High school Coach

His name is Andy Lowry one of the best coaches I have ever been around. He was my high school football coach at columbine high school. When you met Coach Lowry he was always a person everyone respected, and was such an easy guy you could talk to. Coach Lowry was a guy who had all of his players trust; because he put in so much work each and every week to help the team win on game day.  He always said when we worked out “Character is you are when no one is watching”; when coach would say this it made everyone take their work load to the next level. He wasn’t the tallest or biggest coach by any means, but for some reason he had a way to get the best out of each one of his players. Coach Lowry did not just coach only during the football season; he coached the team all year long so they were prepared for the football season. He put in so many hours, and all of his work pays off when we win games every year. Coach Lowry never was a big yeller, but when he did he immediately got everyone’s attention. When someone would screw up he would always say “what were you thinking knuckle head”, this was one of Coach Lowry’s favorite lines, coach always meant business when he stepped on the football field. Coach Lowry has respect from many people around the city because of all the great things he has accomplished, and all the things he has taught young men through the game of football. Coach is definitely well respected and will go down as one of the best high school football coaches of all time. Andy never wanted the fame, every interview he had, he brought his kids to, and he always gave glory to his coaching staff and players. Coach Lowry has impacted many lives by his generosity and hard work for the community of columbine high school.

Team work

As we all know many parents get there kids involved in sports because it helps them learn character, teamwork, and leadership qualities. When you play the game of football you have to play as a team or your chances of winning are very slim. When I played football I remember a game very vividly, I was 14 years old and are football team was undefeated. We came into a game with a couple of are key players injured, but are attitude was, we could not be beaten. Well that day we lost to are rival, there team name was called the warriors. Well both are teams ended up the season winning the rest of our games; both teams only had one loss.  It ended up, we played each other again in the championship game, but this time we had all of our players healthy. When are whole team played together that night we ended up winning by fifty points. Every person on are team contributed to the big win, it was a team win because we had great teamwork. Moral of the story is, if you don’t have good team work and you don’t play as a team you will have a very difficult time trying to win games. Sometimes when a very good team plays a decent team, the decent team wins most the time if they play together as a team. In the game of football I truly believe that teamwork is the most important attribute every athlete needs to have to be successful in sports. Along with teamwork come trust, respect, and a bond that becomes very hard to break. Football is probably the biggest team sport, because you cannot win a game with just one player unlike other sports. Throughout my years of playing football teamwork is one of the most valuable things I took from the game. Football has the ability to teach more than just touchdowns and tackles. It has the tools to teach people about life lessons and things they can use for the rest of their lives.

Narative blog

It was a brisk Sunday morning, the winter weather was just right around the corner, the grass was wet and snow was covering the ground. As the game began the other team was wearing all red with a look on their face that they wanted to win. This is wear it all began an injury that could take 6 months to recover from.  On the football field you have many athletes running at each other full rate of speed, so when you get hit the outcome isn’t always good. Injuries are very common in the game of football, all athletes that play the sport can agree with the statement “football is a dangerous sport”. I myself have had my share of injuries, from broken bones, concussions, torn ligaments and cuts and bruises. On this Sunday morning all things were going according to plan, we were winning and I was playing a very good game with a interception and a touchdown within thirty minutes of the game. I felt as if everything was going according to plan until I we ran a very basic play which entitles me to go out for a long streak. Are team approached the ball, I noticed the other team playing a cover two defense which means the quarterback would most likely throw the ball to me. Next thing I know the ball was snapped and I went on my streak, the quarterback threw the long ball to me, but he threw it a little too short, I planted my right leg to come back to the ball and next thing I know I hear my knee snap. I immediately dropped to the ground in agenizing pain. I knew immediately that I tore my ACL and it wasn’t good.  So as you can see injuries can happen at any point of a game, I obviously did not see it coming.  This is important because it has such a major role into all sport topics, because injuries in sports are very common. When a Injury occurs it is never a good thing to see. Sports injuries can definitely for shadow later events, because there are a lot of events that you have to go through for an injury to happen and recover from.