What Does Overestimated Mean

I have played soccer since I was four or five years old. It was my life; I quit baseball for it, made my parents spend thousands over the years on camps and different travel teams. I devoted countless hours to the sport, playing on a number of teams from rec, to high school learning so much as I grew as a player but never learned as much as I did the day I got cut from the varsity soccer team. Growing up I was never a star player in competitive leagues. I could hold my own, occasionally get past some players and score, but for the most part I was just average and I was perfectly okay with this.

At the age of ten I was the most energetic, go-lucky, confident girl. I excelled at my beloved sport, soccer. I had been playing since I was just a mere five years old, far longer than the other girls. Playing so long had helped me be at a higher level of skill than most of the other players on my team.

Getting cut from the soccer team was a wakeup call that taught me a hard lesson: Talent alone won’t guarantee success. The coaches didn’t pick me not because I failed to show my skill but because of my nonchalant attitude at tryouts. Instead of holding their critique personally, I took their comments as motivation to change my attitude. From that experience on, I learned that attitude play an important role in success.

Joining a new club soccer team coupled with almost daily workouts allowed me to improve my skills in the offseason. The feeling of going into tryouts being so prepared allowed a new level of confidence to emerge in myself. With only two starting spots open, working hard from the very start was necessary in order for me to prove myself to coach. After making the team again, I knew giving my best effort couldn’t end here. I showed up to practices with a positive attitude, always ready to work hard. When the preseason scrimmages, long practices, and exhausting fitness checks were over, the feeling of having earned a starting spot was incredibly satisfying. Now, not only am I working hard to keep up my starting spot, but I am hoping my attitude will rub off on everyone and make the team stronger. Afterall, soccer is a team sport; and the possibility of winning a state title in the near future adds to my ambition to perform well for my teammates every time I step on the field.

As humans surrounded by other humans, with lots of opinions, we begin to develop a self-concept, thoughts about ourselves and who we are, at an early age. Part of that self-concept consists of our belief of how capable we

Every year the game got more and more serious and now the team wanted to win just as much as they wanted to have fun. When I entered High School soccer I was very nervous because I was in the youngest age group. There was a lot of older and more experienced players on the team. The summer before the season started the team went to a soccer camp to play against opposing teams, and as a new player I was very nervous to play. It was my first year playing High School Soccer, with no experience. The team played a couple games, and I was put on varsity to play. I was so nervous. I did not think I could keep up with the pace and the intensity of the game. The team ended up winning the tournament in that camp. When the real season started, I was starting on varsity my freshman year. I felt like I had no room for mistakes or I would get yelled at and taken out of the game. During the first two years of High School soccer, I also played basketball and club soccer. I decided that I really wanted to take my soccer career further. I decided not to play basketball anymore and just focus on soccer. I attended a recruiting session, which sets up your profile so colleges

I expect myself to always be a lot better than I am, and sometimes, this causes stress to me because I end up think a lot about it and worrying so much.

Over the years, playing soccer has taught me what it takes to succeed. From months of tough practices, I have gained a hard work ethic. From my coaches and fellow teammates, I have learned to work well with others in a group, as it is necessary to cooperate with teammates on the playing field. But most important, I have also gained self-confidence. If I fail, it doesn't' t matter if they mock or ridicule me; I will simply try again and do it better. I realize that it is necessary to risk failure in order to gain success. The

One of the most significant challenges I never thought that I would accomplish was to become a starter on my soccer team. Since my freshman year in high school, I was one of the smallest kids on the team, was not very fast, and was not one of the most physically fit . Even though I never seen a lot of playing time, I continued to work to the best of my ability.

Throughout my childhood I have always had a passion for soccer. I loved to watch and play soccer whenever I could. During my freshman year of highschool I got the opportunity to take my dedication to the sport to the next level and was asked to coach a family friends youth team. As a coach on a youth soccer team I learned valuable lessons to further my leadership qualities, but this position required a vast amount of leadership from the start. I was expected to be committed to my team and was responsible for creating the motivation and heart I have for soccer in the children I was coaching.

To begin, over the span of five years I have gone from being the withdrawn, new player on the lowest level team to the central defender and captain of a provincial level team. My main purpose on the field has been to make sure the rest of my teammates have the tools they need to play their positions. As

Ever since I remember I always had people tell me that I wouldn't be able to accomplish or do something I wanted to do. They always put negative thoughts in my head, but I didn't let them win me. In high school, I joined cross country my sophomore year and I remember having a person who I thought was my friend tell me “ dude, you should just quit, it's too hard for you-you won’t make it” I felt bad because I thought I wasn't good enough.

Some people are born doubting of themselves. They lack the strength of character, they lack the confidence to make it – they’re pessimists who always think everything would turn out bad.

Throughout soccer career, I noticed that anyone can become an exceptional soccer player; however, not everyone holds the passion, integrity, and focus necessary to become an effective leader. During my sophomore and junior years of playing high school soccer I played for the JV team, something that would discourage most players. However, I took the time during these two years to establish myself as a leader. Each game I motivated and inspired my teammates to give 110% effort while I was there with them every step of the way. Naturally, going into my senior year, my classmates didn’t expect much from me on the field as I had never consistently played on the varsity team. Ultimately, this didn’t discourage me as I entered the season with the

It's lucky for one to never be called inadequate. The idea of having lesser value grows unstoppably from a thought to a major mental roadblock. Pride is hard to come by after it has been lost. I have had my abilities tested across many fields, and while I often come out on top, I tend to take losses much to the heart.