Being An Athlete - Original Writing

It was a normal spring night and my baseball game had just started. It was senior night and I was pitching, we had just finish the first half of the first inning. My teammate struck out, it was my turn to hit, I swung for the ball and my leg popped twice. I went down and didn't get back up, My leg was stuck to my chest and I couldn't move it. The visiting team's coach was an EMT he ran over and said ¨this is going to hurt¨ and pulled my leg straight. What had happened was when I swung the bat my leg didn't move and my kneecap dislocated and instead of my ligaments tearing, they stretched and broke my kneecap. This was a challenge for me because this was the first time I had never broken a bone in my life. I went to the doctor and he said nothing was wrong, so my

My freshman year of high school I broke the Scaphoid and growth plate in my right wrist while playing in a basketball game. I didn’t know that it was broken for two weeks and I played in three of four basketball games with my broken dominant hand. I found that is was probably broken the Monday before Christmas. On Christmas Eve I was told that I would be put in a cast for the entire Christmas break and on January 3rd we would find out if it was really broke. Sure enough we came back and told that I would have to be in a cast for six to eight weeks. I was pretty devastated and upset that I would be out for the rest of the season, it had barely begun. I was staying pretty optimistic about it because it would give me a chance to work on my weak hand, it was my left, and make it stronger. I still went to practice and worked as hard as I could hoping that the coach’s

I always loved to play softball. I was so good I skipped tee ball and when straight to the big leagues which was coach pitch. These ages were the six and seven year olds. I used to play every base and I could run like a firecracker. As I got older I picked a base to be my specialty which was second and my favorite jersey number was number one. I started softball at the age six and played all the way till I graduated from high school. Through all those years I have won many trophies and awards, for instance I made the All-County Teams and I got player of the year. When I got into high school I picked up the sports basketball and cheerleading. Once I started both it took me awhile to fall in love with basketball but cheerleading I instantly liked it. I liked cheerleading because it showed my girly side a little and I started when I was in the 10th grade. I started basketball when I was in the 7th grade and it was hard work just like softball but I had to have more self-discipline. It took me a while before I became a pro but by the 9th grade I was playing with varsity and balling like Candace Parker. Like softball by senior year I also made All-County, player of the year, and most valuable player. At every game I could always look up and my family would be there, either cheering me on or giving me tips on what to do better. Not only were sports important to me but my grades were more. I always wanted to be top of my class and have all A’s. I have always been on the honor roll ever since I could remember and wouldn’t dare miss getting my name put in the paper or getting paid by my family members, which still happens till this day. Also why in school I join the JROTC, not because I wanted to be in the Army but it was just something I was interested to do. There we went to the nursing home to sing to the elderly and we kept our campus cleaned. Also I served as

In the middle school awkward stages of my life, I was trying to figure out who I was or who I wanted to be. Every day I went to volleyball, swimming, track, basketball, and cheerleading practices but didn’t actually appreciate my life. School years would go by and I was still the same person just associating with people. Life was sad and pathetic.

I met with Dr. O’Neill and was asked to complete five push-ups to test whether or not my ligament had properly healed. Unfortunately, when he noticed that I was unable to complete the push-ups, he knew the ligament would require Tommy John surgery. After a substantial amount of research, my family and I agreed that surgery was my only option. Even with the surgery, I would never be able to throw a ball normally again without additional years of rehabilitation. Dr. O’Neill’s plan was to remove a ligament out of my right wrist and insert it into my elbow, giving my elbow a “brand new” ligament. Because he was to operate on my wrist in addition to my elbow, I would be unable to move my hand or fingers for months. Losing the use of my dominant hand was a major obstacle, especially with my first year of high school right around the

Instead of feeling pressure to conform as a student at the University of Georgia, I have found that being in college has made me value the importance of a higher education more so than I ever had before. During high school, my primary goal was to play well enough to receive a football scholarship. At that time, my focus was not on academics. However, since I've arrived at the University of Georgia, my entire concept of the value of a college degree has slowly changed. Rather than seeing just football in my future, I can now picture myself as a football player with a college degree. Consequently, instead of having a negative impact on my personal growth, college has helped me broaden as a person.

While high school student-athletes invest a lot of time and energy into their sport, the collegiate lifestyle brings a new level of difficulty that many incoming freshmen can find intimidating and overwhelming at first. In addition to being under more pressure to perform on a larger, more competitive stage in front of a more expansive audience, they must also deal with the every day challenges that normal college freshmen face: homesickness, transitioning into a more demanding academic workload, and creating a new social network. College athletes have to have their routines extremely time focused, and make time management essential to their daily lives.

She past me the ball, I took a jump stop and my left knee turned inward to my right knee. My knee turned so bad that the left one touched the right one making a popping sound. I fell to the court in pain while the tears mixed with sweat. The coaches had to call for an ambulance to take me to Cook’s Children Hospital.

When we are young our parents expose us to a variety of sports in hopes that one sport will be the right fit. During my parents’ generation, it was normal to play three different sports. It gave young adults the opportunity to develop new skills and to cross train their body to help prevent injuries from repeated overuse. Although within new generations, the “new” thing is to specialize in one sport in hopes to gain a scholarship or become the best on the team. There has been an increased emphasis on specializing in a single sport which could lead to an increase risk of an injury, overtraining, and becoming burnout of the sport.

“Air Cav,” I said, wondering which story he was going to tell. Lifting my bottle, I sipped my beer.

”Your shoulder has became severely impinged from overuse and it is digging into your rotator cuff along with the stress fracture on the growth plate and the tendinitis it's not looking so good”. “But,” as soon as he said those words I got a glimmer of hope that thing could be alright. “ You might not need to have the surgery. If you do the physical Therapy along with the rest.” After he said those words my water eyes began to leak, rest which means NO swimming “ He went on to explain the process of therapy and rest to my mom because at this point I was totally out of it as he could probably tell from the stream of tears that was running down my face. He soon turned back to me and asked if I have any question. I had hundreds but I only asked one, “How long Until I can swim?” “ We will have progress checks to see how you're doing but I'm going to say it's probably going to be about five months until your shoulder is all healthy and we can start to slowly get you back into things.” The tears that were previously running down my face were now rushing down my face. Dr Chudik left the room to go gets forms for my mom to sign, leaving my mom and I to talk about the issue thats lies ahead of us for the next five

The crowd was roaring like wild animals. Our teams had switched sides to start the second match and everything came into focus then. I could hear individual people cheering in the crowd, the student section was going nuts. The smell of the butter coming from the popcorn at the concession stands suddenly stood out to me. Most importantly, I could feel the yearning and the passion coming from my teammates. We wanted this win–bad. I was one of the leading hitters on the team and it was my job to produce the big hits for the team and motivate them to take everything the other team would hit at us. We started the second game and things were still going well for us! It wasn’t a fluke! We were playing well because we were working hard. If we didn’t hit hard they were going to pound it down, we couldn’t let up. So when our setter set me up and I saw out of the corner of my eye a triple block I knew I had to get it through their hands, but the ball was behind my head. In that split second I made a decision that changed my life forever. I swung away and I felt my shoulder pop and then the worst pain of my life went through my entire arm. I grabbed it right away knowing something was wrong. I’ve never felt pain like this in a game before. In that moment I knew that was the one. Every player knows what it’s like to get hurt. You get sprained ankles and sprained knees all the time, but this was the injury I knew had been coming to me. I looked up at my parents in the crowd and they knew too. Something was wrong.

Being in an American school begins a student’s search to find who they are considered in the system. From a nerd to a punk, many academic ties are also involved with this identity. The one group of students who get the most academic ties with his or her extra-curricular activity is the “jock”. As having the title as a jock, a child learns that many people look at someone who plays football or basketball doesn’t have the ability to learn as fast or as well as someone who just studies and doesn’t have extra-curricular activities. Studying this topic is not as stressed as it should be, even when many programs claim to get more physical activity in students. The articles that have been reviewed were testing whether the athlete gets good grades

“Sports are for fun, but they also offer benefits and lessons that carry over into all aspects of life”. This well-known anonymous quotation conveys the message that sport is the game which has some rules and custom. It is not only for fun and entertainment, but there are also some benefits of playing sports and which gives some important lessons for life. Every kind of physical sports is healthy because it involves running, jumping, stretching, mind skills and much more. There are so many sports available in the world nowadays, but we can categorize them by the numbers of players, the three main categories are individual sport, dual sport and team sport.

Imagine being a fourteen year old exploring channels on the television; nothing really catches your eye, but the sport stations, and this fascinates someone so much that they start thinking “I want to do this whenever I get older,” this exact thing happened to me. Working in the field as a sports writer has always been a dream of mine ever since I was young; watching professional analyst talk about the trending topics in sports on ESPN and reading local reporter’s sport articles in the newspaper. Paying attention to this at such a young age has helped me learn so much about this occupation, and I feel like this fits me best because of my love for learning and writing about sports.