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Football Drill Essay

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For as long as I can remember, athletics have been a part of my life. I am an athlete who will put my everything into trying to be better. I’ve always been a shy person, but the field was where I was the most confident and I could be myself. That was until my junior year of high school, when a coach took the athlete inside me and turned it into a broken player who ended up hating the sport she loved. I had seen him hurt people before me, but I absolutely loved the sport so I thought I could handle it. Boy was I wrong. It shouldn’t have been like that. Practice, otherwise known as stupid drills that helped no one and lots of unnecessary yelling, made my afternoons awful. I actually enjoyed going to practice with each of the coaches before …show more content…

I was fighting back tears because of the way he constantly tore me down. A some point, I couldn’t take it anymore. At practice one day, Coach had us doing a drill that wasn’t very well thought out, so naturally we couldn’t do it right, so he began yelling at us. Some tried to explain how we could fix it to make it better, but he liked to make it very clear that he had authority over us, and wouldn’t let us speak. “I don’t care.” was repeated anytime we tried to voice ourselves. I tried to get him to understand what the others were trying to say, but he yelled at me for being “rude” and “disrespectful” and I wasn’t going to stand there and take it so I walked off the field, tears running down my face. I never told an adult until that practice. I know that I should have, but something stopped me, i just don’t know what. Meetings were set up, investigations, the whole nine yards. It was chaotic, but worth it. Even though the season was over, I knew that if I didn’t do something, no one would and no one deserves to go through what I did. There needed to be a change, so that is exactly what I made

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