Letters of application and complaint
Dear Dr. Orr:
I am writing with enthusiasm after discovering your Swim With Mike scholarship that provides financial resources for advanced education to physically challenged athletes so that they can overcome their tragedies and realize their full potential. The name of the scholarship is what really grabbed my attention, because I was a four year varsity swimmer for Blue Valley High School, and am now bound to a wheelchair. Swimming was one of the most important things to me before my accident
I have a rather diverse athletic background; before I even thought of swimming to be my sport, I grew up as a football and baseball player. Winning tournaments, receiving trophies with my team mates , and earning medals was part of my childhood. It wasn't until highschool that I became a swimmer, and I walked onto the varsity team after the coach described my stroke as natural and the swimmers joked that I was a prodigy. We won state that year and the following year. Being a part of that inspired me to work harder than I ever imagined possible.
I invested myself in and out of season on a goal of breaking the school's 100 yard breaststroke record after two of my teammates came within a tenth of a second at the past two state championships. Lifting weights really helped me take my swimming to the next level; because I was shorter than most of my competitors, my coach emphasized that I put on more lean muscle mass. After gaining 30 pounds of muscle in an a year and a half, I broke the school record by a second and a half at the state championship my senior year. There is no better feeling than completing a goal that you have been focused on for years.
Three weeks after I broke the school record, I dove into the ocean in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and broke something tragically different - my 5th cervical vertebra. I am now paralyzed from the chest down, but there is no way that I am going to let that stop me from accomplishing my goals and reaching my dreams, just as
I am writing with enthusiasm after discovering your Swim With Mike scholarship that provides financial resources for advanced education to physically challenged athletes so that they can overcome their tragedies and realize their full potential. The name of the scholarship is what really grabbed my attention, because I was a four year varsity swimmer for Blue Valley High School, and am now bound to a wheelchair. Swimming was one of the most important things to me before my accident
I have a rather diverse athletic background; before I even thought of swimming to be my sport, I grew up as a football and baseball player. Winning tournaments, receiving trophies with my team mates , and earning medals was part of my childhood. It wasn't until highschool that I became a swimmer, and I walked onto the varsity team after the coach described my stroke as natural and the swimmers joked that I was a prodigy. We won state that year and the following year. Being a part of that inspired me to work harder than I ever imagined possible.
I invested myself in and out of season on a goal of breaking the school's 100 yard breaststroke record after two of my teammates came within a tenth of a second at the past two state championships. Lifting weights really helped me take my swimming to the next level; because I was shorter than most of my competitors, my coach emphasized that I put on more lean muscle mass. After gaining 30 pounds of muscle in an a year and a half, I broke the school record by a second and a half at the state championship my senior year. There is no better feeling than completing a goal that you have been focused on for years.
Three weeks after I broke the school record, I dove into the ocean in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and broke something tragically different - my 5th cervical vertebra. I am now paralyzed from the chest down, but there is no way that I am going to let that stop me from accomplishing my goals and reaching my dreams, just as