An Onerous Task.
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I am an Asian American
Ever since I was 13 years old, it has been my dream to play football. Now I am a 17 year old high school senior with a good GPA and a great SAT score. My high school does not have a football program and all of the local high schools that do, my parents would not let me attend since all of them have fights, shootings (once a year), drug dealings and most of them do not even send their kids to college. My high school is a magnet school and we do not have a football program.
I will be attending college and I want to play college football but I keep hearing mixed reactions. Some people have told me that it is not going to happen and some have told me that if I try hard enough I can "walk on" to a d2 or d3 college.
BUT my dream is to for once in my life, play in a D-1A college football game and I keep hearing that I will NEVER get to play D-1A football if I did not play in high school. I really want to play and sometimes I think about just forgetting about it because I never got the opportunity and it effected a lot of people around me and at times it has even effected me. I looked and looked but nothing there, and since I live in the deep south I have received a lot of flak for being Asian and wanting to play football. I really want to play D-1A football and I am really frustrated that I never got the chance in high school due to my location and the type of school I went to. I always have dreams of me dropping back and completing a pass, I went to a football camp and a lot of the people told me that they were impressed with my skills. But like in my pursuit of education where I expect nothing less than an A, in my pursuit of football I believe that I deserve a D-1A opportunity but I am afraid that the college will not even let me try out.
I think I may want to give up liking football, maybe it is time. So here is my question,
what approach can I take in getting rid of my affinity towards the sport of American football?
(I did not ask this on the american football section since that section is full of idiots who love to bash people's dream when in reality they are probably unemployed and obese sitting on the computer all day long)
Ever since I was 13 years old, it has been my dream to play football. Now I am a 17 year old high school senior with a good GPA and a great SAT score. My high school does not have a football program and all of the local high schools that do, my parents would not let me attend since all of them have fights, shootings (once a year), drug dealings and most of them do not even send their kids to college. My high school is a magnet school and we do not have a football program.
I will be attending college and I want to play college football but I keep hearing mixed reactions. Some people have told me that it is not going to happen and some have told me that if I try hard enough I can "walk on" to a d2 or d3 college.
BUT my dream is to for once in my life, play in a D-1A college football game and I keep hearing that I will NEVER get to play D-1A football if I did not play in high school. I really want to play and sometimes I think about just forgetting about it because I never got the opportunity and it effected a lot of people around me and at times it has even effected me. I looked and looked but nothing there, and since I live in the deep south I have received a lot of flak for being Asian and wanting to play football. I really want to play D-1A football and I am really frustrated that I never got the chance in high school due to my location and the type of school I went to. I always have dreams of me dropping back and completing a pass, I went to a football camp and a lot of the people told me that they were impressed with my skills. But like in my pursuit of education where I expect nothing less than an A, in my pursuit of football I believe that I deserve a D-1A opportunity but I am afraid that the college will not even let me try out.
I think I may want to give up liking football, maybe it is time. So here is my question,
what approach can I take in getting rid of my affinity towards the sport of American football?
(I did not ask this on the american football section since that section is full of idiots who love to bash people's dream when in reality they are probably unemployed and obese sitting on the computer all day long)