Sports Cuts Persuasive Essay

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“I can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan --- Sports cuts have been going on ever since I can remember. They are becoming a more and more frequently talked about subject as sports get more popular and more kids strive to be apart of a team. Some argue that no cuts should be made when athletes try out for their desired sports team. I argue that all high schools should have sports cuts, unless not enough athletes try out to begin with.

There’s not enough funding for every child to make every cut of the team they tried out for. “More than 100 soccer players gathered in the hot, stuffy gym… knowing that some may not earn spots on the team when tryouts end.” (Rhodes). In bigger schools …show more content…
After being cut from a team some athletes go in different directions and find a sport that they were destined to play. It’s almost as if everything up until that point was leading to that sport. For me this is true. I was cut from the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade year Volleyball team, and it hurt, it hurt a lot. I cried multiple times, especially my 8th grade year because I had practiced in my backyard just about everyday. But little did I know I was destined to be a long distance runner. I had been on the track team before, but I never really obsessed over it like I did Volleyball. My freshman year I made the team because everybody made the team, there wasn’t enough girls to tryout to be able to make cuts. I often found myself running to Volleyball practice, and running after practice. I would go for runs all the times on my own, and not until I was on a bus ride home one day, and i saw the Cross Country kids running, did i realize I chose the wrong team. I realized Volleyball was something I used to love, but that there was nothing there for me anymore. I then later joined the Cross Country team the following season to be the number one girl runner, and I carried that position all 3 years that I was on the team. I’m not the only one who had to fail to find success, Michael Jordan did as
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