Sebastien Vainqueur Leckie Per: 6 MY Autobiography Itall started in the third grade; | learned everything | could about football. I learned all the positions, stances, and everything. use this to my advantage for when |aind the MCSA Cowboy. This made me a step ahead of everyone else on my team. I've been through a lot with my teammates and enjoyed every minute of it all. My first year playing football was the most meaningful experience of my life because football is a big part of my life and | ove igAso,f| never decided to try something new, | robably wouldn't be playing my favorite sport right now. 2. hey avag probably woul playing my port rigt - Aweak, mm paragraph When | was in third grade, that’s when I started getting aggressive. Because Iwas young, Iliked | to mimic things. | loved to mimic WWE and football, but there was one big problem: only had sisters. ''ve always wanted a brother but that never happened so | played with my sisters as if they were brothers to me. They always hated when | would rough house with them which led to hurting my sister and | got in trouble with my dad. Because my dad noticed | was a very active and aggressive child he thought of an idea. One day he came home from work and asked me if | wanted to join a football team. At first | didn’t want to but I decided to try something new and plus there were other people to play ulm, with that wouldn’t wine ail the time so | marched back to my dad and said “Dad, | changed my mind, | really want to join this team.” Finally it was my first day of practice. | got my pads, put them on and was off to the practice yrere ow field, at first | was still kind of doubting football until we di hitting drils. Oklahoma's was my favorite. “ 5 The drills got me really excited. We then learned all the basics for football such as how to tackle, how to!Sebastien Vainqueur Leckie Per:6 catch the football, how to run the ball, and running full speed with the ball in our hands. “fweet tweet” goes coach James whistle. We all knew what that meant. Practice was over. We all took off our pads and walked to our parents. | was excited for our next practice, which led me to staying up all night. A couple weeks in my dad asks “How do you like it so far,” And I say “It's great, it’s like kid heaven because you get to hit ather people and not get in trouble for it.” My dad laughed with a big smile on his face. Finally came position day, which is where you try out for a position you want to play. | tried out for wide recelver and got a starting spot. | had butterflies in my stomach because I never a vot | played football before and | already got a starting oe which made me wonder “What if the kids on the £IF you run full speed, you'll never other team hurt u8/ But | thought back to what my coach always sai get hurt.” Every game I would repeat this in my head so | made sure | wouldn’t get hurt. But in our third to last game we were facing the so called “Almighty bears.” They were known to be the best and biggest team in our division. During this game I wasn't thinking about what my coach tld me and got scared of the players on the other team, which led to me getting hit hard and spraining my knee. | was upset because my doctor told me | couldn't play in my next game and possibly our last game of the season depending on how much | icd my knee. This motivated me to work hard. Well rest hard, As | sat at home icing my knee, | kept thinking I'm going to come back strong. I've missed a lot so I've got to show them what I've got this last game, It was finally game day. | felt | did pretty good and so said my coaches. Me ‘working hard that season led to me wining MVP. This was a great moment especially because | won prea Be — yon e008 han This event was important because that season got me to love football. Also this showed | could this my first year ever playing football ~ do anything if | stick to it. This event changed my life because it made me tougher as a kid and taught me to always try new things because you never know how it’s going to turn out. I learned a lotSebastien Vainqueur Leckie er: 6 throughout this experience but | mainly learned that you're not supposed to rough house with girls'dlso_, Hearned to be disciplined.