College Admissions Essay: An Analysis Of My Soccer Career
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The amount of hours spent zealously training, the amount of miles traveled across the country, the amount of times I have kicked the hexagon panels physically cannot be counted. My soccer career all started when I was a little mite chaotically running around. The passion began as a recreational activity but as I aged, increased into a sport that would not only take me across the country but also to an athlete's agony.
Most athletes can relate to the physical and mental agony that injuries entail. By the time I was seventeen, I had suffered two torn ligaments in my knee, a fractured skull, fractured sinus, fractured pelvis and two surgeries. Needless to say, giving the fact my injuries were all from soccer, my graduation from recreational playing to intense competition had its benefits but also evoked a perpetual predisposition to injury; during my last year of being sideline I experienced a…show more content… Conversely, these portents lie at the lowermost of my concerns now. Admittedly, it’s the raw character traits I have developed from soccer that defines me as a player and furthermore allows me to carry on in life full of a chiseled character.
On or off the field, when the last whistle pierces the air of my high school career, the ambivalent sensation will pierce me just as sharp as the whistle will to my ear. Inevitably, the years of games will come to a halt, but the years of cultivated leadership, reverence and probity will persevere onwards.
From the monumental Beaumont Tower to the boisterous Breslin Center, Michigan State University buzzes with 50,000 students each bearing their own story and their own experiences; the elegance behind such an immense amount of students is that no student is the same. My story differs from the other 49,999 just as theirs does to mine. What would a community or campus be without diversity and