Even though I never played sponsored collegiate athletics or went through the recruiting process, my mind was constantly reaching back to my high school volleyball days remembering what it was like to be a full time student-athlete. Remembering the drills that seemed to last forever, the coarse calluses on my hand, and the sweat that never seemed to escape my face. I have so many memories of that gym, that ball, and that game that gave me so much.

I was hoping to write some all encompassing, inspiring snippet about all that sports has given me and taught me, but now I don’t think I can do that. Every story is so vastly unique but also so insanely similar that it is hard to describe unless you’ve been there. That is what Athletes Wanted was for me, a chance to relive my individual experience yet share that experience with all those other athletes before and after me. I can think of no other way to summarize my Athletes Wanted story than with this. “You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a ball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” –Former Big Leaguer, Jim Bouton.

Sport has given me so much and I hope that one day I can give as much back.

-Jim Broe

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