Soccer Reflection

Soccer is my secondary sport, i took it up sophmore year to play a sport in the fall. However this year i was very excited for the soccer season, my goals were to improve my technical skills, get in shape after a long summer and to help make this years soccer team successful. The outcomes i experienced were that i did get into shape, I did improve my technical skills, and we were the most successful Sturgis Boys Soccer team in history. One element of my experience during this activity was the younger members of the team, and the relationships i formed with them. Looking back on the season i realize that entering the fall of 2009 i did not expect to be in anyways a leader or to feel responsible for the kids on the team because soccer is "not my sport". However in at least two of my journals I give examples of a younger player who is either down, or is having a problem, and how I felt compelled to help them. I think that this is directly linked to my learning outcome four, working with others because these underclassman were inexperienced and a little lost and I realized that even though i was pretty lost too i could help them out. My second major learning outcome for soccer was number seven, considering ethical implications. This proved to be a giant topic in my blogs. In games, such as the CCA game, and the Wareham game, tempers were often high and in several cases there were shoving matches. These situations challenged me to consider what was right, let my emotions carry me away? or control myself and act as a good sport? although i did not always control myself, as the season progressed i became calmer, as you can see from my shying from a fight in the Wareham game. This gave me a chance to concentrate on my game and let the other things go, and I believe that improved my play. Soccer was a success for me, we had the most wins ever, I made some valuable bonds with others, and I worked on controlling myself in strenuous situations.