focus, college essay

There is nothing like being on the water. Feeling your oar pass through the water. Nothing like rolling up to the catch. That feeling of pure awe, pure determination and raw power. The feeling of complete confidence and strength. The perfection of your boat clicking together, catching together, swinging together and finally finishing together. Having four others on the boat, you would think you would not be alone, but you are. The focus is you and only you. When your rowing, yes you watching the person ahead of you and your boat moves as one, but its really only you out there on that river. When you are pulling that oar through the water, your pulling for you. You have self determination and strength. As a rower you push your limits every day. You become stronger not only physical but mentally. You have confidence; you know what you need to do every single time you pull on that oar. You have complete commitment and endurance. Not only do you prove to yourself but the world that you can go above and beyond. You put yourself in perspective, and you pull harder and harder for you and your team.

I am a senior in high school who has a world of opportunity at her door, but has only dreamed of what she is about to enter. Her focus right now is what is she going make of herself? Where is she going? Is she ready to enter this unknown world? These questions are always pondering in my head. But a certain thing is that I will be persistent in this journey of self fulfillment. What rowing has taught me is commitment, endurance, self-determination, self-motivation and that you must love what you do. These are the most important things that rowing has brought into my life and that, is what I will bring with me into this world.

Not only as a rower but a coxswain, you have that sense of what needs to be done and a sense of motivation. Your purpose as a coxswain is you motivate the rower, you remind them of why they row and you give them that confidence in rowing. When you are acting as a coxswain, instead of letting your weaknesses and setbacks affect you and your rowers negatively, you use them as strengths, you use them as a build.