Pretty much my entire life has revolved around playing a sport or doing something of competitive nature. I am a super competitive person and I am always striving to be better or the best. Volleyball is a huge part of my life and will continue to be (I will be playing in college), but it has also taught me a lot about myself and everything around me. A lot of people say that I am following in my dad’s footsteps (he played basketball at Penn State), but I really would like to be my own person and do what I want. Having a volleyball scholarship is hard and comes with a lot of pressure from everyone around you. I have always felt pressure from all around me to be very good and to not make mistakes. I have really learned to become my own person through these pressures and the stress of recruiting and playing. I have had to face many hard decisions and societal pressures to do things that could put my scholarship in great danger. From all of this I have been able to grow as a person and learn that all that really matters is doing what you want and what benefits you, not what others want and what could benefit them. The outside influences/pressures of what people think and want you to do have actually shown me what I really want and to keep my eyes on my goals. One goal that I had always had was to get a volleyball scholarship to college. Now that that is complete, I am focusing on other things like college that is looming ahead and doing well there and hopefully continuing onto law school. Besides volleyball I love music and I play the piano in my free time. My friends are big influences in my life and they share a lot of the same views as I do so we all get along great.
