Devoting Your Time

Along with being an athlete, whether professional, ameature, college, or high school, there is always a time to volunteer your time and give back to the community.  Even if it not required it is always nice to take a chance and thank one's community that supported the team through the season or even helped get the team funding to get the proper facilities for training.  Sometimes one might not want to and they feel as if practice is more important, but at the same time making sure people know how thankful you are for their help and encouragement is necessary as well.  Thorughout college there are numerous chances to give back to the community.  There are times when one can volunteer to work meets and games, and then there are others like Adopt-A-Highway and Special Olympics that might not be directly related, but still make one realize how lucky we are.  So, even though we might feel as if we are too busy and focused on our sports we still need to save the time and energy to make sure we thank and show respect to those that are helping us along our way in search of our dreams.