True Sportsmanship

It is been a while since I've posted a blog here so I hope everyone at Get Ur Good On is having an awesome year! Mine started out with me getting sick at the beginning of the year with some strange illness that stumped all my doctors and just started feeling better a few months ago.  I missed a lot of school which was very hard because I love school and missed all my friends!  I never really had a diagnosis and the doctors concluded that it was a bizarre viral infection because they only know about 20% of all viruses that attack the human body.  I am a freshman now in high school and LOVE IT! 

So, back in July, I broke my arm in a soccer tournament.  The injury happened right in front of the coach/parents of the other team who heard the break.  One of the moms was a nurse and immediately took action by getting ice and trying to calm me down.  It looked really bad, deformed and was so painful.  The ref called my coach over who then in turn got my mom and since I was going into shock, she decided to call an ambulance.  I made it to the ER so the care of the EMT's, doctors and nurses was great, no surgery and I got my purple cast.  My team played in the semi finals the following morning so I had to watch my team play so they were very happy to see me and I to see them!!!

Well, a few days after the tournament, the coach of the team we were playing when I broke my arm called my coach to get our address and they sent me a card signed by all their players, coach and parents!  I was so touched by this gesture because you just don't hear of that very often in sports as players get hurt all the time.  So, the story doesn't end there.  We played this team last weekend for our league play and their coach came over before the game to see how I was doing and dropped off some brownies from their team to ours!!!

A BIG THANKS to the EL CAJON MATRIX GIRLS U16AA-A TEAM for showing the 'true' meaning of sportsmanship!!!  I don't think I even realized just how important sportsmanship is in sports until this experience!  Portraying good sportsmanship is showing respect for yourself, your teammates, your opponents, the coaches and referees and will provide a positive experience for the spectators as well. 

My mom and I actually witnessed a fight at one of our soccer tournaments between adults and couldn't help but worry about the example they were setting for all the kids who were watching the violence unfold before their eyes! 

Sportsmanship is an attitude that will have a positive impact on everyone around you!  I do remember the excruciating pain when I broke my arm, yet, I am thankful to have personally experienced the caring hearts from an opposing team and their actions towards me, when they could've just walked off the field that day, yet, they set an example by doing something very special and uplifting.  I think the most incredible part of this story is that they also lost that game and still found it within themselves to show the grace of what sportsmanship is really all about! 

Have a great rest of the year!!! 

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