- 2013 Highlights
Personal Statement
My name is Skyler Clark. At my high school, The Gunnery, I started on the Varsity Soccer team as a Sophomore playing right midfielder. I was also an active member of the Varsity Basketball team last year during the winter term, and to challenge myself in the spring, I tried out lacrosse for the first time, even though I had previously played baseball my entire life. I am extremely passionate about all the sports that I play, but soccer is the one that I have been most drawn to and I take it very seriously. I have been playing soccer since I was three years old. It is a sport that I know the ins and outs of. Wherever I played soccer I was almost always placed at center mid field and because of this my vision while playing is very good. During my Sophomore year I joined a nearby club team, FC Ponte, so that I could get even more soccer in. Although balancing my time between soccer and lacrosse was at first very hard, I loved every second of it. Currently I am switching between right midfield and right defense on my high school team, but I am happy to play wherever my coach needs me the most. I do consider myself one of the leaders on the team (recently, I was made captain of our team for the 2013 season) and I take every practice and game as an opportunity to better myself and help those around me. No matter what sport I am playing, I am constantly competing with myself and those that I am playing against in order to get better and to develop my skills. Playing at the college level has been a dream that I have carried with me since the time I joined my first travel team. It is an aspiration of mine that I hope to see fulfilled and I feel that I am both committed and competitive enough to get there. Although I would like to keep my options open academically, I am interested in some form of Engineering, specifically Biomedical Engineering. I take my academics seriously, and so far I have had no problems balancing them with my athletics. I made High Honor Roll throughout my entire sophomore year (and the first term of this junior year) and was also presented with a leadership award during one of the final ceremonies. I am currently taking three AP courses as a Junior and plan on taking even more next year. A scholarship would help ease the financial pressure of college for my parents and would be a major accomplishment for myself, as well. I am actively searching for a school that I feel best accomplishes my goals both athletically and academically and I am ready to put in all the work necessary to see these goals fulfilled.
