Personal Statement
My relationship with the Most High God and my parents are positive influences in my life because both have taught me to work hard in order to be successful in everything I do in my life. My parents support my goals and dreams of being first of all an outstanding young man, a collegiate basketball player and ultimately a professional basketball player. My athletic goal is to achieve a high major D1 athletic scholarship. To do that I will need to maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher as my goal. I will achieve this by continuing to participate in class, complete homework assignments and study for quizzes and tests.
I started playing basketball, soccer, track and field, and football at an early age. In the last year or so, I realized that I truly enjoyed playing basketball more than the other sports. So from this year going forward, I decided to focus on improving my basketball skills and participate in personal training to improve my abilities.
I am working outside of the gym with a personal trainer which will help me become stronger and improve my endurance and speed. I also do track and field and my focus is high jump. My personal best this year was 5 feet 8 inches.
I'm very confident that my teammates and coaches can count on me and know that I will always give 110% both in classroom as well as on the court. My mental as well as physical abilities and my ability to handle the ball very well will help my team. I am a very defensive minded player first and everything else comes out of my ability to play good defense.
