My name is Jacob Leon. I am a student-athlete at Hope International University on the men's soccer team. I am a first-generation college student and my family is from Ecuador. My parents moved to the United States in 2000 and I was born in 2003. I have two older brothers who didn't have the opportunity to attend college because of expenses and work commitments. I graduated from San Marcos high school in 2021 and am blessed to have a scholarship at HIU. The most important things in my life are my faith in God and my family, without these two things I wouldn't be where I am today. I am currently studying Psychology with a concentration in sports psychology at HIU. Originally I was studying communications aiming to become a sports broadcaster. After learning about sports psychology in my first semester at HIU, I realized that sports psychology is what I want to study because helping others is a passion of mine and I want to help athletes of all levels succeed and reach their full potential by teaching them mental training strategies to improve performance and enjoy their sport. As a result, I changed my major to sports psychology. I have also seen an overall increase of improvement and enjoyment of my own game as a result of what I am studying in my sports psychology classes. I plan on graduating from HIU with a bachelor's degree in 6 semesters and then applying to graduate school which will also be here at HIU in their marriage and family therapy program. As for my career and life aspirations, I'm not exactly sure what it is I want to do or the direction I should go but I have options and open doors that God has put in my life that I can gravitate towards. Becoming a sports psychologist would be awesome and something I can see myself doing. I wouldn't mind becoming a therapist to counsel clients and help people to move forward with their lives. If I continue to play soccer and improve to get to a level where I can play professionally then I would love to take that route considering it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and an experience that is time-restricted because age does not allow you to play professionally for very long. I have also considered going into ministry and working for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). I was a student leader for FCA in high school and loved it and I know I would love to work for FCA as an area representative as well. In high school, I was an FCA student leader, a student section leader at my high school football games for ASB (associated student body), the captain for the varsity soccer team, and a spike ball club president. Since coming to Hope, I became an FCA student leader and helped FCA in its first semester at HIU. I also recently began a Bible study with my team to help my teammates wherever they're at in their faith grow in their relationship with God. My biggest accomplishment up to this point in my life has been discipling others and helping them grow closer in their relationship with God. It's been such a blessing to see what God does in and through me to the people around me. I plan on using the money I save by paying down my student loans to continue advancing God's kingdom. I want to tithe 1/10 of the money to my home church and save the rest for other projects God has for my future.