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Personal Narrative: My Experience In Football
think of a time when you worked extra hard for something and you accomplished it. What did you feel? a sense of joy and accomplishment? well that’s what I felt in these next few stories Imma gonna tell ya.
It was 2012, football had just ended and I’d never been so excited for wrestling season. I was coming off a season where I went 34-8 and was a state qualifier, getting second at both regional and sectionals. I had wrestled 75 pounds last year, but this year I was weighing 90 pounds and was gonna have to lose some weight to make 80. I had been elected captain at the end of the 2011-2012 season. I won the first couple matches of the season and going into the Olympia tournament I was 3-0 I beat a returning state qualifier in the quarter finals. In the semifinals I came out scared and got beat 12-8 I was devastated I had pinned that kid twice the year before. But I wrestled back and
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I got down early and he kept pushing the pace going into the third period I was down 6-1. I chose top, I quickly turned him to his back for a five count and got three points. We kept wrestling and i turned him again, but the ref messed up and only gave me two points so we were going into overtime. He shot in on my leg, but I slammed his head to the mat as hard as I could. It came down to this if I could just spin around and get the takedown I would go to state. I rammed my fist across his face trying to get him to break his grip he didn't let up. I did it again, this time harder I could hear the bone on bone grinding together and he gave up. I spun around and won. I lost 4-2 in the finals to the number one kid in the state, but I was okay with that. At state i was ranked 4th but wrestled bad and got 6th. But I felt like I was a state champ I had accomplished something that I had worked very hard for and no one could take that away from

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