This is it! The last weekly blog! I have enjoyed creating this blog so much. It has given me such an outlet to express myself, understand others, health tricks, and so much more.
The blog started off as the stigma around athletes and it became more as I moved throughout the weeks of posting. It was mainly for people to understand athletes but I feel like that creates a separate stigma towards athletes. But now, it’s a blog anyone can use to find tips and treats to start and understand others with an open mind.
This week I will finish it with my favorite athletes and quotes and people and general that motivate me to keep going!
The first quote I would like to share is my Serena Williams.
throughout my journey jumping from sport to sport I would always move on when I failed because I thought I was good at it, but in fact I just didn’t give myself a second try to try again.
Serena Williams has this one quote that is engrained in my head:
” I really think a champion is not defined by their wins, but how they recover when they fall”- Serena Williams
This quote I don’t just use for my sport I use this quote to get me through the school/work day. Failure is normal and all you got to do to succeed is get back up and try again.
I personally am a huge hockey fan and I tend to follow my local team in California the San Jose Sharks and the Maple Leafs. From those teams my favorite players have been Erik Karlsson and Auston Matthews.
They just have always pushed there hardest to achieve a great balance with teams and always find a way to shine through. I know that Softball and Hockey are different then each other and many ways but I have always enjoyed comparing how the values of both are the same as well as all the other sports in the world today that consist of a team atmosphere. Being team that is successful come from core values that these to players bring to the table in my opinion.
A female athlete I look up too is SIS Bates. She is an all American Shorts stop that came out of the Washington huskies program and set the bar for the best and greatest short stop of all time.
When growing up I was a middle infielder so tend to look at older college player start play my position and learn from them. So I remember one day vividly, coming home from school and searching Sis bates highlights and being in awe.
I gave myself the dream to go D1. I always doubted myself everyday, but I guess hardworking pays off and that’s what sis bates taught me when watching her as a little girl, just waiting to be the best. And well now I don’t play middles I am the exact opposite… a catcher.
Don’t forget you make you’re limits don’t let anyone make them for you!
A very very short blog today but I have enjoyed every second of it! I have learned to love expressing myself through writing. Not just know this is a graded assignment but it is also for me to go back look at when finished. Shout out to Prof. Bedell for assigning this blogs throughout this semester. I have learned so much about myself and what I am passionate about.
Well that is all! Thank you for following along. But this is were the road ends!
Thank you!
After reading your passion blogs from the last 10 weeks, I really enjoyed how each week you had a different topic related to being an athlete. You wrote about stereotypes, your own experiences, and what your life is like. I think the style of your writing and the topics you talked about were really engaging and interesting to read. Overall, I liked your topic and passion blog throughout.