<p>Hey i was wondering what people think about this college essay of mine, tell me if its along the right lines (Criticism welcome) :</p>
<p>For as long as I can remember I have wanted to be good at sports. As most kids do I played soccer and little league baseball for a few years and was never very good. If you ever played little league or had a kid in little league baseball you would know there’s the one kid who’s the star of the show. The kid was either just naturally good at sports, maybe their dad was the coach and gave him a lot of extra practice at home, or maybe he just happened to be the best player on the team it didn’t matter. Lets be clear I was not that kid on the team. I was more the one who struck out 75 percent of the time and had trouble throwing the ball farther than 10 feet. I tried many sports hoping that I would find one that I was good at and liked. I tried every thing, and I mean everything. Like every kid I played baseball and soccer when I was younger without much success, so I went on to try karate, rowing, and even fencing. All of which I still was never very good at and didn’t enjoy them all that much. Then finally I tried tennis. This was the first sport I tried that I really liked and thought I could get good at. I started taking lessons right after tryouts for the school team that year. I practiced for the whole year and got better, but as I look back I was not very good at all, but I had a lot of fun playing. I went into tryouts thinking I’d probably be playing on doubles, which is on the lower end of the starting line up. Then tryouts started and I realized my assumption was quite wrong. Every one was extremely good. After my years of playing tennis I’ve now learned that my school team was very above average compared to the other teams we played. But I didn’t know that then and I was beaten very badly by most people that I played during tryouts. I still thought that I would be able to hold a spot on exhibition, which is where your games don’t count towards whether or not our team beat the other team, and just played other teams exhibition players. Then on the last day of tryouts the coach told us whether or not we made it as we walked out of practice. As I walked out all I heard him say was sorry there isn’t as spot and then I stopped hearing what he said. I was devastated. I had worked all year for nothing. I was in 10th grade at the time and 8th graders had made the team over me. At first I wanted to quit. I was very close to being done with sports all together. After my parents had taken me out to a pity dinner and a couple days of moping I decided that I wasn’t going to give up on tennis. I practiced for another whole year and tryouts rolled around again. The thought of not making it two years in a row was nerve-racking. As tryouts went along I did pretty well, much better than the previous year. Right as tryouts were coming to a close coach pulled me aside and told me that he was going to announce that I would be co-captain of the team this year. Not only did he just eliminate my fear of not making it he told me I would be a captain, even with me never being on the team before. But I wasn’t made captain because of my skill at tennis. I was on the line up but 3rd doubles, which is more towards the bottom. But I finally realized that’s not what mattered. I found that I’m not the best player on the team, that’s not my strength. My strength is being a leader, a people person, and that skill is what I should be proud of and work towards. </p>