Personal Narrative: My Life As A Sports Media Center

It all started when i was in fourth grade. It all changed what inspired me came by whole big dream that i wanted to be successful at. I was at school just a normal day, and it was times to go to PE, and my coach got out a circular ball that i had never seen in my life. It was kinda colorful, it had some weird word written on it, but i couldn't see from where i was standing. My coach handed us each one of these balls, and coach called them volleyballs. My coach told us what to do and what not to do, so i was at this net, and just gave the ball a high five because that's what he said to do. Coach came over to me, and kinda directed me through and told me it was called a serve. That day i went home thinking about it, and i decided i want to do

Leadership is a key role in all team sports, if you don’t have the leadership odds are is that your not going to have good team chemistry and not an very good season as well. My junior year was a big time learning curve for myself, which is why I am writing this essay to you, to tell you why I believe that I am part of the cream of the crop for our football program.

Shifting in my heavy metal cleats, I can feel countless sets of eyes trained on me, observing my every move from their hard stadium seats. Normally when I’m on the mound, I have ice in my veins; the stares of the crowd bounce right off. However, this wasn’t a normal day. Instead of standing on the rubber to fire fastballs at opposing batters, I was there to honor two very special ladies and to raise funds and awareness for a cause that hits very close to home, Multiple Sclerosis. During this part of the ceremony, a fellow teammate and I were supposed to present our mothers, who are fighting the disease, with a gift from the team. Unfortunately, this did not occur as smoothly as one would hope. With slick palms, I calmly approached her with

This wasn’t just your typical football practice before your first game, this was trying to get everyone hyped after a rather laid back Monday practice. This was a more competitive practice than usual, trying to get everyone motivated for the first game against Clarksburg. Coach Song thought it would be a good a time to divide everyone up into teams, Team Zuckerman and Team Johnson. The teams were named after our running back and myself, who were voted team captains. In between drills we would have little competitions between both teams to try to bring a competitive edge for everyone to get excited for practice. Emotions were at an all-time high because Coach Song had yelled at us after the first practice to get us excited to on

My mother always told me I have a voice for TV, but a face for radio. So here I am. All kidding aside, radio has been a significant part of my media consumption and continues to be my preferred method of absorbing information. It started out listening to WFAN in New York while my dad would drive me to school. We would debate along with the hosts and my dad and I felt like I could talk for hours.

There are several reasons why I am athletic. The ways I am athletic and stay athletic is through training and playing football, basketball, and baseball. First off, I train to get into shape. I do push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and many other exercises like that. Also, I practice all the different sports and do different workouts to get better. The first sport that comes around is football. I play quarterback and linebacker and have been very successful. The past two years the teams I have been on haven’t lost a game! Next, is basketball, and it is my favorite sport. I have played it for all my life and still play it today. I play point guard and I like to shoot. During my basketball years, I have made many buzzer-beaters and

Well, this is my first post and to be completely honest it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to write, but I finally came to a conclusion.

I have never been an athletic person. I was never very fast, or skilled in athletics, and I always preferred reading to running. But during the winter of my seventh grade year, a close friend talked me into joining swim team, and in the spring, several of my other friends talked me into going out for track. As it turned out, I still wasn’t good at athletics, and I still didn’t enjoy most of it, but I think it all ended up being worth it in the end.

Coming to work for ESPN was an extremely new experience for me knowing that I've only had knowledge from an agency standpoint. However, working here for the past five months on the project management team and under the supervisor of Janene Monty was everything I expected and more. They've made my first 5 months so uplifting and smooth. I've had the opportunity to touch sports properties that I've never heard of and would've never, had I not come to work at ESPN.

She is running like the wind, a bead of sweat dripping from her face. Just a little bit longer until she reaches the finish line. Just a little bit. And she is there, the stand is erupting, shouting in glee. A new world record had just been set! This track and field star is none other than the Olympic gold medalist, Jackie Joyner-Kersee. A few years before, Babe Didrikson Zaharias sped past the same line of triumph. Both ladies are known for their talent in multiple sports. These ladies are thought to be two of the best athletes of all time, and are an inspiration for all young athletes.

Two years ago I joined a no-cut rowing club. Rowing, from what I had heard was a highly athletic sport. Looking back on it, I wasn’t what anyone would consider athletic. For the first week or two of practice, I was skeptical if this sport was an appropriate fit for me, primarily because the training we were doing was far more advanced than anything I had ever experienced. The only other sport I had participated in was the local little league baseball team and as you could imagine it wasn’t a very intense sport. But with a little coaxing from my parents I kept going to practice. Over the next three months of practicing I began to get into the rhythm of the daily workouts. At the end of three months I began to fall into place among the other

I felt nothing, except my broken heart, and my dislocated elbow. It was a beautiful Saturday in March. I woke up extra early for my softball tournament. I told myself that it was going to be a great day. It seems that everything happened so quickly. It seems when everything looks like it is falling into place like it should, but then something instantaneous happens, and everything I had worked for came crashing down.“Life is rough, so you gotta be tough.” The day of March 21, 2015, I will soon never forget.

I found a group of passionate, like-minded individuals and founded an Esports club. All of us had a strong sense of competitive spirit and a thirst to prove ourselves. We had no precedent, no knowledge or mentor. We derived a structure, incorporating roles and responsibilities similar to traditional sports.

Have you ever had someone tell you that you were not good enough or that you will not accomplish anything in life? Well hearing those things can be the hardest to hear; especially when they come from your high school football coach. My coach was someone who was not respected by much of the team due to his attitude, personality, and coaching method. He was someone that I would not talk to often because it usually ended with him telling me that I suck or that I will be working at McDonalds my whole life because I will not go far. From these words that he said to me I was affected both positively and negatively. From the words that he said to me, I was able to learn that I could not let other people’s negative attitudes affect

Throughout my entire life, I have been an avid golfer. From the moment my parents gave me my first set of clubs when I was five, I have loved golf. I enjoy practicing, playing and as strange as it might sound to someone who does not play golf, I even love to watch golf. To me, I have always been enthralled by the precision necessary to be a consistently good golfer and how just a one degree difference in your swing or on the club can make a dramatic impact on the distance and ball flight of your shot. Over the past couple of years, I have practiced for hours, trying to perfect each individual aspect of my game. When I was ten years old, I started traveling across the country to compete in national tournaments and had