Personal Essay : Running In Circles

In all my life, I’ve never had a commitment that required so much of me as track and field, both physically and mentally. Towards the end of my high school career, track and field for me meant having to push through a difficult physical condition known as tarsal coalition, a condition that causes inflammation in my feet. With help from my coaches, I had to learn to endure past physical limitation and strengthen my faith in my abilities. By doing so, I became more confident in myself and I was able to help lead other team members to do the same. Not only did track and field teach me to lead, but it also taught me how to be a part of a team. I learned the value of teamwork through building relay race teams. In all relay races, I was either the

Yet life is strange. Once again, almost expected, I successfully became the tailender in my first track meet. It was a cloudy afternoon, I lied on the central lawn of the asphalt sport ground with my throat full of stifling anxiety and the taste of bitter blood. The soft grasses under me turns into a blanket of pins and needles when I heard other teammates passed by talking about their places in events, and I started to remorse bitterly about why would I humiliate myself one more time with the practical experience, covered my face with my blanket to hide my Buffoonery, till the coach

Laying down in bed the night before the meet was always nerve wracking, wondering who was going to show up to the meet the next day. The drive over to the track was often long and silent. Often thinking of every outcome of each race could drive a runner insane. Finally arriving and seeing all the athletes, spectators, and the crowd. The roar of the announcer echoing through the stadium. I stepped on the track hoping to see a few familiar faces. The cold breeze blowing against my tracksuit. I began to warm up and tuned out

As your school’s most visible athletes your primary role is to build a sense of community and school spirit both on and off the playing field. Whether cheering at games, running a pep rally, hosting visitors, or competing at competition, always conduct yourselves in a manner that bring enthusiasm to your school and unity to your community.

This will help me in the future to remind me to be happy, and grateful for the opportunity to run as I do in my life. This race changed my point of view of “opportunity” to try and do things right the first time, and if I don’t, then forget about it because I can’t change it. Before this race, I felt as if I failed, everything was over, and the disappointment would never leave. For example, if I ran a terrible race, with a terrible time, I couldn't stop thinking about it for WEEKS. Now, I let it go and forget it ever happened. This also keeps me humble, by not letting me think about my accomplishments for too long, because there’s always a new opportunity. Walt Disney once

You are at a game for your least favorite sport to watch. You wouldn’t have come, but you had to because a relative is in the game. You are prepared for two hours of boredom when you hear sudden applause. You turn and see that a cheerleader just did an amazing series of flips. Later you reflect on that afternoon - it was fun. More fun than you expected. All because of the cheerleaders. However, something is not right. Cheerleading is not a sport, but it should be. It should be a sport because it takes all the effort as other sports. It not being a sport is actually dangerous for the cheerleaders. It also unifies the school instead of tearing down teams as the result of losing competitions.

Another baton to hold on to for those incredible years and create memories with all the people you meet. I learned so much from that race that I will take with me for the rest of my life. Most importantly, it didn't matter the time we ran or the place we came in, it mattered that we all did our best and gave it our all. I can't complete something knowing I had more to give, I have one shot in life and I have to make it my best shot. All I can do is my best and nothing better. It's what my parents taught me it's what their parents taught them, in life you can't be successful unless you give it everything you got. Track has taught me so much about myself being that it’s an individual sport. There is no one but me out on that track telling myself to keep going, to make a personal record, and to prove myself to all the people who believed in me when I truly didn’t. I was able to determine my strengths and my weaknesses and it has made me become not only a better athlete, but a better person. I began to focus not on all the people around me, but myself. What I take away is, make the best of every moment because one second and its

Like the invention of the slinky, my story is kind of an accident. I never thought about running as a sport, or that it could be an alternative to soccer, which I had been playing my whole life. It really was an accident that I overheard my mom talking to her friends on the phone about the local race. Sometimes, however, accidents can be good things that become great things, and this was one of those times; I just haven’t realized that until now. Running cross-country is special to me because of the liberation it provided and the greatest friendships that made a huge difference in my life.

School athletic events have always been a place students can show school spirit and bond together. First, school athletic events are a place where students come together and cheer on their school not only to support the team, but also to show other schools that Lexington Local School is bonded together. An example of this was shown during a girls’ soccer OCC tournament; many students came and cheered on the girls throughout the whole game. Not only did they cheer in the stands, but after the winning goal was scored during a shoot-out the entire student section ran down to the middle of the field to help Lexington’s girls soccer celebrate. In that moment the students bonded together and showed the other school that Lexington, as a unit, won, displaying school spirit. Without athletic

The clamor of a gunshot resounds amongst the silent crowd; your feet bounce off the starting blocks, and with a sense of vigor you have never shown before. You soar toward the finish line, only to come in last place. At the end of the track meet, you are bequeathed a medal as a testament to your participation, and a reminder that although you lost you still get a trophy. As the year continues you accumulate a multitude of these awards; you decide that you should stop trying to improve your performance, because after all you still get rewarded when you lose. The track season comes to a close you're given a varsity letter for your participation, and from that moment on you begin to believe that even if you fail you deserve a reward. You go on to live a lackluster never reaching your full potential, and what more could someone ask from you especially since you participated. Toward the last years of your far from spectacular existence, you begin to question where your award for barely living life is, because after all you’ve been taught you always get a prize once you finish a race.

   Abstract:  The Stadium  construction boom continues, and taxpayers are being forced to pay for new high tech stadiums they don’t want.  These new stadiums create only part-time jobs.  Stadiums bring money in exclusively for professional leagues and not the communities.  The teams are turning public money into private profit.  Professional leagues are becoming extremely wealthy at the taxpayers expense.  The publicly-funded stadium obsession must be put to a stop before athletes and coaches become even greedier.  New stadiums being built hurt public schools, and send a message to children that leisure activities are more important than basic education.  Public money

Chino Hills High School just recently had their ESPN themed Winter Sports Rally. Wanting to get some inside information I went to the Activities Director and ASB/ Leadership teacher, Mrs. Chiotti for an interview. Starting off with an easy question, I asked, what was her favorite winter sport? She told me that she loved all of the sports, and that she didn’t have a favorite sport, but she did say that track was close to her heart, because that is what she used to do. Leaning more to the topic of the rally, we discussed her favorite part of any rally. She stated, “ I think that I really enjoy the games and performances, because that’s when the crowd get’s the most excited.” For this rally, Mrs.Chiotti said that they started preparations, two

In the novel, The Circle, Dave Eggers creates a future society centered on money and power from digital innovation. Mae Holland, the determined protagonist from a humble beginnings, receives an opportunity to gain high status within the company but faces the challenge of managing the loss of her human privacy in a technologically advancing community. By applying ideas like technological determinism and McDonaldization to the Circle’s intrusive security measures and inauthentic interaction, Eggers draws a direct parallel to America’s modern society and forces the readers to question the possible dystopian implications of a technocentric culture.

According to George Bernard Shaw, the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. The novel The Circle by Dave Eggers tells us a story about the main character, Mae Holland, and her journey through the company Circle. The company Circle have the most futuristic-like advancements in technology. Mae Holland’s dream is to work at the Circle because she dreaded her previous job at a run-down utility company. Holland is introverted and before working at the Circle, her life was not consumed with technology. She slowly assimilates with the Circle’s rules and regulations and therefore encounter a problem with situations she has never experienced before. Holland did not meet the expectations of the Circle’s requirements

One by one, we unloaded the bus, bags and all. Boys, girls and coaches haul bags and coolers and blankets and I take up the rear of the pack. The day is a cold one, the wind is blowing but the sun is shining down through the clouds. The team crosses the rubber-like track and onto the infield surrounded by the track. Blankets are laid across the green grass for bags to be set down and runners to rest on between and before races. All around the field, opposing teams linger and warm up for competition. In the middle of the field, a