Personal Narrative: A Letter To A Soccer Coach
This is strange that I am writing this letter, but, if we are being honest, it was an easy decision to write it to you. You have watched me grow from awkward, uncomfortable freshman to awkward and quite possibly more uncomfortable senior. However, I am putting that discomfort aside for this single letter so that I am able to finally thank you for all that you have done for me.
To start with, you have always stood out as one of the better soccer coaches I have had. It is not that you had the most experience or the best techniques (I mean, you do), but rather the fact that you have always been kind, compassionate, and fun-loving enough to make the experience of playing sports an enjoyable one. When I started at Northview, I had already been …show more content…
However, when I made the JV team at Northview, I will be the first to admit that I expected something far different than the season I experienced. Not only did I rediscover my passion for soccer, but I was able to understand the difference between coaching because of money (club coaches) and coaching because of passion (you).
Throughout the past four years as a player on the Northview soccer team, I have had you as my coach, which you already knew. Though it probably was not in your control at all, I want to thank you for being there with me this whole time. I have often felt a sense of discomfort among the other people on the team, and a sense of fear that things would not improve, but it was nice to always know that, if all else failed, you’d be at every practice, making fun of me and trying to trip me.
Though you obviously played a key role in my life on the field, you also have been an incredibly important teacher for me, as well. I always wanted to take contemporary literature since I was a freshman; half because you taught it, and half because of my incredible interest in film and film studies that I had yet to explore in any other way. There are very few classes that I have taken during my time as a student at Northview that have truly been taught by
To start with, you have always stood out as one of the better soccer coaches I have had. It is not that you had the most experience or the best techniques (I mean, you do), but rather the fact that you have always been kind, compassionate, and fun-loving enough to make the experience of playing sports an enjoyable one. When I started at Northview, I had already been …show more content…
However, when I made the JV team at Northview, I will be the first to admit that I expected something far different than the season I experienced. Not only did I rediscover my passion for soccer, but I was able to understand the difference between coaching because of money (club coaches) and coaching because of passion (you).
Throughout the past four years as a player on the Northview soccer team, I have had you as my coach, which you already knew. Though it probably was not in your control at all, I want to thank you for being there with me this whole time. I have often felt a sense of discomfort among the other people on the team, and a sense of fear that things would not improve, but it was nice to always know that, if all else failed, you’d be at every practice, making fun of me and trying to trip me.
Though you obviously played a key role in my life on the field, you also have been an incredibly important teacher for me, as well. I always wanted to take contemporary literature since I was a freshman; half because you taught it, and half because of my incredible interest in film and film studies that I had yet to explore in any other way. There are very few classes that I have taken during my time as a student at Northview that have truly been taught by