Dakota's Comp Blog

     My biggest regret is rushing back into sports after my ACL reconstruction my Junior year in High School. I tore my ACL junior year in the third football game of the season. I had to have ACL reconstruction and was told the recovery could be 9-12 months. This did not stop me from pushing myself and I was able to finish physical therapy earlier than most and was in a hurry to get back to sports. So later in my junior year I got back into track and was sure to secure my spots. Then running in a 100m dash the regret set in when I felt a shift in my knee and I nearly dropped. I did not want to go to the doctors as summer football workouts were ahead. Then those started and I was unable to compete in some of the events due to the pain my knee was causing. So eventually I had to go to the doctors and this is when I found out my ACL was torn again. I continued to play my senior year of football with a torn ACL and even wrestled for a month or so before I could no longer take...

When I was a child, like every other person I was told that Santa Claus was real. Every Christmas my parents would take me to see Santa, and listen in to what I told him I wanted. Then come Christmas Eve night they would have me set out cookies and milk. On the morning of Christmas we would wake up early and open our presents, but every Christmas morning the cookies and milk were gone. There would also be presents under the tree labeled "from Santa," but all that was a childhood lie that parents tell their children. That has not affected my relationship with my parents as every parent does this. I can also say that they are not the only ones guilty of this as I now tell my little cousins and nephew the same thing.