I am reading Breakaway by Alex Morgan and I am on page 102. This book is about Alex Morgan’s life and how she became a famous soccer player. It shows the ups and downs of her career and how she overcame and dealt with hardships. In this journal, I will be rewriting a chapter from the perspective of a different person. I will be rewriting the preface of this novel in the perspective of the boy who accidently hurt Alex.…
On September, 22nd, 1995 a legend was born. Her name was Alexis Elizabeth Taparrotta, and she was one of those lucky people who is born kicking but doesn’t stop. Alexis started playing soccer at the age of three. Her parents signed her up at such a young age so she would always have a lead on other potential legends. Alexis had a weird obsession with soccer. Every single thing she owned either had something to do with soccer or had a soccer ball on it. She had a soccer bed set, books, balls that went on the ceiling that would glow in the dark when the lights were off, posters, clothes, every possible jersey worn by a soccer player. She also had every single world cup soccer ball in the…
Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. She won 3 gold medals and 2 bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, But those titles were taken away from her after she was accused and caught of steroid use (performance enhancing drugs) Jones did keep her 3 Gold Medals as a World Champion from 1997 and 1999.…
Katie Ledecky is an American competitive swimmer. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist and nine-time world champion. She has the current world-record in the women's 400-, 800-, and 1,500-meter freestyle (long course).…
Carli Lloyd, professional soccer player of the United States Women’s Soccer Team (USWNT), talks about her ups and downs of her journey to the top of women’s soccer. She starts with when she was little and how she started out playing on the local teams, then growing up to playing on club teams and her high school team. After graduating high school she went on to college a Rutgers and playing soccer their. She also played on the U-21 US team but was kicked off because her coach thought she was ready. Heartbroken by that she was ready to quit till her dad told her to call a James Galanis, head soccer trainer at Universal Soccer Academy. After calling him and deciding that she would train with him she got back on the U-23 US team and made her way…
“Her commitment to achieving at a high level academically, athletically, and personally make her an ideal choice for Lady of the…
Cathy Freeman deserves to be placed in Australians sports hall of fame because she is a role model to the younger generations and inspires them to achieve their goals.…
The humanitarian award is given to someone that is a kind and giving person, someone who puts others before themselves and willing to help anyone in need. Country artist Craig Morgan deserves to have this award, because of his outstanding foundations of fostering children in need. Craig Morgan is deserving of the humanitarian award because of his caring and kind efforts to help every child he can.…
There she was twice named the girls' High School Player of the Year by the Philadelphia Inquirer. As a high school athlete, she was known for her exceptional ball control and skill at distributing the ball from the midfield. During her senior year, she scored 26 goals and served eight assists She played on numerous club teams before her high school career. Through playing club soccer, Carli developed skills that would help her succeed in what she hoped would. She was named to the Star-Ledger All-State First Team twice. She was named the Courier-Post Player of the Year and the South Jersey Soccer Coaches Association Midfielder of the Year. After graduating high school, she moved to Rutgers University. There becoming the university's all-time leading scorer and the first player in school history to earn first-team all-conference honors for four consecutive years. Being the first athlete to do so at Rutgers, she was named First-Team All-Big East for four straight years. She ended her collegiate career as the school's all-time leader in points (117), goals (50), and shots. During her high school years, she started being rewarded for her hard work. She also played for the Medford Strikers club team as a teenager and helped them win back-to-back state cups. The Medford strikers team is very highly reputable club team when she played in still is to this day. When carli was on the Medford…
One of the less known facts about Mia Hamm is that she also enjoyed watching and playing football. This helped her later on in her soccer career, increasing her strength, structure and aggressive spirit.…
Allen Iverson is a basketball player that plays in the NBA for the Detroit Pistons. Allen Iverson also played for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Denver Nuggets earlier in his career. He is only six feet tall and weighs approximately 165 pounds soaking wet and yet Iverson is one of the most prolific scorers ever to play the game. Throughout the course of my report I will talk about Iverson's childhood, accomplishments, community service, goals, and his achievements.…
I am a big fan of Alex Morgan she has been my Idol since I started playing soccer myself. Alex Morgan is a 27 year old soccer player who plays for the United States Women’s National Soccer team. She was born on July 2, 1989 in San Dimas, CA. She has been playing since the age of 14 her position is forward and striker. Alex Morgan is known for her goals and assists but mainly for her hard work and dedication that is why she is the U.S soccer female athlete of the year.…
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Soccer mom is portrayed as putting the interests of her kid and herself in soccer. It was also used in names of organizations of mothers who support children's soccer team. Because of so much participation in community, people could trust soccer moms to be as "their neighbor". In addition, they became the swing voters who will decide the 1996 election, the columnist Ellen Goodman of The Boston Globe called 1996 "the Year of the Soccer Mom" expressing how much they involved in community.…
The first accomplishment she made was to be the first ever Hispanic citizen to be surgeon general of the U.S. She also was the first women to become surgeon general of the U.S. She was nominated this honor by president George Bush. Some of her most important initiatives are plans to enlarge AIDS prevention, to end the promotion for minors to smoke, and to deliver healthier care for kids, females, and minorities. Antonia was also a big sponsor toward the Organ Transplant Procurement Act of 1984, she also helped in creating caution tags to put on cigarette packaging. She was the first Surgeon General to bring up domestic violence as a community health problem into nationwide attention. Antonia has acknowledged many honors, including the U.S. Public Health Service Achievement Award and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Medal. I believe that she deserved each and every one of those awards.…
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 and raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. Although born with a severe case of hydrocephalus, he astonishingly recovered and learned to read at an early age. Alexie used his social rejection to concentrate on his studies. In 1985, he was awarded a scholarship to Gonzaga University where he regrettably began abusing alcohol. His college years can be described as depressing and inspiring. His alcoholism compelled him to convey his feelings on paper. Prompted by Alex Kuo, his poetry professor, Alexie engage in writing using his somber encounters as subject matter. Since his years at Gonzaga, he has published several stories and poems pertaining to Indian culture and life on the reservation. He has been presented with prestigious awards for his screenplays and novels and was named one of the twenty best young American novelists by The New Yorker. Using melancholy tones and woeful themes, Alexie broadcasts his people’s despair and brings light to the ignored feelings of a lost generation. Perpetual alcoholism, fragmented families, and racial alienation are major issues present in Sherman Alexie’s three short stories.…