Different paths

Everyone on Earth leads a different life down different paths. From a young age some people know exactly what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Others still don’t know even though they are adults.

It took me a long time to even get an idea of what I wanted to do with my life. I’m going to talk about sports. When I was young I played some organized sports, but I really wasn’t into it. The going to practice part really was not appealing to me as a kid, I would have rather been playing with my toys or playing Playstation. I quit playing sports till about the 8th grade which was the first year we could play sports in middle school. I chose to go out for football, basketball, and then track. This year I really didn’t know what position to try out so naturally I tried the position that my dad played when he was in high school which was running back. That didn’t work out too well because there was some very athletic kids in my class. So when it came time to try to find a kicker on the team I said “Why not?” and tried it. I turned out to be pretty decent at it (as good as an 8th grader can be).

Then basketball came around and I ended up on the B team. I kind of expected this because I wasn’t great at it but I definitely wasn’t C team material. I sat the bench most of the season, but that was kind of expected.

When track came I had no idea what to try. I just though that polevault looked fun so I gave it a try. I was actually pretty decent at that too, and almost broke my middle school’s record in that event.

Fast forward to high school I started varsity my Sophomore year at placekicker and played the rest of my career on varsity. I ended up getting offered a scholarship to play here at UNK and I’ve been here for three years so far and have played in quite a few games.

I quit basketball after my Sophomore year of high school so that is long gone. Track on the other hand I was skilled enough to get offered a scholarship to vault here at UNK. This year was my last year vaulting for the university because I decided to quit to focus on off-season football and getting ready for next fall.

The reason I talked about all of this is because I really had no idea what I wanted to do when it came to school. I was decent at designing stuff on the computer so I decided to pursue that in college, but even then I had and still have a longing to work on cars. Sports really gave me something to focus on because they were easy to access. I was forced to go to practice every day and I could compete and focus solely on that. I still am forced to go to practice and things like that but college has me focusing just as much on school as I do sports.

I am definitely one of the people who still don’t really know what I want to do with my life. Sports have been such a huge part of my life for so long that I am not sure what it is going to be like when I am no longer competing. Sure I will have my degree but maybe that’s not what I want to do for the rest of my life. All I know is that no matter what, I will work hard enough to reach whatever goals I put my mind to and I owe all of that to the years of hard work and determination that sports have demanded from me.