My Agrument to Save Sports

The budget at Cudahy High school has been challenged because of the bill that has been passed.  To accommodate for the new budget someone who has a high standing, and authority was asked to give ideas to make the budget more workable.  Well the person had an idea to make cuts to the athletic budget.  It was to be proposed at the next board meeting to cut the co-op sports.  So I made a decision to go, and speak at the board meeting to make sure that this did not happen.  To prepare to go there and talk I went to two board meeting before hand so I could understand how they worked.

What does a sport mean to me, and the others who join them?  A sport is more then just something my friends and I do after school.  Every week I set goals for myself so this way I have something to stride for each week.  I push myself to the limit I analyze myself all the time.  I look at what I can do to make myself a better athlete.  I eat healthier, work myself outside of practice, and I make sure my grades are something my coach can be proud of.  These things mentioned don’t just go for me, but for the whole team.  My team members are my family.  They aren’t just people I work with.  We are a family, which is what a sport makes people, they make them a family.  We sweat, and bleed together.  We all push each other to the limit we always look out for one another because that is what a being in a sport entails.  You learn multiple things being on a team, you learn how to trust each other, how to respect people, and most of all you learn how to be a leader.

Sports inspire people to do their best in every thing they do.  If it wasn’t for my involvement in sports I don’t know where I would be today.  Sports taught me how to be a leader not just at practice or around my team, but every where I go I am a leader.  I made friends that will last a lifetime because of how close we have gotten while in the sport.  Something that I would have never have developed if not for the sports I have participated in they gave me the confidence to be myself, and that being myself is just enough.  Sports gave me the attitude of “I am a winner” I try my best at everything I do.  So as long as I try my best I am a winner in my coaches’ eyes just as much as my own.

Sports don’t just teach us lessons, but they give us a chance and a dream to go places we never thought we could go.  Personally I would never have gone to the college of my dreams if it wasn’t for the sports that I participate in.  Sports give us all a chance to have a dream.  They give us scholarships to go to colleges or universities that we wouldn’t think about without the sports.  Many people dream about doing something, but athletes make it happen.

I went to the board meeting and spoke.  I addressed how sports gave me the confidence to stand up in front of the board, and protect something that I love and believe in.  I asked the board if they were prepared to rip families apart, and if they were willing to kill the dreams of the athletes who don’t have much, and this dream is the only thing they have.  Well the board ruled in my favor at the end of the night.  Co-op sports would not be cut, but they would stay.