Personal Narrative Essay: My Life In High School

As a wrestler myself, I want to be the best I can be. Therefor I have to commit to it. Employers often look to hire wrestlers because we are dedicated and do anything we need to do to the best of our ability. If a wrestler chose to be a ditch digger for a living, he would be the best and most dedicated ditch digger ever.

The reason why I like wrestling as much as I do is because there aren’t really favorites in wrestling, like there are in other sports. In wrestling if a coach has a favorite and that wrestler is J.V. there is nothing that coaches can do to make that wrestler a Varsity wrestler. Unlike, say Baseball if a player's dad is a coach, that player will most likely be a starter or play quite often, even if he isn’t that good. In wrestling you have to work for what you want, if you don't think you won't be where you wanna be. This lesson will help me later in life by showing me to work for what I would like, because if I won't push for that then I might regret it for the rest of my life.

My time on the mat was not always that of heart break. Going through elementary I never had a losing season, let alone a season where I lost more than five matches. In fifth and sixth grade I took place in NYWA and Gopher State. Gopher State is a tournament for the top wrestlers in Minnesota and all the states surrounding it. That was some of the hardest wrestling I have ever encountered. I placed in the top six at NYWA and not placing at Gopher state unfortunately. The summer before my junior year I went to multiple wrestling camps costing thousands of dollars and lasting weeks in time. And when it came time to vote for captains I just knew I was going to get it. The night before the coach told us who was going to be awarded captain

Much of my life has been influenced by the sport of wresting. My father is the head wrestling coach of the high school I attend; my whole life I have watched the sport, and spent time with his past teams. In the fifth grade I told my father that I no longer wanted to continue wrestling; we made a deal that when I reached high school I would join the team and if I still felt that wrestling was not a sport I wanted to pursue, I could quit again and end my career. When I entered high school, my brother had already been attending the same school and wrestling for my dad on the school team, so adapting to high school and high school sports was more simple for me than other students. The winter of my freshman year I was, as I had promised my father, out for the wrestling team.

“Why Kid?” said, my grandfather. I replied, “simple, not everyone can do it, that why I love it. I love the grind, I love the self-torture, and of course the leading reason I look ripped in a singlet. Wrestling is one of the most demanding sports there is. The dedication, hard work, dieting, endless practices, and the everlasting season. Don't forget sectionals, then finally state. I can't tell you how many parties that I had to turn down during the season because I didn't want to be tempted to binge eat. The countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner I've had to give up. I felt like a dog watching everyone eat their honey roasted turkey.

One of my childhood dreams was being a WWE wrestler. As a kid I loved wrestling. I had over 500 action figures and dozens of championship belts. My father and I use to watch it on T.V. every Monday and Friday night. As I grew older, I grew out of playing with wrestlers and started to play outside more. I started to have less and less interest for WWE and becoming a wrestler. As I found out that the dream was only a childhood fantasy.

During your match it's all on you but when your results count it's a team sport, just like at tournaments it's a team sport to see who wins the tournament. Wrestling is all about what you're willing to put into it. Whatever I put into it in practice and how hard I'm willing to work will decide how well I do and how much I get better because it's all on you. I like giving lots of effort because it shows how much you're willing to work and how much want it, which makes it that much better. I also like it because of the aggressiveness it involved during the match. I like being aggressive and beating my opponent and having fun doing

After Freshman year of highschool I started to slowly drop sport after to sport to help me gain time in the off season to make up for all the lost time in previous years. By doing so this helped me engage in more hours of off season workouts and tournaments. While doing so I very slowly started to realize that if I continued working hard and persevering through harder practices and harder workouts, that it wasn't too late to catch my opponents. That i would be able to be better than my opponents not only in skill level, but overall shape and conditioning. That wrestling was not about being the strongest, or most athletic in the room.

My most favorite sport is wrestling. It is one of the hardest and greatest sports out there. It strengthens athletes while also building their character. When I first started wrestling in high school, I wasn’t the strongest, fastest, or toughest wrestler on the team. With the help and guidance of my coaches and teammates, I was able to become one of the top wrestlers at my high school. Through my high school career, I have had some impressive comeback wins, was voted as team captain my junior and senior year, hold school records, and qualified for the state tournament my senior year. After graduating high school I still wanted to continue my wrestling career. I am currently wrestling for the Wayne State Wrestling Club and plan to wrestle for

Who knows if wrestling yourself is harder than wrestling others? My passion, ever since I stepped on a wrestling mat, is wrestling. Every single person was a novice, with a month advantage, and so I challenged each individual as my panacea to all my anger, sadness, stress and loneliness. The first day I made a huge impression on my coach. I hip-tossed other wrestlers and heard, “I can’t breathe, get off of me!” My skill was acknowledged as a suitable wrestler, meaning that I have heart, spirit, strength, speed, and skill. As a team we each played a role, we had to work hard, go to practice or Beat the Streets, win matches, and, ultimately, not get pinned. The most difficult task was to be in our own designated weight class; we had to control

My freshman and sophomore year of high school I went to Liberty where I decided I was going to try out for the wrestling team, from there on I only lost eleven matches out of sixty one matches I would end up winning districts both years. Our wrestling team had head coaches that had a culture of winning and competing, as well as having State Champions wrestlers who truly loved wrestling. Then junior year came and I was forced to change schools to attend Independence where I had no one to practice with, plus having a brand new head coach, which had been given only three wrestlers and the rest students that have never wrestled before causing limits on the amount of wrestling concepts that are learned so in result practice ends up being a

With the removal of wrestling from the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also taking away many dreams for young wrestlers all over the world. Wrestling is a very mentally and physically challenging sport. “More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill, none have wrestled without pride”(Dan Gable).To become successful at it, one must practice regularly and put in a large amount of work. In the United States alone there are over 260,000 wrestlers who have put in this work and dedication. Yet, this is only a small portion of the wrestlers in the world. With this being a small example of the world, it is hard to not think of the multitudes of young Olympic hopefuls whose dreams are being crushed with the removal of wrestling from the Olympics.

In the beginning, I was not very good. I lacked the strength, confidence, and experience necessary for success. I also did not have much competition to work with because as a fifth grader, I only weighed around 50 to 60 pounds. My entire first two seasons consisted of less than ten matches, most of which I lost. My third season, I had finally grown to a common weight and had the opportunity to wrestle more than in previous seasons. I ended up finishing the season with a record of one win, twenty-seven losses. This seems

It took things off my mind and I finally did not feel as alone and was not consumed with the thought of my dad anymore. This was a great way to occupy my time. I then began to open up and started meeting a lot of new friends. A few of the wrestlers on the team later became my best friends. I did not only gain friends from wrestling, but my coaches became my roles models. They were such an encouragement and I was able to talk to them about anything. I was no longer sad, school became something I looked forward to each day. My coaches taught me how important it was to make goals for myself and to be the best person I could possibly be. My first two goals were to maintain a GPA above a 3.0 and to win JV states as a freshman. I ended accomplishing both my goals by the end of freshman year and it was the best feeling in the world. The next year I was expected to win 1st place again, but I ended up losing in my final match. This was just another setback, which really discouraged me, but my coaches were there for me every step of the way. They helped me to realize that there is no such thing as failure there are only lessons to be

Wrestling has showed me to not show how you feel when you step on that mat. “Never show your opponent's weakness.” That is exactly what I do when I’m around others, I don’t show weakness. It’s not really good to show others how you feel. Reasons why people don’t try to put me down. They know I’ll fight back. I don’t let anything get in my way of being successful; and if something does, all I do is push it out of my way. I am different compared to any other female athlete in my school. Wrestling has shaped me into a person who enjoys challenges. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” I’ve changed so much, I love to be challenged now. Wrestling identifies me in my personality and sense of humor. Makes me very unique. My teammates too we are all very different in many ways. And it shows others that I’m not like everyone else. I have learned over the years that I am a strong, independent person and I don’t let anything get in my way. I thank that I have found an interest that I love and that defines who I am. If it wasn’t for this sport I would never be known as much as I am. I am a leader who loves to overcome challenges that try to stop me from moving forward. I don’t interact much, I’m very quiet at times, but I am a fun