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The sports girl
 

María Camila Sáenz 10B

 

“Never give up, do what you love and keep your chin up."

 Sports are very important for everyone´s life and they are also the base to a healthy mind and body. Every day, people exercise for reasons such as: being thin, having a great body, losing stress, being mentally and physically healthy, and so on. However, I know an incredible person, one of my favorite persons in the world (I must say), whose life has been founded on sports or, in other words, in physical activities. This girl is called Magdalena Saenz, a 20 year old student who has become an inspiration for many people in the past few years.

This sports life began when Magdalena was a kid at PACHAS. Her favorite class was Physical Education with Sonia, who made very fun interactive classes. As a result of this, she decided to enter an extracurricular activity, which took place at the end of the school day. There was football, volleyball, basketball, cheers and more, but she preferred…ballet. The first few moths It was okay, but then she got bored and left the classes. Few years later she started loving football as a result of her father, who started playing with her daily. She also found some guy friends that, as she, liked football and really admired her because of the perfect way she played. After this, her interest in football began to grow, therefore she asked her mother to sign her up in the football school team. However, because of the few people who inscribed and the indiscipline of the team, it was impossible. In fourth grade her father found a football club named Inter, where she trained during three years and was able to compete against other feminine football clubs. Suddenly the club was closed, and thus she needed to find somewhere else to train; she could not stop playing football. They found a new club called Besser, in which, after other three more years of training, the “Seleccion Colombia Femenina Sub 17” convened her, at the young age of 15 years old. After having a serious talk and discussing critically, her parents told her that there were other priorities at the moment, such as studying.

After all she began searching for universities that had the sport's science carrier, and finally she got to know Loras, where she is nowadays still studying. Besides her career, she was very interested in the college's football team; hence she got in touch with the trainer and got accepted on the team. At first it was what she expected it to be, but as time passed the members of the team began to bully Magdalena, making her feel useless and excluded. Because of this terrible event, she took the athletics path, talked with the trainer and entered as a novice runner; however, a year later the trainer noticed that Magdalena had a real talent in running, so she began competing. in the second year of competition, she entered to the Cross Country team, then went to the nationals and won the 120th place, at regionals she won the 17th place, and finally at the Conference competition she got the 4th place. After this she improved her timing and went to the “IN DOORS” competition where she won the 5000meters, and the “OUTDOORS” Drake relays competition, where she had a record of the 10,000meters. After all of this she got through nationals and went on to win the 12th place, which is extremely good. She also received other recognitions like: “Underclassman Athlete of the Year”, “Most Valuable Track and Field Athlete”, and moreover “Sport Academic Honors”.

In the last year, she won the first place in Cross Country and got “The athlete of the week” three consecutive weeks. She entered to the Top 5 academic excellence, commitment to excellence and the most valuable runner. All of this was perfect, but nothing lasts forever. Considering that her training was very tough and one of her main goals was to win everything, she got a lesion on her hip that made her stop running for about 2 months. It was very frustrating not being able to run and not doing what her passion was, however, she is now getting better and starting to run again.

 

 

 

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