Personal Narrative: Water Polo
In my life, I have encountered many types of challenges. I have been through all types; small, average, and large. No matter the size, they all affected me in some way to shape the way I think, feel, or do something. One example of this would be water polo. Making the varsity water polo team this year has shaped me overall to work harder, try harder, and believe harder. Academically speaking, I am not the best student. I am not the straight A student with all AP classes or close to perfect SAT scores. I have always worked hard in school and tried my best to keep up with my grades and try to go to college. Water polo has, since I started freshman year, made me work 10x harder on my grades than I thought possible. And once I made the varsity
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For example when I was younger I played soccer for 8 years, which helped me grow my passion for other things besides soccer even stronger. When I joined water polo, I had to try out for the team, which made me nervous because I wanted to make the team. I then found out that nobody gets cut which made me feel a whole lot better. Once on the team for my freshman year, I really didn’t play much, and I feel as if I was the worst one on the team. I couldn’t keep up with all the other girls and I was falling behind. I had to get myself back on track and eventually I became better. I became so much better than my sophomore year I moved up to JV. I just had to keep pushing myself and my junior year I became JV captain, which was almost good enough for varsity, my coach told me. And finally, now my senior year on varsity with all my other senior friends who have worked just as hard as I have to reach up to this point. Throughout this 4 year challenge, certain things have gotten in my way, like my lack of self confidence. Each time I was feeling hard on myself, I had to think about my sport and how water polo is one of the hardest sports you can play This made me feel so much better because I realize many people cant even swim or float in the water so the fact that I can play water polo and I am actually halfway-decent is really amazing to me. At my faults, I needed to realize that I can achieve great things with a little believing in yourself, and with being on varsity, believing in myself has shaped me all 4 years and especially this year knowing I’m on the highest team you can be
For example when I was younger I played soccer for 8 years, which helped me grow my passion for other things besides soccer even stronger. When I joined water polo, I had to try out for the team, which made me nervous because I wanted to make the team. I then found out that nobody gets cut which made me feel a whole lot better. Once on the team for my freshman year, I really didn’t play much, and I feel as if I was the worst one on the team. I couldn’t keep up with all the other girls and I was falling behind. I had to get myself back on track and eventually I became better. I became so much better than my sophomore year I moved up to JV. I just had to keep pushing myself and my junior year I became JV captain, which was almost good enough for varsity, my coach told me. And finally, now my senior year on varsity with all my other senior friends who have worked just as hard as I have to reach up to this point. Throughout this 4 year challenge, certain things have gotten in my way, like my lack of self confidence. Each time I was feeling hard on myself, I had to think about my sport and how water polo is one of the hardest sports you can play This made me feel so much better because I realize many people cant even swim or float in the water so the fact that I can play water polo and I am actually halfway-decent is really amazing to me. At my faults, I needed to realize that I can achieve great things with a little believing in yourself, and with being on varsity, believing in myself has shaped me all 4 years and especially this year knowing I’m on the highest team you can be