Personal Narrative: A Career In Sports

Florence Joyner also known as “Flo Jo” was born as Florence Delorez Griffith on December 21st, 1959 in Los Angeles, California (Biography.com Editors, “Florence Joyner Biography”, The Biography.com website). In 1987 Florence Griffith married her spouse Al Joyner which was a fellow athlete and the brother of famed athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Biography.com Editors, “Florence Joyner Biography”, The Biography.com website). Florence broke records and even set records due to the speed that she carried with her. Later on in her career she and her coach Bob Kersee were under the media speculations because a rumor was out that she she was using performance enhancing drugs to improve her times (Biography.com Editors, “Florence Joyner Biography”, The Biography.com website). In september of 1998 at the age of 38 Joyner died unexpectedly after suffering from an epileptic seizure(Biography.com Editors, “Florence Joyner Biography”, The Biography.com website).

Mary Thereza Decker-Slaney was born on August 4th, 1958 in Flemington, New Jersey. When she was just 14 years old, she was known as “Little Mary Decker” for winning the 800m at a US-Soviet meet(The). At 15 years old she broke indoor records in the 1000 and 800 meter. After a few years off due to injuries, Decker came back in 1979 and won a gold medal at the Pan-American Games in the 1,500. Mary Decker has been one of the greatest American female middle distance and distance runner. She was voted “Track & Field News Female Athlete of the Year for 1983 and Sports Illustrated's Sportswoman of the Year”(Mary).

Picture yourself as a little kid dreamy about all the things you want to be when you grow up. Jackie had a big dream to be in the Olympics when she watched the Summer Olympics in 1976. When Jackie was in college her mother died from meningitis and from that point on Jackie was determined to be the greatest. Soon later she found herself at the Olympics, Jackie become the world’s best female athlete to walk the earth. According to Jone Johnson Lewis in Life of

The modern Olympic movement was shaped through the soaring advocation of women’s rights (2, 8). An anonymous photographer (#2), in the 1908 Olympic games held in Great Britain where only 2 percent of women participated in the games, presents a photograph of Sybil Newall, a female British competitor at the games, and advocates women participating in the games. This photographer might have this view because he or she is a feminist that took place in the women suffrage movement and is baffled that solely two percent of athletes were women, and is urging the Olympics to make a great change. Hassiva Boulmerka (#8), an Algerian competitor that engaged in the 1992 games held in Spain where 29 percent of the athletes were women, believes that every woman has the ability of becoming an athlete, and must strengthen their mind and conscious, not just their body, to overcome these social challenges. Boulmerka, as a woman participant, may have this belief because she has underwent these obstacles as well, and wishes to motivate women in Spain to have the will and determination to overcome them and become a female athlete like herself. A good additional document that would better our understanding of how this social

Billie Jean King paved the way for current professional women athletes when she co-organized the Virginia Slims tournament for administrative control and to raise salaries. Once, she beat Bobby Riggs

Women gradually were overcoming disadvantages they had dealt with for years and years. Now that women could participate in sports and when they did they exceeded, higher expectations were slowly becoming a norm. Faster times were expected for women’s running events such as eleven to twelve seconds. Higher and longer heights were set for long jump, triple jump, and high jump. Long jump went from five feet to six feet three inches, triple jump went from thirty to thirty- four feet, and high jump went from four feet six inches to six feet. .Throwing further distances went from fifteen feet to thirty feet rapidly. These events became increasingly difficult due to women proving their physical ability more and

It was just another school night in the seventh grade. Our recreational tackle football team had a practice at 730pm until 9. It was a very swampy night and from that I felt myself very sluggish. At the time, I was a backup running back. I was always left on the sidelines facing the chills of the cold wind during games. I typically didn’t get to see much playing time on the field, but that night I got my opportunity. I was receiving kicks during a punting audition and all I was doing was catching the ball and throwing it back, nothing unique. One throw after another, my coach began to praise my arm strength. Seeing me pass the ball was a true eye-opener. That night, I went from a backup running back, to the starting quarterback of my rec

Fanny Blankers-Koen was born in the Netherlands on April 26, 1918. As a teenager she won a Dutch National Championship in the 800 meter run. She participated in her first Olympic Games in 1936. However, she did not take home any medals. She could not wait to try again at the next Olympics. When the next Olympic Games came around, people told Fanny she could not compete because of her age. She also received criticism from people who thought she should stay home and take care of her two children. If she left to compete, some thought of her as a failure of a mother and wife. Despite people telling her she could not do it, Fanny started training and at the age of thirty participated in her second Olympic Games.

When you 're a female athlete victory doesn 't have the same bite ,there is a certain lackluster and supressment in winning that many female athletes can attest to.Burton Nelson defines femininity as “non competitive,non ruthless,not victorious”,female athletes can not want to win with all their “heart” and “ souls”.In her writing “I won.I’m Sorry”,she accounts for not only the grievances that she herself faced as a female in a gendered society but also ones that professional female athletes have to go through.Burton Nelson starts of her narrative with an anecdote on Sylvia Plath,a well known poet noted for committing suicide. Nelson makes use of Sylvia 's letter to her mother Aurelia Platt,her tendency to cater to men and her spelling bee contest to help keep her argument composed and clear.She uses these events to frame her ideas that women in sports aren 't’ accepted in society unless they have grace in defeat,society requiring women in sports to achieve in a emphasized feminine manner and female athletes need to catering to their male counterparts ego.

There still was a belief that women were too frail physically and mentally to participate in intense competition like Olympics. However, in 1932, Mildred “ Babe” Didrikson disproved this belief by winning two Olympic gold medals and one silver medal in track and field. She had also won every golf tournament she competed in. Her great victories influenced the acceptance of

It was a warm summer morning on August 28, 1998 when my mother went into Sioux Valley hospital to give birth to a baby boy. After an agonizing 15 hours in labor, I was born. They named me Bryce meaning “Nobel One.” My full name was Bryce Jay Edberg, I got this middle name after my father, which his middle name was also Jay. Being born at exactly 4:03 a.m., with a staggering 23 inch body and weighing 10 lb 4oz the delivery was nothing less then painful.

Many student athletes at Kennedy have played a sport throughout all four years in high school, and many don’t plan to continue their experience after they graduate. Towards the end of high school, student athletes are faced with the dilemma where the high school sport they have played, will be continued in college or parted with.

My passion to establish a career in the sport industry has only grown stronger as gain more experience in the field. My work experience has given me many transferrable skills that are preparing me for a job after graduation. Among these skills stands one that is essential to any job in general, but is especially important in the sport industry because of the high level of public and media attention that sports receive in this country.

It was February 28 , 2015. I was already on my way to Idaho championships before I knew it our team was there. At first I was incredibly terrified because of how many swimmers were there. After warm-ups with my teammates the races began, I swan my 100-meter butterfly, 100-meter freestyle, and my sprint 50-meter freestyle was close by. Usually I’m not nervous while doing this particular race but today is different. I will be racing 16 year olds while I’m only 14. Ten minutes before the race I explained to my coach that I was not feeling well but my coach looked at me and said “Maddy you are very much capable of getting first place, if you believe in yourself anything is possible.”

In recent times, it has become abundantly clear that female athletes have long manifested and