Being a student athlete throughout my life has made me the successful person I am and who I hope to stay for years to come. Whether it of been with hard practices that required a deep grind, or stern coaches getting on me and my teammates, i’ve always lived under pressure and high stress environments. With this, i’ve found schooling and academic success to come easy to myself along with my hobbies being easier to pick up especially if they correlate with athleticism or strength. More importantly, being in a team sport as a student has taught me countless life lessons. One big one being that it doesn’t matter how good you are individually on your team, what matters most is how cohesive and likable you are no matter what team you’re placed with. being able to figure out who people really are and figuring out how to bond with them and bring a team together as one builds a cohesive environment of athletes who turn into life long friends and eventually typically always succeed due to this cohesive base of sports in high school. Never the less forgetting about the school work that must be turned in to be able to play these sports to experience such an invigorating atmosphere of students who all aim to beat out their teammates not out of spite, but out of brotherly competition to make another guy better whilst making yourself better at the same time. I feel once someone has been on a team that bonds together and works through team based issues as a whole, they then know what it’s like to work in a successful business or work environment as a team to get as efficient of work done as possible. Along with this, being on a team sport helps you deal with how to take a loss in life after working extremely hard for a win, because if you are a sore loser in a team sport, that energy spreads like a cancer among the team rotting the teams mental bond psychologically and mentally bit by bit. Lastly, being a student athlete has brought me much appreciation for the people around me and what they’ve dubbed for me to shape me into the person I am today being as successful as I am is largely due to the experiences i’ve had with past teams whether we were good or bad teams.