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During my lifetime I encountered many amazing people. One man who I admire most is my friend, Billy Selingo. Billy is twenty-seven years old and currently attending Manhattanville College to receive his master’s degree. Billy always been a very talented hockey player, as a freshman he began at the Holderness School then attended a post grad year at the Selects Academy at South Kent, which totals five years at the competitive prep school level. Next up for him was a scholarship to continue his hockey career at Manhattanville College, where the team competed at the division three hockey level. Billy had more skill than most of the team, he thought by playing at the division three level he would receive more playing time than he was actually getting. Halfway through the season he grew very upset, this …show more content…

Three and a half years later, he graduated. After graduating Billy had been offered the job of assistant men’s hockey coach at Fredonia State University in New York which is where he earned the title of the NCAA’s youngest coach ever recorded. Currently, along with attending graduate school Billy is the assistant coach of the Manhattanville men’s ice hockey team. The reason I admire Billy as much as a do, is because he is not someone who lead a perfect life, he is real, he showed me life isn’t always going to go your way and curve balls will be thrown but you just how to power through it, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. I see myself learning from Billy each and every day, he taught me how getting an education and powering through school will soon pay off and open many doors each holding new and exiting opportunities that may never have presented themselves without a strong work ethic, strong mind, and most importantly an education. I live in hopes that one day I will feel as accomplished and proud of myself as Billy does

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