One Week Down

I finished my first week of practice and I thought that it went awesome! It really wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. If we work hard as a team and encourage each other it ends up being easy. Coach Newsome always say "Do it right, do it light". That is definatly his philosophy. By doing it right, he means that we need to pick each other up and being postive. It also means doing the little things right. Like starting behind the line and finishing through the line. I thought that our team did a great job of working hard everyday. During the week there are always going to be days where you are not ready to go or you don't have very much energy. We really didn't have that this week. Even when we were not feeling the best, we pushed through it and encouraged each other to continue to work. I am having so much fun. It is much more enjoyable than I ever thought that it would be. I am loving it.

Track Practice

I had me first track practice on Monday. I thought that I would be really nervous about it but I was actually kind of excited. Practice is usually 4-6 in the W and the weight room. We started off with our warm up, which takes about 30 minutes. After that we did a ten minute run. It was fairly easy. Next, we finished with 12 sprints of about 150 meters. We had almost no rest in between and we tired out pretty quick. Coach wasn't very happy with us because we more worried about ourselves then the teammates around us. We thought that we were done at 12 but he extended it 15. He was again not happy after the extra three sprints so he moved it to 18. The final three sprints got a lot better. He wasn't disappointed that we weren't working hard enough but that we were not helping ourselves out by encouraging each other. We finished up with our practice in the weight room for about 45 minutes. Once, we started encouraging each other practice got a lot more fun. If it continues like that track is going to be a lot of fun.

This Week

It has been a really long week and I am very excited that it it the weekend. I found out that I did very good on both the tests that I completed before fall break. That should give me a great chance at getting the grade that I want in both of those classes. I have continued reading "State of Fear". My other concern is my room situation for next your. I have a really close friend that I want to room with next year but he is going to room with soccer players. I might room with him and some soccer players anyways. I can get along with pretty much anyone as long as they are not mean. He is looking at an 8 person room so that might be an interesting expirence for me. I am an only child so I am not used to being around a lot of people most of the time. It should be really fun though. I have a large group project that we are working on every Wednesday and with track practice starting next week, I am going to be very busy. It makes me very nervous but also really excited!

Friends

Me and my roomate have a lot in common. We both love basketball and football. We both are in sports here at wartburg. We both have girlfriends in high school. We have a lot to talk about and get along great. But there is one thing that makes our bond so great. One great thing. The T.V. show "Friends". I dont care what people think, I love that show. The awesome thing is my roomate does also. We watch it everyday from 3-4 p.m. and 10-12 at night. Everyone on our floor knows it too. People just dont come to our room during these hour. They know that it's "Friends" time. Anyways, I really like the show because I used to watch it with my parents and it brings back some good memories. I swear I have seen like every episode. At least I don't watch "Jersey Shore".

Intramurals

I had my first game of intramural basketball tonight. We played team starstruck, which consisted of guys that I swear have been in college for like 6 years. We lost lost by about 15 but we did pretty good considering we were all freshman. I bet we get about second overall in the league.I did pretty good and I scored quite a few points. Our team is actually pretty talented and worked fairly well together. We had never even really played together before so that was a good sign. I am really excited to play again because I think that I can make some pretty good friends on this team also. Team Geeks n' sneaks is gonna dominate this season, despite the early season loss.

Sports Management

I am taking the introduction to sports management class. The weird thing about it is that my mom is teaching it. I had my dad as a teacher in junior high so it won't be completely strange. I have a very good relationship with both of my parents. The class is very important to me because my major is sports management. It has a lot of interesting things about setting yourself up for the future and finding a job in the sports field. My mom hasn't called on me in class yet so that is a good thing. I sit in the back of the classroom because I don't want to draw any attention to myself or anything like that. My mom is a pretty good teacher because she is very outgoing and she likes to talk. I swear that she doesn't stop talking the entire class period.

Internships

I am very interested by the opportunity of doing interenships while I am at Wartburg. I plan on doing an internship in the athletic office next year during the fall because this year I am a second year and next year I will be a third year. Then after that I am looking at an internship at the Waterloo Blackhawks for the summer or possibly fall the next year. Finally my goal is to get an internship in Des Moines with the Iowa Energy, an NBA D-League team. My dream job is working within an NBA team. I research the Iowa Energy and discovered that the have an internship program. With track I will not be able to working during the basketball season but they have a summer program as well. I am very excited about this. I feel like my job would be so much fun if I worked for a professional sports team, mainly an NBA team. I know it will take a lot of work but it is what I really want to do.