My Story Continues

Participating in sports has led me to the career of physical therapy. I have been an athlete all of my life. I have played every sport from tackle football to softball and every sport the community of Sitka offered. Being involved in several sports at one time helped me realize how easy it is to get injured and how crucial it is to have a physician that is supportive and understands an athletes injuries. By going to McKendree University I will be able to become a physical therapist and help injured athletes recover.

Playing sports in high school and college helps athletes build strong character traits and good habits that will help them throughout their lives. Athletes understand the importance of being on time, working hard, not giving up, and working as a team. All of these things help athletes become better people. Many employers like to hire former athletes because these character traits make for great

College is an important place that can lead us to a bright and successful future. College success is more than academics; for us it’s learning how to become an adult for the first time in our life. In college we will develop skills to have relationships with professors, counselors, and with our peers. The whole college experience enables us to truly succeed. Meeting new people, becoming acquainted to different ideas and cultures, and mostly, the enjoyment of the four plus years of being in school. A couple of years from now we will look back at college as either one of the best or worst times of our lives. The one thing that motivates people to go to college is “career

My Career is going to be a football player and be a lineman for the saints in the NFL. I plan to achieve this goal be playing as hard as I can in high school and college and hope I will be drafted to the saints. I plan to achieve this goal by 2025.

My family was a foster family, and that meant that I became a role-model at a young age. Our first foster placement, Derek, came into my room one evening with tears in his eyes asking me for help with his homework. I had testing at school the next day but that evening, I sat at the table for 3 hours to help him understand every concept in his English packet- that was the evening that I knew I wanted to become a teacher.

The biggest reason why I wanted to attend college was for sports. I wanted to go into a great program with great people. My parents told me that lacrosse was a perk for college but the education portion was most important. I believe my coach Zach Nedbalski was a huge inspiration for my appearance here at Methodist University. When I was on my visit at Methodist, Zach made me feel at home with comforting words and his presence was very warming. He introduced me to the lacrosse

College is a chance to be free and is a bridge between the real world and school. I’m an adult and expected to behave as such; I make my own choices where I have to decide what is important to me. I have an opportunity to learn how the world works, to explore the limitless possibilities and a chance to admire how vast knowledge can be. College will change my life in the way that I can develop life skills outside academics, to be fully

Nothing means more to me than spending quality time on Sundays with my family, sitting on the couch and watching football. Even as a young kid, before I knew the names of the teams my Dad would say, “We’re rooting for the blue team!” I had no idea what was going on but I was so interested by the game that I would cheer and yell whenever my Dad would. This natural attention to this great game gave me the desire to prepare myself to eventually join a team. I learned how to motivate myself to workout, study plays and annoy my Dad enough to throw a ball with me in the backyard. I felt it was my purpose in life to become a professional and play football as

Participating in athletics influenced my career goals because finally realizing that I love sports and want to be involved with sports when I graduate so that way there always apart of my life when I get older. Playing football my senior year made me realize that I was going to miss it, that made me want to do something that would involve sports like being a coach or even an athletic trainer. Also participating in athletics influenced my career goals by working with teammates, like in football. Because football is that sport where all 11 people on the field have to go 110% and never give up and helps you communicate with your teammates either on

I have dreamt of many goals that I want to achieve in the next ten years. Competing on a Chapter Conducting state team for four years led me to choose an educational degree in AG Communications. With an Ag Communications degree, I dream of pursuing a career in Sports broadcasting. The career, educational, and personal goals that I have set for myself will hopefully take me far in life.

Throughout the years more and more students are looking up to college and pro athletes, yearning to be just like them. These athletes work to have such high skill levels that “regular” people just can’t compare to. Some of their skill levels include, running speeds as fast as cars, jumping unimaginable heights, and being overall a powerful person. Having these skills and performing them is only part of what athletes do on a daily basis. Most people don't have knowledge of the other parts that college athletes have to deal with; school work, fans, career ending injuries and more! As these aspiring student athletes grow and learn what really goes on off the field, many feel differently and change their dreams because they are just not made for

Instead of feeling pressure to conform as a student at the University of Georgia, I have found that being in college has made me value the importance of a higher education more so than I ever had before. During high school, my primary goal was to play well enough to receive a football scholarship. At that time, my focus was not on academics. However, since I've arrived at the University of Georgia, my entire concept of the value of a college degree has slowly changed. Rather than seeing just football in my future, I can now picture myself as a football player with a college degree. Consequently, instead of having a negative impact on my personal growth, college has helped me broaden as a person.

I have many personal goals that I hope to accomplish during and after my college education experience. One of my main goals is to carry the community service projects I have been participating in to college. I would love to work with cancer patients, tutor children at a local school, teach a Sunday School class at a local church, work with Habitat for Humanity, and countless other activities. I know that I probably will not have time to accomplish all the goals that I have for college, but I know I can conquer some of them, and I will.

Playing football has had the most impact on the development of my character. I started playing football when I was 5 years old. Playing football has taught me many valuable lessons. While playing football, I have better understood the values of hard work. Football taught me that the only way to succeed in something is by working harder than anyone else. Football has also taught me that when working with a team, everybody has an important role and if one person slacks off it hurts the entire team. There is no “I” in team and teamwork is a valuable life lesson. Whenever teammates are focused on individual accomplishments, instead of the team’s success, the team as a whole does not perform as well. I have learned through this that when you

In football, our coaching staff drilled into our minds that it [football] is nothing more than a stepping stone. Furthermore, it helped me to develop characteristics that will benefit me all throughout my adult life. It taught me to be honest, patient, loyal, dedicated, decent, and how to work hard. It showed me that in order to perform at the best that I could be, I would need to choose what offered the best result. That result may not have shown immediately, but it always came. It showed me that much was required of me, such as sufficient grades and following training policies, before I could be given my chance to