College Admissions Essay: How Volleyball Changed My Life
Heart pumping, sweat dripping, the score is 16 to 24, they are winning and they have the ball, and then they score and its over, all over. Everything we worked so hard toward for weeks, months, and even years, is all over. As soon as that last point happened it hit me right away that one of the things that I loved so much was suddenly over, because of one small mistake, and the tears started falling almost instantly, we all made our way over to shake hands with the opposing team, many of them were very considerate and patted our backs along the way and let us know that we had a great season. As my team huddled up to talk about it all there was not a dry eye in that circle, and our coach said to us “I will be the first to tell you that this is not easy for anyone us have been amazing this season and you have so much
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Volleyball had always been a game that I was passionate about, during the season and in the moment I really believed my life revolved around it and I never thought that it would ever actually come to an end, and then it did. I had a roller coaster of emotions through out that season, disappointed when we lost, ecstatic when we won, and sometimes a little angry when things didn’t go well; but my only feeling after that last game of my high school career was heart broken. I was broken because I was never going to be able to lace up my shoes and play another completive volleyball game in my life. This was a huge deal for me because I was a one sport athlete, meaning that I would never go out and play sports at a high level of competiveness again. I believe that sports are very important and that teach many valuable skills that you cannot learn from many other places. I was also broken because through out my many years of volleyball I’ve made so many new friends that I have now made a bond with that cannot be broken; they are some of my closest friends, we still enjoy getting together and hanging out every now and then, and I still talk to many of them
Volleyball had always been a game that I was passionate about, during the season and in the moment I really believed my life revolved around it and I never thought that it would ever actually come to an end, and then it did. I had a roller coaster of emotions through out that season, disappointed when we lost, ecstatic when we won, and sometimes a little angry when things didn’t go well; but my only feeling after that last game of my high school career was heart broken. I was broken because I was never going to be able to lace up my shoes and play another completive volleyball game in my life. This was a huge deal for me because I was a one sport athlete, meaning that I would never go out and play sports at a high level of competiveness again. I believe that sports are very important and that teach many valuable skills that you cannot learn from many other places. I was also broken because through out my many years of volleyball I’ve made so many new friends that I have now made a bond with that cannot be broken; they are some of my closest friends, we still enjoy getting together and hanging out every now and then, and I still talk to many of them