Alex Maldonado '18 Recruiting Profile

I am a very outgoing individual who has grew up doing what was expected of me. I am a very disciplined individual who takes soccer and academics very seriously.  I have never failed a course throughout my school years because I push myself to do my best, and soccer keeps me on my track to doing my best because regardless of the rules the school has about eligibility my parents enforce that I have to pass all classes to participate in sports. I want to also be the first member of my family to graduate college. I am very involved in FBLA and FFA which helps keep me grounded as an individual. Many people in the small town I live in end up staying and not venturing out. I always told myself that I was going to go places and not be stuck in the town in which I grew up in. My biggest accomplishment is what my assistant coach told me after my Sophomore year. Here is the back story. I did not make the team my Freshmen year. I was really upset about it and pushed myself all summer and fall to get ready for tryouts during my Sophomore year. It paid off because I made the team my Sophomore year. I will remember my assistant coach telling me that he was amazed about the discipline I had from tryouts my first year to the end of my Sophomore year. The coach told me I was like a whole new player with a whole new confidence and was very coach able.  I also play for a classic 2 team from Richmond Hill GA called the Hooligans.  I live my life to the fullest and give everything I got 100% of my effort and time. I look forward to a future in college regardless of whether or not I play soccer in college. I know I am going to make something of my life and be the first in my family to get a college diploma.