Who I am.

To many different people, I am viewed in many different ways. I have been influenced by many experiences and people as I have grown up and that has definitely impacted who I am today. I am a competitor and I love it. I have grown up with two older siblings and therefore have been around sports my entire life. Sports are my passion and that has created that competitive nature that I possess. I am also very opinionated yet open minded at the same time. My dad is a very stubborn and opinionated person and I have always taken after him in terms of standing behind my beliefs and ideas regardless of whether others agree or disagree. I have grown out of my stubborn ways quite a bit and have been much more open minded to ideas of others. I love to talk to people and hear what they have to say and allow their ideas to possibly work with my own and make something better because of it. I also love helping others. I hate to see other people fall behind and because of this I do what I can to help them. Finally, I'm probably one of the hardest working people you will ever meet. Occasionally I allow myself to be lazy, but knowing that I have wasted time doing nothing when I could be doing something to make myself better at something or being productive, bothers me and that's why I don't do it a lot.
I have a ton of goals set for myself. Probably too many. I really know what I want out of life and I want to be successful and because of this desire, I have quite a few goals. I have different goals for each aspect of my life between sports, school, family, etc. If I'm not setting a goal that doesn't push me to do better and be better, then that goal is not good enough. I have accomplished many goals throughout high school so far and I don't like to think about the future too much, but that is ultimately what my goals are set up for. Each one is set to make me better and more prepared for my future. Some goals I have for the rest of this year is to finish out this year strong academically and get A's in all of my classes. For sports, I want to get all conference and win conference for basketball. As well as go for a regional title. In softball I want to win conference for my senior year and finally win a sectional championship. I also want to make the first team all state.  For summer softball, my plans are to use that time to gets as prepared as I can for DePaul and go try and defend our national title. As I go on to college my goal is to succeed and do the best that I possibly can. I think that the way I am, allows me to set such high goals and have such a need to get the most out of everything I do. I love to do well and see others do well too :)