Personal Narrative: I Am Eduardo Rodriguez

In his autobiography Life Lessons from Little League, Vincent Fortanasce says “Winning is never final, and losing is never fatal.” At the end of a game, one team will win and the other will lose. Failure to accept this concept has become detrimental to American youth sports organizations. Our society has become infatuated with winning, and all of the additional perks associated with it. What is considered the “best” for children as young as five years old has grown to an unrealistic extent. Parents want their children to be in a reputable organization, young athletes want to play with highly skilled teammates, and coaches want to recruit talented players all in hopes of being the absolute “best”. The amount of young athletes, ranging from five to fourteen years old, participating in local sports organizations has declined within the last two decades due to the highly competitive and unhealthy environments they are being exposed to.Taking pride in your local community has decreased form an athletic point of view. Representing the place I grew up in was a motivating factor when I put my uniform on for every single softball game I played in high school. I had the privilege to play on the field next to girls I had grown to love the sport with ever since our tee ball days. Today, young athletes are branching out from their homegrown roots to play for club teams who recruit players from a larger region. The popularity of traveling teams has substantially diluted the

You want to know what shaped/molded me as student. Wow, that's a funny qurstion! I believed I didn't know what made me who I am, but as I look back and forth, I realized, it was me. I am my own motivation. I don't look up to anyone, I just look forward to something. I am a believer, dreamer, achiever, and wonderer. As I look around me and see how my family and others of a different and same ethnicity living their whole life on a budget, barely making ends meet, I tell myself I will be better and become better. I will not let my surroundings select or change the way I am. When I was younger, I believed everything would just come and fall into my arms. I wanted to be all of the occupations I seen on TV. I planted in my head that I would be a

Team sports for example not only provide physical activity for children. They also introduce them to the meaning of “teamwork” and ability

I am Eduardo Rodriguez also known as Eddie Rodriguez. I was born in Fontana, California in November 2, 1997 and raised in the outskirts of Los Angeles in the city of Pasadena. When I was younger, I attended over 5 elementary schools around the town until my family moved to La Quinta in 2005. Attending numerous schools when younger was very difficult for me because every time I moved, I would have to start fresh, but it was a change that will encourage me to embrace the unexpected. I attended Palm Desert High School for 3 years and I transferred to Palm Springs my senior year. My dream of becoming a pharmacist or a professional football player has not changed at all, however I want to achieve both of my dreams before time starts to run out. In my family, I have 2 brothers, my mother, stepdad, and dog that are very healthy and happy. My mother was the first to go to college to become a nurse.

I am Sergio Palacio, I study at North Broward Preparatory school, I am from Colombia, Im 12 years old, I have tried with a lot of sports and I have liked all of them, when I was like 4 years old my mom ten when I was 6 I started learning roller skates we played a little bit of hockey because there was no sticks the pocks weren't the best ones but that was what we had then three years later they invited me to go the Saturday so I went with a friend that was also in hockey, I really liked it so I did hockey since that day, then when I was 11 I went to swimming classes with a friend but we could only do swimming for a year because it was with the school and that was the last year we could go to sports and this summer I ...

I believe in isonomy because there are innocent people getting murdered and nobody is doing anything unless they are of significance or a certain colour of skin. I’m talking about the “Man” who doesn’t look down on light skins but treats darker skins like they should be accused of everything even though they did not do anything.

After coming home from a long tour in Alaska with her band Rosie and the Screamers, Flores wanted to quit music altogether, despite her growing success. “They broke me; I didn’t like the men I was working with; they treated me so poorly, stuff I don’t wish to talk about.” Although she could not imagine trying to find a new path, the burnout was insurmountable, so she came back to LA and worked in a kitchen making sandwiches. The act of doing something different helped her to refocus. Apparently, her new job didn’t last very long; within two months, she wound up answering an ad for a bass player in the Screaming Sirens. “I just liked the idea where I didn’t have to sing. I didn’t have to play the same songs I was playing and that I can be in

That day, I met a group of 13 boys, out of shape, lacking fundamentals, but willing to learn. I, along with a few other former teammates, understood that we needed to push these kids to their physical limits, and ran them until we felt tired. The other coaches I worked with were both around the same age as me, but all came from different schools, granting us a multitude of drills to guarantee sure the kids advanced as fast as possible. Although our viewpoints on how to manage the team may have differed at times, we had the same common goal, making these boys better at baseball. However, through drilling younger kids and teaching them fundamentals, I also learned some valuable

That day, I met a group of 13 boys, out of shape, lacking fundamentals, but willing to learn. I, along with a few other old teammates, understood that we needed to push these kids to their physical limits, and ran them until we got tired. The other coaches I worked with were both around the same age as me, but all came from different schools, granting us a multitude of drills to make sure the kids advanced as fast as possible. Although our viewpoints on how to manage the team may have differed at times, we had the same common goal, making these boys better at

Coronado had the weirdest dream the last night his dream was aboutfinding the 7 cities

I am Carlos Peru. I was born and raised in Anthony, New Mexico. Everything I’ve ever gotten was due to my hard work. My whole life I was never given anything and this lifestyle grew me to be the person I am today and also the things I like today. I wouldn’t take any of it back. Given I didn’t like every day I still wouldn’t trade it for anything. These things made my major life choices such as my major, my favorite books, and movies and such things like that. My major is neuroscience and I found this love through a friend of my fathers. He is an accomplished anesthesiologist and one day I got to see a surgery love and I loved what the surgeons and doctor got to do and I loved it. From that point on and even to this day I continue to pursue

Throughout my soccer career here at South Rowan High School, we have orchestrated a youth soccer camp for a week each summer for kids ranging from the ages of 6 years old to 13 years old. The summer going into my freshmen year, Walker, who is my best friend, and I were assigned to the youngest kids in the camp. Obviously, the younger kids in the camp were going to require more patience and attention than the older kids.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Pedro Castillo. He is seven years old, Cuban, and is in Ms. Neer’s first grade class. Despite English he is one of the few students in his class that is above average, he is reading at a second grade level.

Growing up, many young people are faced with the logical fallacy that doing “just enough” will get them to the places they want to be. Through sports, children come to the realization that they need to maximize their potential by trying their very hardest to come out victorious (Veale). These basic abilities prepare people for much more important situations in their lives like college applications and job interviews. Some may underachieve and coast through life doing the bare minimum, but not a little league

Everyone has an identity, and it is our identity which defines who we are and our place in society. Our identities help other people to draw conclusions about who we are, as well as, spotlight values and beliefs. Our identities have the power to positively or negatively affect how we live our lives, as well as, have the power to affect how we interact socially. Identities can be shaped and molded by the communities in which we live, the schools we attend, churches where we worship, the sports in which we participate, our race, gender, and physical features. Many of my friends, family, and acquaintances, describe my identity as being strongly influenced by my disability, my family values, and my fiercely independent nature. Prior to writing