- 2023 Spotlight
Personal Statement
I have been around sports my entire life, growing up my parents always emphasized sports. From the age of five to fourteen, I played soccer on my town's travel team. Sports has always been a big influence in my life. In 7th grade, I joined my school's cross-country team just for fun. After that first year, I fell in love with running and have been training and competing ever since. Three years later and I have achieved the biggest goal I set for myself by making my team's varsity team. During that time running has taught me so much about life and myself. I spent much of my freshman year dealing with nagging injuries from overtraining, this past summer I took a step back and saw my mistakes. Learning from my past errors, I returned to Cross Country stronger than ever and have stayed healthy all year. But sports is not the only thing in my life; school is also extremely important to me. I hope that by the end of my high school career I have found success in both my academics and my running which will put me in a good place for the continuance of both in college. Thank You.
