Personal Narrative: My Sophomore Year Of High School

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During my sophomore year of high school, a miracle happened. Unexpected and surprisingly, I was qualified for a University Interscholastic League state tournament for an event called Congress. Success wasn’t the first word that came into anyone’s mind when they knew the name of the high school that I attended but now it was. It was a surprise to me and my coach because no one has gone to state for an individual event in over seven years. I prepared myself for a challenge due to the fact that I was competing against schools all over the state. Other schools had access to private and paid for databases when I had to result myself to google to help me find any evidence for my event. Also, I had no mentor to help me. My coach was in charge of other …show more content…
The school is also low funded and the rate of kids graduating from the school and dropping out is increasing every year. I was one of the few kids that didn’t allow this stigma to control my high school life. I vigorously worked at trying to find articles and essays from creditable resources to help support or negate a topic. This resulted in my debate coach and other UIL academic coaches to view me as a hardworking student and wanted to set me as an example to other members of the UIL club. Nevertheless, the time of the state tournament came and I didn’t make it the finals but I gained something bigger than that. I was a student that made my high school noticed and was praised for being a positive result of a corrupting school. In that same year, I was able to help other students out with an event called Cross Examination by teaching them the skills and resources I learned by myself. As a result, one team qualified for the state tournament hosted by University Interscholastic League. The team didn’t make it to finals but this raised the expectation high for the next season of