Childhood Accomplishment Report

I started wrestling in sixth grade. Even though I didn’t win one of my first seven matches, I developed into a successful wrestler. In high school I won tournaments and beat high-quality wrestlers. During my junior year I was determined to become a great wrestler. I worked harder than ever and didn’t let anyone stop me. That year I lost the Illinois state wrestling tournament championship match by one point. Over the next six months between my junior and senior season I was runner up at AAU national tournament and wrestled at Disney Land in Florida at the Disney Duals with over 50 other teams and only lost 1 of 8 matches. These are a few of my achievements in high school. Now that I am in college there are many

Being a first year soccer member in sixth grade, I had no expectations of becoming captain of our Junior Varsity team. After all, I'm not the player on the team. So it came as a surprise to me when I was selected as captain.

The strengths that I, Evia Neuman, have acquired and will bring to the Marion High School’s NHS program are the characteristics of scholarship, leadership, character, and service. I am currently in the 11th grade and have maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.8. During my high school career I have participated in volleyball, grades 9th-11th, basketball, and sideline cheer both in 9th grade.While on these teams I have learned what it means to be a team to strategize with other people to come up with a solution that works in the end. As captain of the volleyball team in 10th grade I learned how to be more of a leader. However when I was not a captain doesn’t mean I didn’t still try to lead and keep the team up to persevere through obstacles.

Sophomore year, I was elected team Captain of the Fairfield Union Girls Varsity Soccer team. Even though I was ecstatic to be a leader for the soccer team, I did feel slightly out of place, since there were many girls that were much older than I and wished to uphold a Captain position. I decided it was right for me, as a co-captain, to let the others lead with words, while I,

As I entered my freshman year of year high school, I was very nervous, yet excited to begin deciding my path in life, such as where I wanted to go to college or what job I wanted when I was an adult. At this point, I had some staple skills established, but nothing like I currently have. The year that I decided to try out for the wrestling team, my older brother was a junior at the time and he influenced me to join and said that it was a really fun sport that would help me to grow both physically and mentally.While I hesitated at first, I eventually decided that I would give it a shot. That decision was one of the best decisions I have yet to made. The first practice came, and at the time, it was one of the most

I started off young when I began to like wrestling. I would wrestle with my giant doll of the WWE wrestler Randy Savage. My parents would see me all around the house wrestling with that doll, and everyday they knew I was going to wrestle. As soon as middle school cam along I joined, I wasn’t the best in those years but I still tried my hardest. Then highschool came along, my skill from middle to high school grew tremendously. In 2006, I graduated with three district Championships and two regional Championship titles.

Imagine the pride I felt when Coach Kligman pulled me aside and told me I was to be named Captain. It was one of the biggest honors my fifteen year old self could ever hope to have received as it meant that the team members looked up to me and that coach had faith in my leadership skills. Throughout the season I enjoyed my role by leading by example, demonstrating a positive attitude, motivating the squad and carrying the team members along in our endeavors.The experience has been rewarding, but it also has had its fair share of challenges. The biggest leadership challenge was to keep the team motivated;especially when mistakes were made and during stressful times. I did this by not only walking into every game and each practice excited and ready to go, but being the first to encourage and last to be discouraged.The personal growth I experienced from these challenges was that I learnt to keep things in perspective and to only worry about things that were in my control,such as attitude,effort and preparation. I also grasped how to look at mistakes as learning tools and how to not let the spirit be broken no matter how tough the situation seemed at the

I asked what he was doing and he replied,” Well, Wyatt you know your brother was a wrestler. Do you wanna wrestle?” I told him Yes I would try it. He had me place my signature on a few papers, then practice started the next day. Now my dad also had me sign up for other sports such as baseball and football, but those sports didn’t have the impact that wrestling had on me. Wrestling is an enduring sport. It takes skill, heart, pride, and most of all hard work. I come from a family that thrives on hard work, that’s how I was raised. My love for wrestling turned me into a great athlete. In Junior high I went to state for wrestling and ended up in 16th out of 50 some kids. After I was in high school, I started working harder than I ever have before. My sophomore year I was one win away from being an alternate for the state, then my junior year I acquired state alternate, now it’s my senior year and I can taste it: I want to go to state so bad. The reason for all of my success is behind my dad’s support and push for me to be the best I can be. If it wasn’t for him, wrestling would have never taught me how to be a hard worker and have self discipline.

In the past three years I have had the pleasure to play on a competitive soccer team that is currently in the highest division in Ontario, the Ontario Youth Soccer League. This past season I became the captain of the team and led us through adversity and challenges to the league championship. I have benefited greatly from playing soccer because it has taught me how to cooperate and lead amongst my peers in an elite, competitive environment.

I prepared to put it all on the line in the last match of my youth wrestling career; state finals. Opening ceremonies started one of the biggest moments of my life. The announcer ran through all the names of each wrestler who had worked all day to make it into the championship. Trotting out to the middle of the mat, each athlete shook their opponent's hand and back to the tunnel they went. I reminded myself this was only half my goal as I ran out. I was not meeting my opponent for the first time. I grasped his hand in a way that said "so we meet again". We wrestled in tight matches previous that had not fallen my way, but I was going to make sure the outcome was different as I hustled back to the tunnel. I anxiously waited for what felt like days. Eventually, it was my opportunity to take matters into my own hands. I knew this was when all the endless effort, countless hours, and extreme hardwork would pay off.

We didn’t win the championships, we didn’t even get to play on the field, we lost in the semifinals. Looking back over the four years, I’m still dissapointed that we didn’t win that year, however, I feel it sparked a season of growth for me. It made it so this year, losing at the semi finals didn’t hurt like it would’ve. I feel I was able to enjoy the season like never before. Sure I still think of what we should have done, yet it’s not with a feeling of resentment, instead I just wish I could go back to just play and better myself as a player. Being a captain this year, I feel as though I was able to spread that feeling through my team that we don’t have to be the best to have fun and play the game we all

Earlier this year, I decided to attend a fourteen-day J-Robinson intensive wrestling camp in the Oregon mountains to help reinforce my values of dedication and discipline and to reinvent my definition of hard work. My decision was born out of the desire to prove wrong to those who called me an underachiever, a weakness that I’ve come to terms with and through determination and work, have addressed. Until recently, I would procrastinate when faced with a hard problem set or paper, but now I meet those things head on. I have also promised myself that I will never give up. Nearly twenty people had quit camp, and I was not

It was around 3:30 on a cold winter afternoon, and my brother and I pull up into the Highschool parking lot. As he pulled up to the door of the school, I thanked him for the ride and he sped off to return home. I opened up the doors of the school, and worked my way down the steps, to the wrestling room to weigh in, and wait to leave. As upon entering, I was greeted by other wrestlers roaming the hallways. As I entered, I threw my things down next to someone and sat down. With the butterflies in my stomach starting to emerge, I was still content. The group of us sat in the large room joking around, and talking. Then it was all stunned to a halt when my coach yelled at us to “listen up.” He instructed us to gather our things and get

The children’s event that I decided to attend was located in Washington Heights Library. The Children’s event was called Move and Groove Storytime. It was recommended for children between the ages of 4 -7. I decided to bring along my niece that is 4 years old. At this event there were a lot of toddlers with either their parents or babysitters. The book that the librarian read to the children was a book called Giraffes Can’t Dance written by Giles Andreae. Before the librarian read the book she talked about the Concepts (Conventions) about Print (Early Beginnings, 2009, P.14). She mentioned how the Giles Andreae had other books that she wrote. One of the things that she mentioned to the children and parents was that if they liked the book Giraffes

This was an excellent opportunity to further develop my leadership skills, so I committed myself to contribute time in helping the young athletes. After talking to the team about their needs in improving their performance, we decided to implement an innovative training style. I needed funding for the equipment, so I turned my focus to sponsors and the club president. After months of training with the new equipment and drills, the team finally got to execute their skills at a provincial tournament in which we won gold. This experience taught me that creativity is needed in a leadership role and furthermore, as a leader, one must assess the needs of their team before implementing a plan. Through my coaching, I hope to inspire my team to share my passion towards field hockey and mentor future