important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?
The summer of 2011 simply sports, a local not for profit sports organization asked if I would help them with their JUNE sports program for kindergarten age children who finish their NYC k programs memorial day.
Jeff bernstein, a father in the community, who has two sons attending the Dalton School left the business world and started simply sports
Simply Sports is a non-profit organization wholly dedicated to providing Manhattan youth with supervised, fundamental learning experiences in an athletic setting at a reasonable cost.
When simply sports started up, my mother signed up anyone who could walk and throw a ball into all his programs, of course, me included. I was just a kindergarten myself....and what a revelation to be 16 years old, watching an organization in nyc start up and be asked to return to support what was almost 50 seven and eight year Olds, coaches and captains, at Carl shultz cark, with the mayors house, just down the road.
So here I was, just out of freshman year, my first year at lawrenceville and I was coming back to new York city, for my summer, and I agreed to be a coach to these kindergarten kids just finishing their first year
In their new schools.
Wearing the whistle I had time, just a moment, to reflect, on giving back. What a unique opportunity I had, on this playing field, to give back to my community, to give back to just one K, who was just like me. Signed up and dragged cause their mother thought that would have fun, with no clue.....
I knew I could make a difference! And I realized I did, when the program ended and I had to learn another lesson. How to accept compliments, tips in my hand and stories of how I touched their child!
I hope my life at cal berkeley can be a receiving and giving experience
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