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When I first heard the news I was 16 years old. I competed in the 2015 Teakwon-do national championship in Dallas Texas, I did ok I thought but I still finished 2nd so I wasn’t happy with how I competed but I hadn’t been home for more than a week when I got a letter in the mail from the WTA (World Teakwon-do Alliance) it was from Scot McNeely president of the WTA and he wrote in the letter “I watched you’re fight and I really enjoyed it, I would like to invite you to the Team USA try outs because I think you will do well. Talk it over with your parents and get back with me” Immediately I was shocked and so excited because just to get an invitation to the try outs was such an honor in its self so me and my mother talked it over and I got …show more content…

After my mother and I got home I started training harder than I’ve ever trained for a competition before on top of the team work outs we had once a month in Dallas and before I knew it I was waking up to go to the airport to leave for Italy. When I landed in Italy we had to rent a car because the competition was in Roana witch was a village type of town up in the Alps with maybe 500 people who lived there. We got to the arena where the competition was at and it was a huge ice ring that they melted off so we could compete there so after we singed in and they scheduled our fights we had some time to kill before we had to be at the hotel so I walked around and talked to people from all over the world and just that experience alone was worth the trip to have so many people from all over the world there to fight each other get along so well even though not all of us spoke the same language it was still such an amazing thing for me to experience. The morning of my fight came and I woke up early to I could get breakfast and warmed up and have everything done and not be rushed for time, I arrived at the arena in my warm up suit and stayed in the back room and that’s where I got tapped and warmed up and then I had a little Italian guy come get me for my fight because my division was being called and I walk out of the room to the main floor and every

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