It’s the bottom of the seventh of the state championship game. As my metal cleats dig into the undragged dirt I realize this is it. This is the moment I have been dreaming of. As I’m walking to second base I start to reflect on what softball has given me. I have the greatest teammates in the world. Tahoma softball has a bond that is the true definition of teammates. Softball has given me so many great opportunities and I will never be able to thank it. It was given me motivation‚ strength‚ sisters
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MANU Soccer Academy Tom Owen‚ football fanatic‚ has been in a close personal relationship with the game his entire life. Owen came to the United States from the U.K. in 1998 after receiving a soccer scholarship. After graduating‚ his passion and desire for teaching the game to youth naturally has led him into the creation of a successful training camp. His Soccer Academy‚ MANU‚ has had great success in his Colorado hometown of Fort Collins. As we explore MANU we will look at many different factors
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Transferred I’ve worked my whole life to get to the spot I am in today‚ and now there is a chance it could all go away. When I began my adventure of college soccer‚ I thought it was going to be smooth sailing from this point on. That would only make sense right? Considering I’ve worked my whole life to make my dream a reality‚ and play college soccer at the top level. Unfortunately some problems that are out of my hands could corrupt the environment at my campus. This is due to serious coaching issues
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“When are we going to the game‚ “I asked. When it was time I put on my soccer jersey and then I was ready to go see a game. We went to the car and then we to go pick up my cousin. We look for a parking space‚ but we could not find a parking space. The parking at the stadium was $60 dollars for one car and we had two cars so we would have to pay $120 for both of the cars‚ but we found a spot at a house and we had to pay $20 for both cars. When we got into the stadium but the gates where the people
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dad screamed unstoppable into my little sister’s helpless face‚ my mind raced and raced with recent memories and devastating thoughts about what just happened right in front of my eyes. My friend’s dad wasn’t going to stop‚ at least I thought this was never going to end‚ but thankfully it did suddenly when my mom‚ almost to the point of tears from rage just about yelled‚ “Relax‚ let’s hear what happened from one of the girls.” After Ronnie stated with a steady
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Does moving to a new place change everything you ever experience? Moving to a whole new descriptive place is like being pop out of your mothers belly again. Especially‚ when you move to a place where the language‚ the food‚ the people‚ school and everything else is brand new. Those type of situations‚ shape your way of living in a constructive way that will affect the rest of your lifestyle. That’s the same situation that made me have a life change into a whole new story. Almost 15 years ago‚ my
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looked as if Michelangelo had painted them himself. Her brown eyes were big and almond shaped with lashes so long they often tickled her eye lids. She was a rather short girl; about 5’1 with skinny gangly legs and arms‚ weighing no more than 90 pounds. She was meek and dainty‚ preferring to paint nails while talking about boys. I on the other hand acted like a boy. Growing up with the boys in the neighborhood I became a tomboy at heart. I had a short stature and short legs all equally defined
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Peculiar path In one of the coldest days of winter‚ I opened my eyes to this mysterious world in a private hospital located in the most entertaining city‚ Tehran. Since that day‚ my dreams and aspirations have been shaped in an odd manner in a conflict of values. I grew up in Iran in a traditional Persian family that was also influenced by western values. We were living in the middle of an Islamic Republic with a fundamentalist Islamic ideology that conflicted with my family values. “Our Family
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It was sooner‚ rather than later‚ that I had to carry things myself to gain advance my place in the world. After joining marching band my sophomore year‚ it seemed like everyone had a comment about how large my instrument‚ the synthesizer‚ was. While I only played the keyboard atop it‚ it was on a cart‚ that I had to push‚ containing the sound system for my instrument and speakers. “That thing is bigger than you are‚” teachers would remark in
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I learned most emotions from school. You would think I would have learned most of my feelings from my home life‚ but I think my parents did the best they could to cover them up and make it seem like everything was fine and dandy. I grew up in a museum of sorts‚ or
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