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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