Extra-Curricular activites I do
SOCCER TEAM
Soccer has been a part of my life since I was in fourth grade, which was eight years ago, and it has influenced my life in an enormous way. Soccer for me has always been a way in which I can let go of my stress and anxiety and place all my strength and focus on one simple goal, which is to score. However, through the years soccer turned into a place where I met my closest friends and learned what teamwork means. I have been lucky enough o be chosen to be the captain of the team for 4 years, two in Mexico and two in Canada, and that responsibility helped me increase my understanding of others, my patience, and my empathy as well. Being on a soccer team has gotten me a family, has made me become a better person, and has helped me feel at peace many times when I thought it was impossible. Therefore it is safe to say soccer is extremely important for me.
BASKETBALL
Basketball is a sport that has given me many friends as well, and it has made me a much more resilient person. Basketball was extremely hard at first as I am very competitive and very hard on myself regarding sports. When I first joined basketball, I was not good, I wasn't fast enough, and my shots weren't precise nor accurate, my jumps weren't high enough, and my reaction time on defense was very slow to what was needed on the team, which made me very mad and frustrated with myself throughout many games and practices. However, basketball is a sport that has taught me to stand up again when you're down and try and try again until you achieve what you are trying to do. I would become extremely defeated and speak unwell of my skills, yet when I started to practice and practice and change my attitude towards the sport, I started to see results. MY reaction time was getting faster, more of my shots were going in, and my speed had improved a lot, making me win one of the MVP (most valuable player) awards that season, rewarding my hard work and my resilient attitude towards my feeling of defeat in this sport. So basketball, for me, is exceptional as it taught me that if you want something, you have to work for it.
National Honor's Society
RUGBY TEAM
Rugby is a sport that made me realize just how special I can be. This sport took me out of my comfort zone and challenged me to numerous things that I would've never done due to my own personal fears. Funny thing about my involvement with this sport, isn't that I was afraid of the contact and agressivness that comes with, but I was nervous of socializing with girls who are older than me, causing an anxiety attack to surge within me on my first practice, challenging me to fight my social anxiety and my idea that I wasn't on the varsity level. Rugby made me feel extremely special, and loved and needed which is something that everyone's likes to feel once a while. When I made it into the varsity team while being a junior in 8º grade, I was the happiest I've ever been. It reassured me that the voice in my head telling me I'm not good is extremely wrong, and that ignoring it will get me very far. A year passed and I was still the only junior on the varsity team, but I now was on 9º grade. However, I still won a prize that is only given to seniors, and earned the all year round athlete award at my boarding school in Canada. For me rugby, is what pushed me out of my shell and broke my limits once too many times, and I'm eternally grateful for it. As well as in soccer I gained a family and a safe space to be free, but within this sport I also gained confidence in myself, which is something I would never change.
VOLLEYBALL
Volleyball for me wasn't about winning, as weird as it sounds, and for those who know how competitive I am, it does sound weird. Volleyball for me started as a place in which I could have fun and laughed with the other girls on the team. We would go to practice and laugh until our stomach was in pain, and then laugh some more. I loved the two years I was in volleyball, but I ended up loving more the family I obtained from this sport. I know I've said that about every sport, but here there was no pressure to win because we weren't good, and there was no pressure to be the best. In this team, the only thing they asked from you was to be yourself and to be free of any other expectations that would've been placed on you in any other sport. For Mr volleyball was a place in which I felt at peace and I loved every second of it.
Graduation Committee
The National Honor Society (NHS) is a nationwide organization for high school students in the United States and outlying territories, which consists of many chapters in high schools. Selection is based on four criteria: scholarship (academic achievement), leadership, service, and character. For me, it has been a huge privilege to be invited into this organization throughout my last two years of high school and to be voted to be one of the executive positions within my school. This organization has been extremely rewarding for my hard academic work and we, as a group has achieved to organize different activities in school. We have also achieved different charities work like make wish and also different empowering movements like the first Women's Day at Peterson school. NHS has given me the opportunity to expand my community and to organize events for which I'm very passionate, it also has given me the chance to hear what my fellow schoolmates need and work on completing those needs for them as a community.
The Graduation Committee is voted on by the whole generation and 6 people are chosen based on the results. These 6 people have to plan the graduation party for about 600 people, the graduation trip for 46 graduates, the graduation video, the events at school and out of school, and have to coordinate with the leaders of the school and the rest of their generation to achieve doing something all people like and contribute to. I was lucky enough to be chosen by my generation and was in charge of planning the graduation trip, and the events in and out of school. Due to the pandemic, we couldn't complete the trip, and only obtained permission to do one event at school without the rest of the students. However, I organized different activities, for example, The Oscars which is an Instagram activity, I also organized the activity for teacher's day which consists of writing a speech to every teacher and uploading it in a video format, and last but not least I organized one last soccer match between the seniors and the 11º. This day for me is very special as it will be my last match with the Peterson jersey, and representing my school, which for me has been an honor and a privilege. So the graduation committee has helped me become more organized, develop my leadership skills, to look at both perspectives in a conflict, and it has given me the opportunity to plan my last day as a student-athlete in my school, which again is the best gift I could've received.