Friday, December 4, 2015

My Sports Career vs Normal

My sports career was not very long but I feel like I did do a lot. All of them stopped after high school. My main sport was football and I played that for 10 years starting when I was 8 years old. I always enjoyed football the most and loved playing the team oriented sports. Unlike track which I only did for 4 years of middle school, I could not stand doing it. Sure you won as a team and each section and event gave points toward your ultimate goal of winning the meet. But I could not stand it was me to perform the best for the team so I can award “X” amount of points for our team. I always played baseball too aside from track but could not be apart of the baseball team in middle school because I was always told to do track because track helped with football and since football was my go to sport at the time then I thought it would make the most sense. But when high school came around, I could stand track anymore and decided to play baseball. So the last 4 years of high school I was on the baseball team and that was just about it. I am not sure if it was because playing all these sports was so sudden or what, but towards the end of my senior year in high school I started getting injured more and more and could not play. I started varsity football my sophomore year and since it was on a higher scale than junior varsity then I think that has some to do with it too. I even could have gone to Otterbein and played football there. But after high school, I felt my body was too beat up from all the sports I played. It makes all the people who do this for a living and go to D1 schools and all that look even better to me. Its a new perspective I look at it ever since I figured all that out. They have it so much harder probably because they were multi athletes too and then they have to train even harder because the tougher competition and everything. In the grand scheme of things, I guess a lot of pro players retire in their 30s which is relatively young still, but I don't think I could ever do something that long. 

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