www.athleteswanted.org » Influence of Athletics http://www.athleteswanted.org The Complete Guidebook to Maximizing Your Athletic Scholarship and Life Potential. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:43:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 My Athletes Wanted Story http://www.athleteswanted.org/2009/06/my-athletes-wanted-story/ http://www.athleteswanted.org/2009/06/my-athletes-wanted-story/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:48:17 +0000 Brian Davidson http://www.athleteswanted.org/?p=343 Unlike most employees at NCSA, I never played a sport in college. Despite not playing collegiately, athletics have played an enormous role in my life and helped me play a role in many other lives. Athletics helped me forge many dear friendships, learn how to interact with others and continues to shape my life on a daily basis. However, the single greatest gift athletics gave me was the will power and determination to participate in a charity bicycle event traveling across the United States to benefit people with disabilities.

Biking over 3,900 miles from San Francisco to the Capital steps in Washington D.C. would not have been possible without the lessons I learned earlier in life through sport. The willpower to climb mountains and endure hours on the bike were actually developed playing sports years earlier.

Most importantly the trip allowed me to help hundreds of people with disabilities all summer long. Working daily to help others allowed me the chance to really understand who I was as a person. I will be eternally grateful for the lessons I learned that summer and none of them would have been possible without sport.

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