What I have accomplished my freshman year is making the starting lineup. I have struggled with this all 3 years of middle school, since 6th grade was my first year of playing football. I was very un-athletic, and was on the verge of being cut. I had to build A LOT of speed just to get a skilled position so I wasnt the smallest, weakest lineman on the team. So thats what I did, I got faster, a lot faster. halfway through my 7th grade year I moved to WR and DE, but had no experience and was still playing JV while all but me and 2 other 7th graders were eligible for Varsity. I was tall and skinny, and wasn't comparable to most of the people I was up against and I still had a lot to work on. By 8th grade year, our starting TE injured himself during baseball season, so the coaches moved me to TE and I was moved to the starting lineup. It was new to me, but at the time I had experience as an OL and WR, so I didn't think it would be that hard, I just needed more strength, and surely enough I accomplished my desired strength to be able to compete at the Varsity level in middle school, I was 6'0, 150 lbs and the strongest skilled player on the team, but I had to face adversity with the offensive coordinator who underestimated my skill, but I didn't let that define my potential. Although when he took over and debunked me from the starting lineup, I didn't let that change my mentality, I only grew from it. I got training, got faster and stronger, I was determined to make the starting lineup as a Freshman, and that's what I did. I started as WR and FS, despite having no offensive stats throughout the season and changing to OLB after week 3 with no experience, I did what I could, to the best of my ability. I made 95% of my blocks on offense and finished my season with only 10 TOT and 3 forced fumbles (1 INT counting preseason scrimmages). Although I still need more development I accomplished being top 5 strongest freshman football player on top of that. I've managed to push through a huge amount of knee pain throughout the season, coaching adversity in middle school, but let none of it stop me, and I only got better, and I plan to continue this sort of growth all the college and hopefully the NFL (my goal)