mind was set to join the soccer team. However, I found out there weren’t any openings available. The only team that had an opening was The Cross Country Team. I was terrified…my parents encouraged me to join as there wasn’t an option not to.
Last year I played in the Conference Youth Alliance league and this year I have played in the FA youth cup and have played in the English College Football association league. I feel that if the team I am in has success it will give me individual success and rewards. While studying at your University I plan to participate in sport clubs such as football. I have found that me playing at this level has made me an enthusiastic, hardworking and well balanced individual and I feel this would be a good traits to bring to your
The season started out like any other, one week of pain staking agony and push-ups. The constant workouts, sweat, and two hour practices were completely worth the outcome of my last volleyball season. The past four years of my high school career I spent being a member of the volleyball team. But to me, this is not just a team, this is my family.
The hard part was to find one that would give me a tryout. I ended up making a team called the Spanish town football club they weren’t the best but they taught me a lot about the game I spent a year there. My next task was to get on my prep school team who were ranked #7 in the whole nation at the time. I remember the night before open tryouts because all I was thinking about was me not making it. I was an only child
