Personal Narrative: How Hockey Has Changed My Life

On the edge of my seat I can feel my heart racing, just waiting for the clock to run down. We’re up by two and though I was watching the game at home, I could feel the energy of the crowd radiating through the television. Ten, nine, eight… the crowd begins to count down, my brother and I join in shouting, “FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE!” The buzzer sounds and the roar of the crowd comes rumbling through the speakers. The Chicago Blackhawks have just won, for the third time in six years, the 2015 Stanley Cup Championship, and

Jay was shooting lacrosse balls at a target, Lacrosse was his second favorite sport after hockey. Usually he would shoot to get better but this time he was shooting at his anger. What did he do to deserve this, school had just ended and spring lacrosse had just started. But this season jason couldn’t play because of his knee. He had been skiing at his family 's cabin in the cabin and torn his meniscus.

Hockey makes me forget about all the stress in my life. Once I step on the ice I forget about everything else and just focus on the game

The day was June 25th around 8 years ago it was my birth-day. On this day I had a hockey tournament in the middle of the summer. Where you may be thinking how is there a hockey tournament in the midst of summer, count myself included. My father practically had to drag me out of the house as if I was two years of age. When we got to the rink we played or game but nothing really happened.

Hockey Is easy ( once you learn) Introduction All I remember is... Buzz!!! there went the buzzer for our hockey game, us the stingers had lost against the blue jays and this is the 4th time we had lost and we got made fun of at school.

Dedication is the secret to success for many athletes. I started playing mini-mite travel hockey when I was five years old. At that level they focused on teaching us basics of skating and hockey skills. After playing travel hockey for a couple years, I quit hockey all together for coaching difficulties.

Personally, I am a soccer player and a runner, so when my soccer coaches announced that my school was starting a field hockey team and that they would also be coaching that, I was skeptical as to my abilities in this sport. Even though this was quite an odd sport and completely different from any that I have ever tried, I decided to give it a shot, and I turned out to love it! Even my coaches were thrilled with how well I picked up the new sport, and I never would have known about this ability if I had not gone out of the box and tried something new! Overall, I agree with Emerson's statement because you can discover new talents and abilities by going outside of your comfort zone.

There was a boy who went by the name jeffy he liked to play hockey and he was very good at it. He was about 5,10 had blonde hair with brown eyes, Jeffy was not the biggest kid he was pretty skinny. Everyday after school he would go to the Windom Arena and he would skate and practice playing hockey. One day after he was done skating he went upstairs to the dry land room and he was working on his clap bombs and and his top cheese snipes. When all of a sudden he heard a loud horn and a scream so he dropped his pucks and stick and quickly ran down stairs to see what was going on but when he arrived there was no one there.

Sports has definitely impacted my identity. It changes what I talk about and who my friends are . A Lot of my friends are from my sports teams. I also like to talk about the sports that I play. I watch sports on T.V. and talk about it with my dad.

I have been playing Ice Hockey for 12 years now, and I have loved every second of it. Well, almost every second, I’m kind of a sore loser. However, I still love the game. I love how in a game, one play can change the entire atmosphere of the game, whether its a goal that lights up the crowd, a hit that keeps the glass shaking, or a bad call by the ref that has the entire arena booing at the guy in stripes. But most of all, I love how the game has a way of comforting those who play it, like me.

When I was younger, my father gave me a lecture on having a desire. He told me that to be successful, you must have the desire to work for whatever you seek. Now that I am old enough and have been through some trials and tribulations to understand the concept of his philosophy, I believe in having a desire and having the will to work. When I was in the seventh grade, I felt as if I was a car with a dead engine on a highway during a winter storm. Even though I was a straight A student I had no desire to work, especially with the troubles I had at school and at home.

Growing up in Russia I started playing hockey and I fell in love with that game. After school I would always go out to the frozen pond and play with all my friends. I began to get pretty good at hockey from playing every day, that's when I started thinking I want to go pro in hockey. My uncle, who played professional hockey in Russia, and I would always talk late at night and fantasize about how great it would be if I could join the league when I grew up. I used him as my motivation to practice every day.

Someone very famous in history once said "Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. " Who would not agree with that? Being active gives you an opportunity to stop be bored with your life, you will accomplish more and you can try new things. One reason why being active is important is to stop being bored.

Everyone has that one thing that defines who they are and who they want to become. Whether they realize it or not, it could be grades, a personality trait, their appearance, or in my case, a sport. Field hockey has been a huge part of my life since I was eight. I am naturally athletic so sports usually came easy to me. Although field hockey was no exception to this, I did not realize until recently how great of an impact it had on me.

As the skates cut through the ice my first pass ever slides to my linemate he cradles the puck shoots and scores, at the age of seven I get my first point in my sports history. From literally that point on I fell in love with hockey ,Canada's pastime. Hockey introduced me to a lot of things including new friends. New friends may not be a big deal to some people but it is to me considering that I live in a neighborhood with little to none kids. Not just friends