Portland earlier this spring‚ I made new friends and they asked me to join them and play basketball together. It has been a long time since my last basketball game then. As a result‚ my skills have dropped and did not play as well as I used to be while I was in elementary school. I was pretty disappointed with myself. However‚ my friends gave me a lot of support and told me that I had the potential to become very good in basketball. They praised me that even though my shooting were not accurate‚ I was quick
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He was huge‚ and wore all black. The only thing that didn’t quite add up to his scary demeanor was perhaps his two protruding buckteeth. Worse came to worse‚ as he was assigned to sit next to me! That came to be the day where he would torture me non-stop. I remember how would follow me around and pick on me. He would always steal my school supplies and lie about it‚ to such an extent that I had to label everything including each marker from the already
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Earth‚ so what is it that makes me so different? I wear Nike‚ I drive a car‚ I play video games‚ I have chores‚ and could be considered a pretty normal person. I love‚ I laugh‚ I get angry‚ and I have emotions just like every other human being. The one thing I heavily identify with is football. For as long as I can remember I’ve played ball‚ and made some great friends along the way. The picture in the top left is a great representation of this. Football has taught me lessons of leadership‚ perseverance
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days. Soccer has helped me to make friends everywhere‚ win many championships‚ and push myself to my limits to get better at it. My father always wanted me to play soccer and be part of a important team.
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The Move Just thinking about that warm‚ June day‚ still brings tears to my eyes. I have always loved my life the way it was; waking up‚ eating breakfast‚ going to school‚ learning‚ leaving school‚ go to dance until late‚ come back home and do homework‚ and then go to sleep. This was my daily routine. I always had to make sure that I worked hard‚ which I did. For school‚ I was in the third grade and currently in all honors courses. In dance‚ I was doing a solo‚ had four group numbers‚ and a production
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was never work for me‚ tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle the longer the match‚ the more fun I had.” I love this quote from Jimmy Connors because the work‚ the fight‚ and the competition of tennis have had a serious influence on my character and my life. The attributes I have gained through tennis have taught me how to strive for my goals and to learn from my mistakes. They have taught me the importance of community and working with others as a team. They have provided me a mental toughness
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benefits. I believe that this scholarship can help me get through college. I graduated high school in three years. Some would say that I am smarter than most my age because I was able to accomplish this. I didn’t graduate high school in three years because it was easy. I graduated early because I worked hard and found the right motivation that I needed to keep going. My greatest supporters were my parents and two close friends. They constantly reminded me of assignments I may have
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that I took great pleasure in working on‚ other than school‚ is basketball. This sport is very important to me because basketball is something that is overlooked but it requires a lot of discipline‚ which helps me to train myself to stay in shape and to create a better wellbeing of myself. I do not practice to prove myself to anyone‚ I just know basketball is a sport that has stuck with me for a long time‚ and it is a sport that I never want to give up on. Every day for the past 4 years
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Baseball is more than a game‚ practice‚ and even a life lesson. Baseball to me‚ has become my life and has made me who I am because of it. This sport has done numerous things in my life to change it forever. The people I have met‚ the things I have learned‚ and the challenges that I have overcome. I believe that this sport has taught me to be the self confident person that I am today. This game started every saturday‚ since teeball‚ in a small town no one has ever heard of called Iowa Falls. My dad
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“She shoots‚ she misses‚ she scores!” Throughout my childhood‚ soccer like a rock that kept me stable. At four years old‚ as I dribbled with a ball at my feet‚ across the field‚ I became distracted by the grasshoppers bouncing from blade to blade in the grass. I fell in love with the game as I scurried around aimlessly‚ hoping to place the ball in the little yellow-rimmed pug net. My love for the game never subsided‚ but as the years went by‚ the game became more difficult than scoring in those
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