Mcfarland Usa Analysis

When I started track and middle I never knew what track was or how it even worked but I needed a sport that I could do. Even though I would have people from my middle school who would try to discourage me from running and even call me slow and the process but I continue to go through with track. But those people that talk and say they were going stay and track but didn't and I stayed and continue running and learn how to use the words they called to me to discourage to fuel my running to where I was winning medals and showing it in school. Then between eight grade to tenth grade I begin to have problem with my hip and which cause me to slow my time down but I still stayed in the sport. Even switching from different high school was tiring

McFarland USA is a Disney sports movie based on a true story. The movie begins with Coach Jim White losing his temper with a football player and hurts him. After the incident, he is fired and moves with his family to a McFarland, California. McFarland is predominantly a Latino migrant community. He is hired as the high school P.E coach and notices the potential several of his migrant students have in running. He then decides to from a cross-country team, in the beginning the students are hesitant to join the team because they help their families in waking up early to pick produce. Coach White is persistent and the students decide to join the team. Once the parents see how Coach White is willing to work with their children they become very supportive. The cross-country team changes the students’ life forever and allows the students to obtain the American Dream. This movie was very uplifting and demonstrated the importance of family, education,

When I first joined cross country I was not fast nor a runner. I was one of the slowest people on the team, but I wanted to get faster and I was determined to improve. Some days we would do a hills workout and I would get to the top of the longest hill and think, “I could just run back to Armstrong right now and be done”. But then, I thought about how if I did another hill, I would get better and some time during a race when there was a big hill I would look at it like it’s nothing. I could go up the hill easily and pass a couple girls. So I would do another hill. Then the next time we did hills I rememberd how many I did the last time and pushed myself to do one more. Through that cross country showed me that I could be faster and tougher than I thought I was if I put in the effort and want it

A week before I decided to quit gymnastics I was discussing with my family and friends that I wanted to join cross country. It was the beginning of ninth grade and I was not enjoying gymnastics as much as I used to. I didn’t want to quit entirely because I was progressing my skills on beam and vault, but at the same time the sport became too much to handle. I also knew that if I wanted to run cross country that I would not be able to do gymnastics since the sport required me to drive up to Lincoln four to five times a week. Deciding whether to

This is becasuse the cross country team started at rock bottom and they were able to rise to the very top. The movie is not only about cross country, it showcases some major issues in Latino communites. At the beginning if the movie White and his family are almost scared out of the town by its citizens. Stereotypes of gang members were almost impossible not to think of and showcased the many misconceptions Latinos must deal with. At one point in the film, one of the boys joked that Danny Diaz’s running is “slower than 911 to a Mexican’s house”. This shows how the Latino community is more than aware about their little worth in the eyes of the more privileged Americans. One of the main themes of the movie is that of true family and community. The Latinos in the film truly valued their relationships with others. As was mentioned before, a neighbor offered a chicken and a store owner offered a coke. Some of the boys had to quit the cross country team in order to help their family. In addition, the boys perceiveds the students from the others as obnoxiously privileged. This would explain why Vallaz was so upset to lose to them during the first cross country meet. He didn’t just lose the race is symbolized the marginalization many immigrants

I wasn’t always a runner. Some kids are born into the running cult, but not me. We have a treadmill in our basement that my parents occasionally use when they got on a health kick, but neither of them pushed me to be a runner. During the summer of sixth grade, my mother was talking to our neighbor in our driveway. While they were standing on the blistering pavement, the subject of Cross Country came up. My neighbor’s son was on the high school team and it was doing a

I had no experience as a runner nor did I have the form. This did not phase me however. That year I promised myself to push through all the six mile runs, sore legs, gnarly blisters, and at times, lack of oxygen. At every meet and speed workout practice I pushed myself further and further. I set a goal every time I kicked off from the starting line and never let myself get discouraged when I failed. By my senior year, I was the fourth fastest runner on varsity. That year our varsity team won the district meet, which qualified us to run in the 2016 state meet in Oregon. The transformation over the years were evident. My determination to accomplish my goal of becoming a faster runner was complete. If I had simply just given up that first day of practice, I wouldn't have ran along side of the fastest runners in Oregon or have met the multitude of people that are now my closest friends. Having a goal sets one up for a challenge, whether it being physically or mentally, goals keep us active and thinking in more ways than one. Still, if someone has self-control, confidence, and a goal, they are still not complete.

American junior student-athletes when compared to other high school junior student-athletes at one Alabama high school.

All you need is love and a nice long run. Are you one of these gallopers? Well, if the answer is yes, then that’s great to hear! All the naysayers may politely stop reading. All right, back to our benevolent runners.

The transition to an affluent Southern California wine and horse region from a developing nation might appear to be difficult, but Dunn School, although small, is dedicated to diversity, with student and student-athletes from around the world.

The history is based on a group of teenagers that not have prospects of life, they live in McFarland which is place without opportunities to progress, the economy and the quality of life are deplorable, and no one is going to be better. Jim White who is an American Football coach, arrives to the school because he had problems in his previous job for his ideas.

After another great year of running and training, Chino Hill’s Cross-Country team ended with an amazing season. Throughout all the hard-core training and rigorous races, both the boy's and girl's teams had successful results. Injuries had been a recurring problem, as some runners didn't train during the summer. Despite struggles and injuries that had occurred throughout the season, there were many improvements and achievements in the team. In League the Girl’s Varsity Team won first, and the Boy's Varsity Team achieved second. The Boy’s JV, Frosh/Sophomore, as well as the Girl's JV placed second. In Boy's Varsity the top runners were, Andrew Arvizu, Jake Bergmann, and Noah Rehfeldt, and the Girl's Varsity the top runners were, Rachele Sunagawa,

Do you ever look at the high school cross country team and think they look just like MT’s cross country team. Sometimes you can but sometimes not. That's because both teams share things in common but have lots of differences. They are full of different ages and separate their team in different ways. But they both love to practice after school and welcome anyone on to the team.

In 2013 Dan Earhart while walking by his local high school athletic field in Chiloquin, Oregon noticed the track team training without a coach. Dan reflects, “I thought to myself, how will they ever get any better?” Dan discovered the school had a track program but couldn’t afford a track coach, so Dan stepped up. “Our first year we sent eight out of twenty students to state.”

At the beginning of 6th grade in cross country I was really slow like 9 or 10 minute miles one of the slowest on the team and every time I went to a meet I would finish around last or dead last but even then all my teammates and coaches would cheer me on at the end and from that I would kick it in at the end and I would wheeze and wheeze when I passed the finish line and even though I got last everybody still congratulated me and it made me feel good about what I did even if I did run a 16 minute mile and a half. The people that made me especially feel good was coach Renberg and Coach Stern They would be the most encouraging at the end of races they would cheer and yell “Come on Michael the finish is right around the corner” and “Go you got