Adam's Personal Application
I can apply the model that we created to my experience on the cross country team and track and field team that I am currently on right now. The team I am on is the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s cross country and track team. Though people may consider cross country an individual sport, it is as much a team sport as any other sport. We run together and work hard every day for practice. When we compete you have your individual place and time but they also calculate a team place which is more important than the individual times.
This past fall season we worked out butts off by running long and hard. Our coach was excited because we were running faster times in practice than many years previous. Also, leading up to our conference meet we had the most people with top times than everyone else in our conference and were the favorites going into it. That had been our goal the whole season, to win conference. We all ended up running poorly on a course that was sub-par and got fifth. It was still very close with second and fifth place being separated by 18 points, which is extremely close for cross country. Needless to say we were very upset and our heads were down but we were able to shake it off and look to the future.
The next season for us was indoor track and field. We were determined and extremely goal orientated to redeem ourselves at the indoor conference meet. We all continued to work very hard during workouts. Throughout the season we had to support each other when one of us may have had a bad race and to respect how others dealt with situations like bad races. We listened to each other and our bodies consistently trying to help each other out with any soreness we may have from pushing our bodies so hard. The indoor conference meet came upon us and we were again ready with top times in many of the events. We all had our individual events that we were in so we knew what our roles were. Too score points and help our team to a conference championship. Everyone stepped up to the occasion and earned points. Many of us did better than we were expected to do. This helped propel our track and field team to another of our many conference championships.
All of the aspects that are outlined in our model are applicable to this personal experience. We needed to have good communication in order to know what each other were thinking about races, workouts and various other things. Communication was also important with our coach because we needed to know what to do for workouts and if anything needed to be modified depending on how we felt on that particular day. We all had to support each other because we all had poor races that we needed help to shake off. All of us had our specific and balanced roles we needed to do. Each one of us were put into the events we are best. Listening skills were necessary because our coach would critique us on various things so we needed to know how to implement it in order to become better runners. We had to respect each other and the levels that each one of us are at. Some of us are a little faster but we all respect each other because we push each other to our limits in order to run our best. Reliability was also crucial. We relied on each other for support, to push us in workouts, to motivate us and to give our best. When it came time for conference we relied on each other to be ready to handle whatever may have been thrown at us during the races. Most importantly we were goal orientated. We all had a bad end to our cross country season so we all had our sights on indoor conference. We all kept the pain of losing cross country in the back of our heads which kept us motivated to continue pushing to our new goal. Everyone also had smaller goals for themselves which mostly consisted trying to run faster and setting new personal records for ourselves.
This past fall season we worked out butts off by running long and hard. Our coach was excited because we were running faster times in practice than many years previous. Also, leading up to our conference meet we had the most people with top times than everyone else in our conference and were the favorites going into it. That had been our goal the whole season, to win conference. We all ended up running poorly on a course that was sub-par and got fifth. It was still very close with second and fifth place being separated by 18 points, which is extremely close for cross country. Needless to say we were very upset and our heads were down but we were able to shake it off and look to the future.
The next season for us was indoor track and field. We were determined and extremely goal orientated to redeem ourselves at the indoor conference meet. We all continued to work very hard during workouts. Throughout the season we had to support each other when one of us may have had a bad race and to respect how others dealt with situations like bad races. We listened to each other and our bodies consistently trying to help each other out with any soreness we may have from pushing our bodies so hard. The indoor conference meet came upon us and we were again ready with top times in many of the events. We all had our individual events that we were in so we knew what our roles were. Too score points and help our team to a conference championship. Everyone stepped up to the occasion and earned points. Many of us did better than we were expected to do. This helped propel our track and field team to another of our many conference championships.
All of the aspects that are outlined in our model are applicable to this personal experience. We needed to have good communication in order to know what each other were thinking about races, workouts and various other things. Communication was also important with our coach because we needed to know what to do for workouts and if anything needed to be modified depending on how we felt on that particular day. We all had to support each other because we all had poor races that we needed help to shake off. All of us had our specific and balanced roles we needed to do. Each one of us were put into the events we are best. Listening skills were necessary because our coach would critique us on various things so we needed to know how to implement it in order to become better runners. We had to respect each other and the levels that each one of us are at. Some of us are a little faster but we all respect each other because we push each other to our limits in order to run our best. Reliability was also crucial. We relied on each other for support, to push us in workouts, to motivate us and to give our best. When it came time for conference we relied on each other to be ready to handle whatever may have been thrown at us during the races. Most importantly we were goal orientated. We all had a bad end to our cross country season so we all had our sights on indoor conference. We all kept the pain of losing cross country in the back of our heads which kept us motivated to continue pushing to our new goal. Everyone also had smaller goals for themselves which mostly consisted trying to run faster and setting new personal records for ourselves.