As my favorite season of all time is nearly coming to an end, I have been reflecting and thinking about the great times I've had the past 3 months.
Being on the soccer team at Weston High School through out my years, has allowed me to collect thousands of memories that I consider some of my favorites. For me being on a team and experiencing the trust, venerability, and love that comes with that has changed me in the best ways possible. I believe that some of the lessons I have learned about friendship, life and drive, I would not have learned if I had not participated in what I now call my favorite sport. You pour out your heart and soul, and use every ounce of your energy in a work out or a game and you are able to do that because you know the girls around you are doing the same thing. You learn to deeply trust people and work hard for something you believe.
As a senior this year I was lucky enough to be voted captain of the team. I was very flattered because it reassured me that I was doing the right things and people respected me for it. Now having been a captain for 3 months I can say that it has been one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. The underclassmen really do look up to you and they don't even know how much it means to watch them grow into the team, as I see myself as a little freshman in all of them. But there is one thing that I will never forget from my senior year being a captain of the soccer team. After one game, when I was down on myself because I had thought I had played poorly, one freshman came up to me and said "I think you played really well, don't be hard on yourself, I think you are great" That made my day and when I think about it now it makes my day all over again.
So as I said before being apart of a team like this has changed me in many ways and I am so grateful I have the opportunity to be apart of something so special. Without soccer and all the girls I have met along the way that have been on my teams, I truly believe I would be a different person than I am today.
This is so nice and such a happy story. My freshman year, I played lacrosse and I loved my team. We had so much fun together. However the next year, I hated it and I ended up quitting and doing track. Reading this has made me miss playing a team sport. I love cross country and track and even though the team is still a big part of the sport, its not the same like the team you are describing.
ReplyDeleteI like the upbeat feeling behind this because I recently wrote a post about the negatives of growing up, and you put a positive spin on this. Sometimes we get so caught up on the things that we are having the last of that we forget to appreciate the privileges of being seniors. I also commend you for doing soccer all four years of high school because it shows a real commitment and a real passion.
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