College Essay About Gymnastics

When I was young, I was searching for the right sport for me. It took a while but I finally found the perfect sport and it was gymnastics. I was so excited to begin the wonderful sport. In gymnastics you have to start somewhere and most people start in beginner classes, like me. I went from beginner classes to team and I have been on team ever since. Team takes a lot of practice and training and many years of strength and self-confidence. Like most people I took many years to get where I am now and it took lots of training but, it was all worth it. My gymnastics career started in the fall of 2009, with my friend Hannah at a gymnastics class. One fall day in October, my mom couldn’t pick my sister and I up from school, so she had asked my friend Hannah’s mom if she could pick us up. She had told my mom that she could but, Hannah and her sister Hailey had a gymnastics class that night and she offered for my sister Maddie and I
I was so nervous but excited at the same time. I had my competition leotard on and my hair in a really tight pony tail with a matching bow. At gymnastics competitions you have to look really nice and presentable because you are representing your team. When we walked into the arena we got ready for warm-up. After warm-up we did march in and got ready to warm up our first event. March in is where we get in a line with our team shortest to tallest and the M.C. calls out each team name and we salute and then we listen to the National Anthem. Our first event was bars and at gymnastics meets we go in Olympic order. Olympic order is vault, bars, beam, floor, so after bars we went to beam and so on. After we warm up each event we compete it in front of 2-3 judges (depends on each event the amount of judges). At the end of the meet we went to awards in the building next door. I had won a medal for each event and after awards we got a team picture and went to a team dinner at Olive