Polo My Passion

I am a competitive swimmer, I train 9 times a week and swim before and after school. when i have a swim meet ill be at the pool for up to 60 hours a week. Waking up and jumping into a freezing pool at 4:30 isn’t generally my idea of fun. Sometimes i hate it, but mostly i love it… being committed to a sport teaches us time management, resilience and dedication,

Joining water polo was a complete accident my freshman year, I did not even know how to swim before then. However, by the end of my season, I could keep up with some of the girls and learned how to be a part of a team. I was not the best or even close, but I did not quit. Theatre and dance have been a part of my life for a long time. From a young age, I did ballet and jazz dance until about fifth grade. When I moved in with my Aunt and Uncle and started middle school, I started doing productions at Missoula Children's, Fairfield Starz and then continued to American Canyon Theatre Arts. Through my school, I have also developed a passion for giving back to my community and the people around me. I ran an Autism Speaks team for the last five years, I have participated in six clubs, and have been in office for two. I have managed water polo teams, participated in Relay for Life teams and completed more in the last four years than anyone ever thought I could, including myself. College is a dream I never thought was possible. It was like the clouds, but I had not realized that did not mean I should not try to fly. As the president of the International Thespian Society troupe 8155 at American Canyon High, I will be graduating as an honor thespian in June of 2016. I will also be the first person in my family to attend college in the fall of

Apart from the entertainment and joy doing them, they are imperative to my physical health. These sports have made me develop many friends and learn about different cultures. I was a member of a swimming club in my former school; here we travelled many places for competitions. During these competitions, I would try to make as many friends as possible. My choice of friends was always different races from mine, which made it a thrilling experience. I am a social and outgoing person, who always likes to learn about other people. Even though I have earned several titles as an individual in swimming, what I enjoyed most about these sports is the fact that I could meet people from different cultures around the world. Learning about these cultures also played a great role in making me study

My parents tell me that I took to swimming like... a fish takes to water. It is a safe place where I can float free of worries. Driven by passion and dedication, I decided to begin swimming competitively. Competitive swimming requires an intense level of determination and discipline. Forcing myself to get out of my warm bed at 5:30 in the morning to put on a still-slightly-damp swimsuit and stand in 40-degree weather waiting for practice to start. Putting up with limited lane space and irritating swimmers who think they are faster. Making a conscious effort to work on my stroke form, turns, touches, and techniques. The water becomes a whirlpool of injuries, losses, wins, friendships, enemies, and sickness. The water becomes home.

“Get up now,” My mom yelled down the hallway. “Hurry or you’ll be late!” My brother and I dreaded waking up early to swim, but we had chosen to commit. Even though I’ve competed every year since first grade, I still struggled. That summer swimming taught me to have stamina, the ability to not quit even though it was hard.

When it’s lacrosse season, I know I have to make sacrifices and manage my time wisely. It is important to me that I remain dedicated to lacrosse when I make the choice to play because I not only made the commitment to myself, but more importantly to my teammates and to my coach. Swimming is another activity that exemplifies my dedication. I have been swimming on Three Village Swim Club since I was 10 years old. There is no doubt that Three Village requires the highest level of dedication. With deciding to continue to swim each year, I commit myself to practice 2 to 3 hours a day, 7 days a week. Over the many years I have been a team member, there were definitely times I wanted to just quit and give up, but I knew this was something I loved to do and I would have to overcome the hard times in order to continue doing what I loved. Swimming allowed me

When I first joined the North Attleboro Swim Team my freshman year of high school, I did not know what to expect. Prior to joining, I had never swam on a team before so it was a whole new experience to me. As the first week of swim started, I was apprehensive if I wanted to continue since I was not on the same caliber as my other teammates were. The practices were brutal but extremely rewarding, as I strived to prove myself and to my coaches. As my freshman season was under way, a couple of upperclassmen took

Water Polo is, for the most part, an unknown sport. The history of water polo as a team sport

During the spring of 2015, I missed all of the time cuts to make Speedo Sectionals, forcing me to compete in a much slower meet at the end of the season. There are few things I have experienced that are more crushing than trying my hardest and falling short of my goal. Despite the heavy disappointment, I used the opportunity to harden my resolve and use my strengths to my greatest advantage. Along with my coach’s help, I used my ability to think strategically and hone my technique through focus on the smallest details from how I would approach a swim mentally to how I would warm up. My coach had many important and useful suggestions and lessons from his past experience that required me to be an active learner that could apply his information.

I swam on a year round swim team for eight years. I absolutely loved it. But, in tenth grade I moved to the highest level group on my team so we practiced before and after school. I would wake up at four in the morning, go to practice, go to school, go back to practice, and then arrive home at six in the evening. I then had to eat dinner, finish homework, and work on orders. With the volume of orders I was receiving, I did not have enough time to make the orders in a time frame that was fair to my customers. My business was more important to me, so I had to stop swimming. I still, however, teach swim lessons on the weekend and am still on the varsity swim team at my school. During the summer, I am also the head coach of a neighborhood swim team with seventy kids.

McKenzie Jackson, the author of “Former MHS player named best coach”, writes about how Hayden Goldberg, a former student and water polo player at Malibu High School, was named Tri-Valley League Coach of the Year for the MHS water polo girls’ team. A previous high school coach, Mike Mulligan, notes his natural ability to lead and coach, his admiration for the game, and his respect for the players. This article relates to the theories presented in class relating to leadership and sport.

I have always loved to swim on my school’s swim team and I plan to swim on the team in the fall on each year. I know that I will have to most likely practice a whole lot more then what I do at my current school, but I am up for the challenge. I have no idea how good I will do

The journey of competitive swimming started at the age of eight for my local `neighborhood team. I exhibited great potential for the future, for I won nearly all my races. This seemed like the sport

Joining a team with kids ranging from five to eighteen, it can be hard. It seemed as if everyone already knew each other. At first, I felt like an outcast, but not for long, once I proved I could swim fast. It took time learning names and getting used to the practices, but in the end my entrance into this group was easy compared to the practices I had to go through. My exit from DCPR was much harder, the coach’s said a few things about us at the award ceremony and then the team gave us a card and best wish in college and off we go. The coaches, swimmers, and the swimmers’ parents had become my second family. We all believed in hard work, having fun, and racing when the time came. Our norms were putting in the effort when swimming and if you did, it would pay off in the meets. Slacking off was never rewarded and always sanctioned. Either the coach or your parent, or both, would yell at you. At 12 I was given the infamous nickname, Snax. It was not necessarily a bad nickname; it came about because I had a habit of always having snacks. We all got nicknames, they were our folkways. It was just part of the culture of being on the team. Our more was practice; it started at 6 every day and had a set

Your credentials – I have been a swimmer since a young age. I have also trained for physique in water and I have been through water therapy.