So I grew up playing a bunch of sports. Yes, I was one of those kids who could not pick a sport to play. Although I had to drop all my sports by the time I got to 11th grade. I did soccer, I did fastpitch or fastpitch softball, I figure skated, I did taekwondo, I did basketball while I was in elementary school, track, and I did floor hockey.

I did track throughout elementary school mostly. I started doing track when I was 6. I was a fast little thing of what people told me. By the time I was in grade, I think 2, my mom had to pull me and my sister out because of my principal complaining that I wasn’t sitting still after the competition. But I started it back up when we changed schools in grade 4. And I did that till I was in grade 6, I believe.

I only did soccer for a couple of years starting when I was 7. It was definitely an experience in itself. One of the days that we had practiced, because we had to practice rain or shine, it ended up raining, windy, sunny, and it ended up hailing, all within the span of an hour. The only reason why our coach let us go home early was because it started hailing. Most of the time when you participate in soccer practice, it is going to be literally rain or shine. They don’t care that it’s going to be raining when you’re practicing. Actually, that’s not entirely true. It depends on what type of surface you’re practicing on. For me, it was gravel, so it didn’t matter.

I did fastpitch when I was in grade 5, from what I can remember. And I ended up getting MVP for actually hitting my first ball with a bat during one of our tournaments.

I did basketball in grades six and seven. As well as floor hockey. Basketball practice was usually in the morning or sometimes it was after school instead. For floor hockey, we actually did it with the puck instead of a ball. And our games would be during lunch. I remember my teachers telling me that I was very good at defense. I loved doing floor hockey, but only when there’s a puck, don’t like playing when it’s with a ball.

I started with skating lessons. I don’t exactly remember what age I was. But then we started doing figure skating, me and my sister. I remember we had to stop figure skating in grade 6 because mom couldn’t functionally afford it anymore. She could only afford to put one of us through figure skating. So, we ended up dropping it. It was also getting harder for us to be able to get to figure skating since we had moved further away from the rink.

I did Taekwondo in grade 9 and I had to drop it just as I was starting grade 11. We already knew that I wasn’t going to have time for extracurriculars at the time because I ended up in a university program at school. I ended up with all my academic classes in my first term of grade 11 so we were more worried about me getting my homework done than being able to participate in sports.

Now, yes, I did a lot of sports as a kid. However, it did help me grow. I learned how to work with people. And I learned how to stand up and fight.