Personal Statement

One of my earliest childhood memories is from the age of two, pleading with my parents to allow me to stay up longer and watch the 2008 Super Bowl game, New York Giants take on the New England Patriots. I was not fond of either team competing however, the passion I had for the sport of football far exceeded my dislike for both teams. My collegiate goals and aspirations began at an early age and has grown and matured ever since. When some kids dreams their big goals of playing at the collegiate level, I was four years old, putting in work at six in the morning on a Saturday with my coach, catching football, learning routes, and perfecting my understanding of the game of football. I not only dream of playing at a Division 1 College, I make personal goals each year, each start of the new football season, and work on them night and day. I study films, I practice on average six days a week, I film myself when practicing in my one-on-one session so that I can learn from my own mistakes and not make them once it is game time. I not only want to play Division 1 football college football, I train for it, I envision it, and I make sure that everything and every decision I am making now, is aligned with my ultimate goal of earning a D1 football scholarship by 2024. 

What makes me a good candidate for a D1 team is my commitment to my team and the sport, my leadership skills on and off the field, my passion that honestly cannot be contained for football, my drive and work ethic. I never back away from a challenge, I take them on, ask my coach questions when I need help, and embrace the newness that I know I will experience from my growth. I am committed to not just myself and hold myself to the highest standard and level of accountability but to my teammates as well. I help new players learn the game, I lead by example and I am the first person to own up to my own mistakes not just in the game but at practice as well. I do not make excuses and make sure that I know what I did in order to improve it and not let it happen again. I am known from both coaches and teammates to be the spark that lights victory fires, I celebrate my teammates accomplishments, our team accomplishments, as well as my own, just the same. My overall drive and focus on my dream to play D1 football wakes me up early on weekends to train in my regularly scheduled one-on-one sessions with my coach. 

What makes me different from other recruits in my character is my loyalty, sense of optimism, and persistence. This also translates into the classroom, I am a student athlete and handle my business in the classroom so that I not only do not let myself down but my team as well. I have true grit and see things through from start to finish, I am committed to process and win or lose, try to find the lesson in each. I enjoy math, science and social studies, learning about past and present, rational patterns and use this knowledge to help me learn about environments I interact in and with. I would say what makes me stand out overall is that I am self-aware, have sound knowledge and grasp of my strengths and areas for improvement and I do not let obstacles stop me from achieving the goals I have set for myself, I use them to define my character and make me a better man, not just in sports but life.