The Benefit of Sports Athletics is ingrained in the human experience and is an integral part of American culture. Because of that‚ many of my weekends and after school hours have been dedicated to either watching a game or starting one with the kids in the neighborhood. Athletics runs deep in my family. My great uncle was a professional baseball player and my family‚ including my father‚ three brothers and a sister‚ are all very involved with the various team sports. It’s this immersion into various
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Jose Alfredo Villacis Morla Global Leadership Paper#1 Being one of the captains on my high-school soccer team Leadership experience happens everywhere‚ every time‚ and people don’t realize them until your followers or the situation let you know you are acting as a leader. Definitely being a leader is not easy. It depends in different factors or abilities. One of them is the personality of the person who is trying to act as a leader. The other is the position because in most cases the leader
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I believe that my strongest position for ASB would be Sports commissioner due to me being an athlete at GFHS. Other positions I would like to run for would be Spirit commissioner and At Large commissioner. I believe that being Sports commissioner is a excellent position for me because I am part of both the Godinez Cross country and Track Varsity programs‚ both of which I have excelled in since I was a freshmen. Showing dedication and hard work on a sport can demonstrate my will power to perform at
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Organized sports are an important part of a student’s total education. The values derived from the positive experience of participation in a good athletic program are immeasurable and will carry into other aspects of a student’s life. Values like effort‚ attitude‚ honesty‚ respect and sportsmanship will be taught everyday. A primary concern of mine as a coach on the collegiate level is for each player to excel in the classroom and leave with a marketable degree at the end of her college experience
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“Forever Strong” is a movie that demonstrates the characteristics and importance of teamwork. Granted‚ anyone can call themselves a team‚ but there are certain characteristics that actually determine whether you are a team or just a group of people. The Highland Rugby team does a great job at demonstrating the characteristics that are essential to being a team. One important factor that makes Highland a team is‚ the members of that team are proud of their identity and what they represent. They
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In my opinion we need more people like Coach Pennington. It’s hard to find people like him. People that are Helpful‚ has passion‚ is well respected by others‚ has a fabulous personality‚ and many other things. Sometimes he can get a little mad on the court but he’s learning to calm down. He’s a really great guy overall even if it doesn’t look like it. One thing Coach Pennington has is honesty. To me honesty is just always telling the truth. Benjamin Franklin once said‚ “Honesty is the best policy
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Being one of my high school’s student leaders‚ both on and off the court‚ both inside and outside the classroom and both inside and outside my immediate community‚ has taught me that family is first‚ consistency is key‚ and consensus on the one common goal ensures success. As the captain of my Freshman Basketball team and now as the Head Manager of my Varsity Women’s Basketball team‚ this lesson has been learned over and over again in the past four years. I carry this with me everywhere I go. In
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The person who embodies all the aspects of a great mentor‚ look no further my nomination is my mentor Nina L. Lanza. She is not an ordinary mentor‚ but an extraordinary one. My mentor designed a project specifically for me‚ showed me I was a priority‚ and gave me an opportunities to help shape my future in my image. Too many students are brought to LANL with the only goal that the students should make their mentors’ life and work easier. They are given predesigned generic projects‚ or simple tasks
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Book Review on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was written by Dr Stephen R Covey who was born in 1932. The book was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1989 and has sold around 15 million copies word-wide. The seven principles he presents in the 7 Habits are not original thoughts - he does not claim to have originated the ideas but simply to have found a framework and a language for articulating the time-less principles embedded into the
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens In the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey brings 7 key things teens need to live a productive‚ open‚ and successful life to the table. Covey took 7 concepts teens are hesitant to tap into and made them easy to understand and adapt to. He manages to capture his audiences attention by sharing stories of other teens that we could easily relate to. Although each aspect of the habits were relatable to each aspect of my life‚ I was most engaged
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