Personal Narrative-Running As A Career

My clinical rotation for the fall semester of my junior year is with the King’s College Men’s soccer team. As an athletic training student, I hold a lot of responsibilities regarding the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, management, and treatment of these student athletes. Most of my daily activities can be separated into three groups, the pre-practice, pre-game, during the activity, and post- practice and post-game.

I was a late-comer to athletics. So when the distance coach recruited me in tenth grade, it was a pleasant surprise to be half decent. I was deemed the most improved cross country runner in the nation, dropping six minutes for a 4K, landing me in my first state race. I have since been a contributing part of my varsity team. I have been All-Conference and All-Section for the past three years. This past year, my cross country team won state and nationals. I, myself, was runner-up in the team division at nationals. In Track and Field, I also competed at state. Running has become a huge part of my life, teaching me many lessons, especially that there is always room for

My plans when I get older where like every other child's. I want to be in the NFL. To get where I am you have to start at a young age. I showed up at practice everyday and on time. I also studied the play sheets and went through all my routes. I studied day and night to be where I am. It wasn't easy. There was no time to play games get in trouble do drugs or hang out with friend on an everyday bases. You have to tighten up be a man. It's not like I woke up one day and I was starting running back I had to do what's right stay in school not miss a day because that one day could have been the most important day ever and I wouldn't have even known. You know why?? Because I was and didn't show up to school. Don't be that person I used to be.

When I was only eight years old my mom and dad made me join a track team called Lighting Links. I was furious because I hated running, I was scared I wouldn't make any friends, and I really really hated running. For me, running was like throwing away your favorite candy for no reason. I would just use up all of my energy and get no benefits from it, well at least that is what I thought.

I have accomplished lots of things in my lifetime. I have accomplished getting a job and getting my license to go to that job. I have accomplished working two jobs one is being a machinist and a referee.

Music has always been a large part of my life. Since I was six years old, I would dream of being one of the players in an orchestra to my favorite movie. As I grew older, these dreams started to have a greater impact on me and began to shape the outcome of my life. In fourth grade, I began to play the recorder for my elementary school, and I immediately loved it. I loved playing it, and it helped that the teacher was fun too. But, even though I loved playing the recorder, I knew the instrument I really wanted to play, the flute.

With school beginning once again, so did the new responsibilities that came during my junior year in the NJROTC as now the commander of the marksmanship team and one specific task that I was asked to was to create a more efficient marksmanship practice. During the second week of school with a discussion with Commander Heyward, he proposed his technique from his previous team where it got me concerned how will this work. The current plan I proposed was to be at least more efficient than his as I could get the returning students back in their target practices and for the new first year cadets would learn the basics of target practice quick and the returning members would be back on schedule with giving me time to work with the new members.

I have played sports ever since I could remember. I have played multiple sports a year since my freshman year. I've played high school football and soccer for four years. In both of these sports I have received multiple awards for including my recent award for football as I was selected for All-State. I plan to continue my football career in college. I played only one year of baseball and decided to quit playing to focus on soccer and football. My sophomore year I was a JV captain of my soccer team. Then my senior year I was a Varsity Captain. Playing sports have been my favorite part of high school and I wish I could go back and do it all over

Something I have always found interesting since a young age was the sport of running. Just the thought about how we had the ability to run, then using that skill and racing others with that same skill, it just amazed me. Then through elementary school they had field day when they had the 100 yard sprint and mini PVC pipe hurdles, it got me really interested in racing others. I was naturally competitive and really wanted to be the fastest girl out there. So when I came into high school, when track season came around I joined the track team. When I came to learn the ways of track I found that wind plays a significant part of running. But why so much?

The bystanders erupted from the stands as I burst past the line of scrimmage. I stiff arm a defender to the ground, and I watch as the safety advances to my position. I stutter my feet quickly, and he breaks down into a stance as he attempts to tackle me. I get out of my stutter and burst to my right, and he immediately follows. As he begins to get closer to me, I plant my right foot down, hard, and he hesitates. Bad mistake. As soon as he stops, I immediately translate into a sprint and I explode up field. The entire stadium shakes, and my ears almost pop as I storm down the sideline. I look behind me and the safety has given up on his chase, which is exactly as I expected. I glide into the endzone, and I toss the ball to the waiting referee, but not before I celebrate my 4th touchdown of the game with my teammates.

Me and my family were just sitting on the couch watching a movie and the lights went out for 5 seconds. All the sudden I saw a note on the window and it said “Run”. So we actually decided to run just incase it was something bad going on. We all ran to a hotel about 15 minutes away for about 2 days. When we got back to the house all of our stuff was gone. The only thing that was in the house was was our beds.

On mornings as cold as this, there were only a few things I imagine one could think of that might be an appropriate form of activity. A moderate list. Running would probably be somewhere towards the bottom of that list. Yet, there I was, struggling through hundreds of people in dri-fit T-shirts and above-the-knee level, elastic gym shorts. I’d never been a fan of unfamiliar crowds. I could learn to deal with that. As I moved around and did copious amounts of stretching to get my body ready for the task before me, I unknowingly would soon have to learn to deal with something much harder to overcome than unfamiliar crowds.

Well as an athlete for the past four years in high school. I have gone through many ups and downs in my sport. My sport is cross country running. As an athlete I have experienced many injuries that have knocked me down from my performance. However, these injuries didn't totally keep me down. I always get back up even stronger and faster than ever before. I started running the summer right before my freshman year. It was just a fun idea my friends and I thought about. We wanted to run as fun thing to do to just hang out. For instance, never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to end up loving the sport. As an incoming freshman I was pretty slow compared to my team mates who have been running years before me. Indeed, this was the thing that kept me going.

This is my story as an All-Star cheerleader. Everything was fantastic. We had been qualifying to compete in the World Championships, year in and year out. Then it all changed. We lost a few competitions in a row and it seemed everyone had turned on me. The practices became dreadful. The coaches I looked up to and trusted for years, were now ridiculing my every move, making me think I was a terrible athlete. This was difficult for me to wrap my head around, since I knew deep in my soul that it was not true. Even worse, everything snowballed. My friends and teammates starting making the same remarks by whispering behind my back and tormenting me in the group message. “You’re so dumb Karlee, it is all your fault we lost,” and “All

I have been trained to become a chemist since the first year of my high school. This is a challenging career, requiring analytical thinking, attention to details, and adaptability. It is also a well-paying and promising career. However, chemistry is not what I have always dreamt of doing the rest of my life. As someone who is concerned about the development of sub-Saharan Africa, I came to a conclusion that what this region needs is not only scientists but also people who know and understand leadership and international affairs. In this paper, I compare my strengths and abilities to the qualities that one should have in order to excel as a chemist and a diplomat.