"Final Line of Defense”
My University Life with Sports
I love sports very much.
When I was very young, I learn playing table tennis in a sports training
center for nearly a year. Although I didn’t want to grow up as a professional
table tennis player and gave up training after going to primary school,
experiences during that time strongly fostered my interest in sports.
I learn swimming and
playing soccer in my PE lessons in high school, and became a member of the
soccer team of our class after I entered university. Unlike UCONN, sports
programs in my home university are often held within and between different
schools. For example, I study in School of Pharmacy which locates in Zhangjiang
Campus of my university where there are also School of Computer Science and
other schools of engineering major. Each year we have Zhangjiang Cup soccer
games and basketball games between these schools. There are not so many sports
programs in university or interuniversity level other than the annually held
sports meeting in my university as that in UCONN. I still remember going to see
the soccer game between UCONN Husky and IONA with my friends during my first
week in UCONN. We shouted in the bleachers “UCONN! Husky! Woo~~~”, and when the
game came to an end with Husky’s winning, people all arose from their seats,
applauding and waving their hands to the players with great excitement.
That game recalled me the
days in my class soccer team. The first month after I entered there was the
Freshmen Cup soccer games among all schools of our university. I was the
fullback in our team which was often called by our captain “the final line of
our defense”. Though there were not so many students coming to see our game at
that time, I really enjoyed fighting with other members as a team. I fought
back each ball together with other fullbacks, and helped our strikers
accomplish their shooting. Although I was not the man who directly shoot, I
felt greatly proud and excited after my team got the goal. Although my team
didn’t win all the games in that year’s Freshmen Cup and later the Zhangjiang
Cup, we were very happy to fight together every time.
Even though I don’t participate
in UCONN Husky soccer team (there is only one semester for me to stay in
UCONN), I wish that UCONN Husky and all other UCONN sports teams could win more
games in the future!
P.S. Attached with this
blog there are three photos of our Freshmen Cup in 2014. Photo 1 is our class
soccer team and I was the “temporary captain” in that game because our real captain
got injured and could not play. In Photo 2 I am the man in red in the left
running towards the ball, and in Photo 3 I was the running red men in the
middle.
Written by: Xingyu
Zhou
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