My College Experience : My Experience In Leadership

After a short-lived and unimpressive career on the basketball team the previous year, I joined the track team with hopes of fulfilling my dreams of being a varsity athlete. Though determined, I was undersized in both

I am Pursuing a bachelor's degree in Sports management and a double minor in leadership and religion. Currently, I am working in the Athletic Department; my focus is mainly Game Operations, but I also work Game Administration, Event Management, Athletic Communications, etc. I highly enjoy what I do and work hard in everything that I do. After graduation, I hope to be a graduate assistant in an athletic department and earn my

It was opening night for our football team, a chilly night in September against one of our rivals, the Nickerson Panthers. The stands were packed like a can of sardines. Our team had been ruling the scoreboard all night, but now the panthers were in the red zone threatening to score. Three years ago we wouldn’t have had a chance against this team, but now we had the upper hand. Through the weightlifting program and improvement of team building, success is inevitable. Our football team is a great example of how hard work and great leadership not only pull a group of kids, but also a whole community together.

Ever since i’d moved to John McCrae Senior Public School in grade 5 it had been my dream to compete in the 100 meter sprint at Birchmount Stadium. So when the opportunity to qualify to go to Birchmount was approaching I didn’t leave it up to fate. I trained for a week to make sure that I was ready for the tryout.

Athletics played a large role in my life growing up. During my senior year of high school, I transferred to a new school where I intended to play football. However, during the last practice before the season started, I developed a stress fracture which caused me to miss our first four games. I was a few inches taller than six feet, and weighed around two hundred and twenty pounds, which made me one of the biggest guys at the small private school I attended. The time I spent recovering from my injury provided ample time for me to ponder what I would learn from the experience. My brother is three years older than me, which allowed me to have relationships with individuals who were living my potential future. I began to seek advice from friends

I was a late-comer to athletics. So when the distance coach recruited me in tenth grade, it was a pleasant surprise to be half decent. I was deemed the most improved cross country runner in the nation, dropping six minutes for a 4K, landing me in my first state race. I have since been a contributing part of my varsity team. I have been All-Conference and All-Section for the past three years. This past year, my cross country team won state and nationals. I, myself, was runner-up in the team division at nationals. In Track and Field, I also competed at state. Running has become a huge part of my life, teaching me many lessons, especially that there is always room for

By being involved with this great duty, my pride, perseverance, and knowledge will increase. Taking dual courses enables me to understand that obstacles are not easy to overcome, but it can be done through hard work. I see the Academy as a once in a life time experience, an achievement that will be with me for the rest of my life. The Air Force Academy contains a diverse environment which demands maturity and a strong positive attitude, characteristics I believe I possess. Furthermore, the Academy will allow to obtain utmost knowledge through education and experiences. The Air Force's honor code is one of the main reasons I want to join. To do the right thing and live honorably has enormous importance in my life. This code creates a trusting environment that cannot be compared to any other. Graduating from an Academy will be one of, if not the most honorable accomplishments in my

- During the AIM summer program, I expect to get the full understanding of what it is like to be a cadet at the academy. The AIM summer program will help me better myself, whether as a student, athlete, or American. All throughout the program, I expect to be pushed to my limits in both ways, being physically and mentally. I hope that I do get accepted into AIM for a number of reasons, First: I expect to push myself to the fullest potential, and I understand that attending the summer program will only benefit me in the future whether I get accepted into the academy or not. Second: I expect to get a full understanding of the coast guard and how it stresses the importance of the safety of the American people. Third: I expect to see if the academy

Hello, I am Cadet Senior Chief Petty Officer Lisjaneidys Colon. As the highest ranking noncommissioned officer I am the mentor of the unit or as some call it the “big sister” to all cadets. This is my fourth year in JROTC. I spent my first year in the army unit at East High School and transferred to Service High School my sophomore year. My future goal is to help people by joining the medical field. I also strive to be completely fluent in four languages. I love jokes, music, and Target runs. Lastly, I will give my best effort to improve the unit as much as possible.

I will graduate from William G Enloe Magnet High School as a 4-year member of the JROTC program, finishing as the Battalion Commander, and a member of the National Technical Honor Society. Upon graduation, I will attend Campbell University. At Campbell University, I am looking at two paths: (1) majoring in Criminal Justice with a Concentration in Law and (2) majoring in Education and returning to my community to teach and mentor and eventually becoming an administrator. Also, while at Campbell University, I will enroll in the ROTC program in hopes of receiving and Active Duty commission and applying to the FLEP to become a JAG Officer. Along with serving in the U.S Army I plan to open my own bakery or to partner

According to Hans Urs von Balthasar “a vocation is something lived, something enacted and a concrete life story” (Contino, 2004, p. 85). My vocational life story has developed over the past forty years with my first job at twelve babysitting six children to where I stand today teaching home economics at Chowchilla high school. “I build my own life story through the decisions of projects I undertake” and the choices I have made regarding my career path (Contino, 2004, p. 85). Someone looking from the outside at my wandering path might believe of my career changes seem a bit radical. Moving bicoastal, leaving a stable career of twenty five plus years to go back to college, take a pay cut and joining the unstable labor market of Home

Before this class, I had a very primitive and vague definition of leadership. Not only did I define it as per my views and ideologies, but I also said that each individual has their own definition of leadership. My initial belief was that leadership does not have a clear cut definition, but there were well defined leadership traits which made an individual. I also initially believed that personal traits did not translate into leadership traits with no strong correlation. After going through the various modules this class offered, it is safe to say that I have significantly redefined leadership and underwent a strong personal assessment. This paper talks what I took back from each of the class activities, assignments and how my self-assessment compares to the perception of others.

Describe a specific example(s) of your personal growth and development through your leadership experiences in college. See the help text for additional direction.

Throughout high school, I have never rued the day I joined football, because it has pushed me to be the best student I could possibly be. Since I have joined I have been taught the philosophy of a student-athlete. That philosophy is that I need to be passing my classes with flying colors in order to play, because being “a football player” does not mean football is my only priority. Every three weeks my football class wants an average of all my classes I am currently taking, so that if I am failing I can go to that class to pick up my grade. Thankfully that has never been the case for me. Matter of fact for the past two years I have been “1st Team All-District Academic”, which means that I have had an average of a 90% in my classes during football season. In addition to being a student, being an athlete has helped me tremendously when it comes to being in physical shape. Before joining I was believe it or not twenty pounds overweight! However, the past three years I have slowly but assertively dropped all that weight and then some. In the process of doing that I gained a lot of muscle credited to all the football workouts I have done. This will benefit me when I get older, because it will be easier for me to work out since I am already familiarized with

The purpose of this personal assessment is to devalue an incident in which I believe I performed my very best, within my leadership capability, according to organizational policies, and lawful regulatory compliance while protecting cultural competence and our organization from any legal repercussions. Business environment will continue evolve and it is pivotal to the success of the organization that all potential leaders acquire the fundamentals of understanding human behaviors within a multicultural atmosphere. Different situations will arise in which leadership will need to focus on the many aspects of one’s personal beliefs, culture as a whole, and productivity at the least. What is evident is the diversity within