As one

As an athlete myself iv been involved with sports for about 14 years. From golf and soccer to football and lacrosse. Sports hasn't just been a fun hobby but also an escape from stress, a fun way to exercise and many lessons learned. Sports over time has taught me to use communication, leadership and to take risk. For me, public speaking or basic communication was one of my biggest issues growing up as a kid. I would never want to present projects, meet new people or talk in front of large crowds. I realized in sports I always wanted to be the captain and call the plays. Then I realized i'm yelling and ordering people to do things in front of hundreds of people and If I mess up its all on me, but I wanted to be a leader and I wanted to be the best at It. I thought to myself leaders don't focus on being the best in one topic but branch out into everything which helped encourage me in my public speaking. In my four years of high school I was a lacrosse captain and attack men for the team. I noticed that leadership wasn't just motivation talks and being the best player but being a risk taker and having persistence. My first and favorite coach I had in football never congratulated us during a game or let us cheer for making a touchdown or getting a interception. He told us "act like you know its going to happen and its nothing new, act like its boring. Until the time runs out that will determine weather you can cheer or not." Sports teams always have though few players that can take a  team to play offs every season. But its scary when you run into a team  where every player is on the top seed. And that lead me to focus on pushing all of my teammates to the same level. I saw it as a group project. There's always that kid who doesn't do there work and makes others finish for them. I wanted to build a team AS ONE.