How To Write A Personal Narrative About An Experience From High School

Throughout high school and undergraduate studies, I have tried to achieve academic excellence, improve my athletic abilities and become a better employee at a law firm. Although several experiences have shaped me as an individual, I believe that wrestling set the foundation for most of my improvements and accomplishments. I first started practicing wrestling when I was six years old and competing when I was nine. Although I was training four times a week, I failed to win anything for several years. I became less confident in my abilities, but I did not give up on the sport. I wanted to prove to myself that I can compete for medals with other athletes. Poor performances motivated me to work harder in practices, spectate older wrestlers and exercise

I constantly faced the thought of quitting because my brothers always received the tangible rewards from wrestling while mine came with the recognition of a seating position My performances and practice would always collide with theirs causing many sacrifices on both ends. However, my love for the arts became apparent to my parents as I was granted admission to Cab Calloway School of the Arts. Growing up in a different school environment than my brothers allowed me to create my own identity and take up new opportunities without the stress of comparison. I explored other outlets such as dance and fell in love. I developed an interest in sharing my talents and teaching others rather than pleasing my

Coaching wrestling has been, and continues to be, one of the most meaningful and heartfelt experiences of my life. Wrestling has helped define my personal character, teaching me discipline, and enabling optimal performance under pressure and stress. I am grateful for the opportunity to pass this on to other student-athletes. The impact I have on their lives, as well as the one they have on mine, transcends the competition of sport. Simultaneously, I progress as a leader and role model, while they develop character and work ethic as young adults. I have been there for these athletes since the beginning of their high school career. Witnessing and being a part of their evolution has been an amazing experience. Whether it’s the smile on their face

The sport of wrestling became my entire life when I was eight years old and it is the reason I am the man you see today. Wrestling helped me discover who I am as a person, and it is also a big factor in the career path that I am on today. There are countless times during my wrestling career that have been life lessons and eye openers to me, one incident that stands out from the rest was the first wrestling tournament of the season.

I began wrestling since my freshman year of high school, as I have always wanted to wrestle. I did not necessarily at the sport, but I enjoyed it. I earned medals and won tournaments, and for a time I even saw myself wrestling in college. I thought that I had my future planned until I dislocated my knee. I first viewed the incident as a freak accident, but it soon happened frequently. It reached to the point where I required invasive surgery. Mulling over my surgery and repeated injuries, I concluded that wrestling became too dangerous. But I committed myself to wrestling; I had no idea what else to do. Desperate to find an activity to fill the void that athletics left behind, I decided to try something outside of my comfort zone. As a result,

The Truth about wrestling is that it's tougher than it looks for sure. I’ve been doing to for about three years now and well it's been the best thing to happen to me. When you're a freshman in high school coming out of a failed football season. And your friends talking you into doing wrestling. Well I was hooked by the awesome time and funny atmosphere back in freshman the team was fun and the seniors were even better. Out of the three captains Jamie, Mike, Brody. Jamie and Brody were the best and they knew just about every move their was. I will always look back to my freshman year in wrestling because there hasn't been a year like it since. Though it was tough always going out there and wrestling a senior or Junior, I never really care about

Dan Gable once said, “Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” (Dan Gable). I agree with this quote because truly everything else I have done in life is much easier. When you have entered on the mat and u =you are wrestling for four minutes using all your strength and energy is pretty hard to do.

As a member of the wrestling team, I developed the physical toughness to become a member of the U.S. armed services. There, I learned what hard work was. After running as a team for miles on end, we moved to the mats to work on individual technique. We wrestled and struggled till we couldn't move. It was more about outlasting the other guy for six minutes straight in a true match, therefore the guy most in shape won. When the coach

My most favorite sport is wrestling. It is one of the hardest and greatest sports out there. It strengthens athletes while also building their character. When I first started wrestling in high school, I wasn’t the strongest, fastest, or toughest wrestler on the team. With the help and guidance of my coaches and teammates, I was able to become one of the top wrestlers at my high school. Through my high school career, I have had some impressive comeback wins, was voted as team captain my junior and senior year, hold school records, and qualified for the state tournament my senior year. After graduating high school I still wanted to continue my wrestling career. I am currently wrestling for the Wayne State Wrestling Club and plan to wrestle for

My freshman and sophomore year of high school I went to Liberty where I decided I was going to try out for the wrestling team, from there on I only lost eleven matches out of sixty one matches I would end up winning districts both years. Our wrestling team had head coaches that had a culture of winning and competing, as well as having State Champions wrestlers who truly loved wrestling. Then junior year came and I was forced to change schools to attend Independence where I had no one to practice with, plus having a brand new head coach, which had been given only three wrestlers and the rest students that have never wrestled before causing limits on the amount of wrestling concepts that are learned so in result practice ends up being a

In the beginning, I was not very good. I lacked the strength, confidence, and experience necessary for success. I also did not have much competition to work with because as a fifth grader, I only weighed around 50 to 60 pounds. My entire first two seasons consisted of less than ten matches, most of which I lost. My third season, I had finally grown to a common weight and had the opportunity to wrestle more than in previous seasons. I ended up finishing the season with a record of one win, twenty-seven losses. This seems

You glance at your opponent trying not to stare at him. You concentrate all you attention on the opponent, from his headgear, all the way down to his shoes. You try to help yourself to think positive, but your mind can’t get off the fact that he “looks” like a better wrestler. As your name is called for the match, your heart begins sinking. You make your way to the center of the wrestling match and face your opponent. The referee blows his whistle and you begin attacking and defending. Within the first few minutes you are physically drained, your muscles are aching and slowing down as they need a break. You keep pushing and don’t stop. As the match comes to an end and you take the victory. The feeling of pride and accomplishment rushes through your blood and suddenly your muscles feel fully rested and ready for your next

Well it all started like 2013 I wrestled for Sublette and I wasn't doing to good so I moved to Garden City for wrestling and it was hard at first but then after doing it for awhile I got better and went to state for the first time at Topeka, KS and got first place! It felt amazing. I couldn't believe it. Then the next year came I set my goals to win state again so we trained and trained. After the regular season went though it was state again I was very nervous.

Wrestling has been a huge aspect and a great experience of my high school career. Wrestling has taught me a lot over the past three years from hard work all the way to ethics. But the most important thing has taught me morph my failure into success. That with hard work anything may be achieved. My freshman year I was really overweight and could not keep up with any of the intense exercises we would do. I did not win a single match all year and basically did not improve all year. The worst part is that some of my wrestling peers told me to just quit. That I would never improve and not do well at the sport.I seriously contemplated every day during wrestling season and after if I wanted to continue the sport. I would constantly hear my peers "you

mr. Averill the head wrestling coach ask me to join the wrestling team. which at first I thought was weird being a single it in front of a whole bunch of people wrestling a guy who's in a single just like me. what I said why not there was no tryouts and no support to keep me out of trouble. so just like football and basketball I showed up to practice and mess around,until we got to our first dual of the year. I can just remember how excited I just get on the mat and use all the moves that we have been practicing on and practice but then I sat and I thought what have I learned in practice and I could not remember I learned in