Life Changing Event

One extremely important time in my life was my freshman season of soccer. I went into tryouts not expecting a whole lot because while I loved playing soccer, it wasn't necessarily a huge part of my life. To my amazement I made varsity. The coach later pulled me aside and said, "We didn't choose you because of your skill right now. We want to see you work hard and improve and the best place to do that is on this team". I worked my ass off and about a  quarter of the way into the season I was a starter. Before this part of my life I never really had anything to work extremely hard for and I believe it taught me something about working towards a goal until you've reached it.