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Play Basketball Freshman Year
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Brown Hair Six Weeks
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Varsity Volleyball Coach Varsity Volleyball Balicki
1,104 wordsA wise woman once said, An athlete with a winners attitude makes commitments, a loser makes promises. This is one of the most important lessons I have learned. A very remarkable person taught it to me. A woman to whom I owe a lot. Someone I look up to and admire greatly. This wise woman that has changed my life for the better is Mrs. Heidi Balicki, my Varsity Volleyball Coach. Over the last two years I have gotten to know her as both a coach and a friend. Her philosophy of always working hard an...
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High School Athletics Good Or Bad Influence
1,149 wordsHigh School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football is a way of life. This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school football players. In this movie, Jon Moon played by James Van Der Beek assu...
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Group Of Friends Day Of School
1,390 wordsMy socialization while growing up had everything to do with my parents. In my household I didn't have just one certain style of parenting. My mother was a permissive parent, and my father was very much an authoritative dad. This was able to happen because my father travels a lot of the time and is out of the house, therefore giving me the chance take advantage of my mom being so much of a push over. When my father was gone on business I could get away with anything such as not cleaning my room, ...
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Years Of My Life Four Years
1,355 wordsWhen I want something in life, I know that it usually does not come easy. Hard work and dedication is involved. For the past eleven years of my life, I have been a full time dancer. I started tying those jazz shoes onto my feet at age six, never thinking that one day they would come off. I still will slip them on once in a while, when I get an urge to prance around in front of the mirror, or attend a small dance audition. After my third year of dancing at my studio, I was definitely craving the ...
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My Personal Support Group Cheerleading
553 wordsMy Personal Support Group Honors English 11 August 31, 1999 I am often sorry that my parents did not take it upon themselves to enroll me in any recreational activities in my preadolescent years. I believe that sports are an integral part of growing up. They provide an opportunity to meet and interact with peers. Numerous occasions I can recall feeling excluded from the group because of my lack of involvement. Although I have to admit, I am not a tough girl. Most likely I would not excel in any ...
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Good Sportsmanship High School Team
349 wordsCatching the Spirit The American Heritage Dictionary defines sportsmanship as, an act in which one abides by the rules of a contest and accepts victory or defeat graciously. All those in athletics are not the only ones who need to be good sportsmen. It must also be required by coaches, cheerleaders, fans, and school administrators. Two years ago, Morningside High School was in our junior varsity tournament. Since they traveled so far to be in our tournament, we treated them very well. We provide...
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Unable To Play Dropped Through The Net Ball
942 wordsWhile standing at the three-point line, the ball seemed to be in slow motion. Screams from the crowd came as the ball dropped through the net. Not only did this shot go in, but also dropped through the net with such force that it made a sound that was heard throughout the gym. The place was packed and the fans were on their feet, I had just hit my first three pointer of my varsity basketball career. As our team set up the press, sweat dripped from my face. My opponent was close enough that I cou...
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Ranked Number One Number One In The State Team
597 wordsDescribe and Football Personal Statement Describe and discuss a significant experience or achievement that has special meaning to you. The 1998 varsity football season was both a significant experience and achievement for me. It was so extraordinary that it defiantly has a special meaning to me. As a team we won North Coast Section (NCS) of California, Division III, and were ranked number one in the state, Division III. This immense reward was not simply given out to every team but instead we ha...
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Boarding School College Education
624 wordsWhat Motivates You To Seek A College What Motivates You To Seek A College Education Why Is Berea College A Good Choice For You What motivates me to seek a college education? In addition, why Berea College is a good choice for me. December 16, 2000 The last couple of years have been a long bumpy ride for me, as they have for everyone my age. No matter what, everyone has experienced many of the same? teenage? circumstances as I have and has dealt with them in their own way. As a personal participa...
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Faint Hearted People Who Don Faint Hearted People Movie
559 wordsGot the Blues? Every little thing counts unless you wrote the movie review of Varsity Blues. The reviewer for Our Take at Screen It. Com obviously did not come from a town where sports where heavily pushed nor does it seem that he or she has ever played a competitive sport. The repetitiveness of calling it an MTV high school generation movie lacks telling what it is actually about. The author does not explain all of the points that the movie makes. It mainly focuses on the down side of the movie...
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Lose Weight Weight Loss
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Arthur Hoop Dreams
1,127 wordsMain Hoop Dreams HOOP DREAMS Main Idea The book Hoop Dreams Paul Robert Walker shows how life can work against you in every way imagined no matter how hard you work. It shows how all good can turn to bad in the blink of an eye and how all your dreams can be thrown away after everything you? ve worked towards completing. The story is based on two men Arthur Agee and William Gates who? s lives are basically recorded from their freshman year in high school to their senior year of playing basketball...
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Varsity Tennis Team First Robotics Program Year
559 wordsNational Merit Scholarship Would you please get the mail, my mother implored as I entered the door. Heading towards the mailbox, I wondered if I would find daily assortment of bills and catalogues or something interesting addressed to me. To my delight, the first item was the new issue of PC Computing. Ever since I was introduced to computers when I was five, I have been fascinated by them. The summer before my sophomore year of high school, I wrote a program called Quick change 95 using Visual ...
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High School Students Personality Traits
2,106 wordsSports and Culture: Do Sports Help Kids Become Better People? Many parents major concern today is that their children stay ahead of the pack, and keep an edge over the competition. For this reason, schools are filled with children in enriched and accelerated programs. Children are being started in competitive sports like swimming, basketball, golf and tennis at a very early age. Being exposed to such competitiveness and pressure, how does this effect a child socially? Does it build character? Of...
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Valley Varsity Football Valley Varsity Football Team Unity
786 wordsThere Team Unity Team Unity There were five seconds left in the game and it was our ball. The score was 7 - 6 in favor of the hated Clayton Valley varsity football team. Down at our own twenty-yard line was the site of the final battle that would decide who won the war. The referee blows his whistle and both sides line up head to head. Steam coming from the helmets was a sure sign of a long hard battle. I clinched my hand around the ball ready to hike it. The feeling of nervousness ran through m...
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Violence In Sports Part Of The Game
1,632 wordsThe theories of sport mirroring society, violence as a result of economic incentive, and the influence of the crowd behavior are the theories that I feel are responsible for the increasing violence in sports. Most people when involved in a highly stressful situation where violence is around would probably resort to a fight to resolve their differences. In sport, why should we expect any difference. In events such as hockey games, where people are expected to hit and make body contact, sooner or ...
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