sports law personal statement
Paige Berman
English III Honors
1 December 2014
Ms. Yates
Personal Statement When I was in the second grade I came up with the plan that I was going to study law. As I grew older, I always believed that it was just an idea I had and it would blow over. One time when I was in middle school, I thought maybe I would go into fashion. I dropped that quick and went back to the idea of law. Realizing that I took so much interest in it, I decided to spend a summer studying about it just to make sure it was what I wanted to do. I ended up going for summer of 2014 to Georgetown University where I took a 3 week law course where I went over several cases and had to present my self. I learned about the many types of law and suddenly realized that because of how much I love sports, that sports law would be perfect for me. One thing that pushed me into looking into sports law was the NHL lockout in 2012. After 1991, there had been four lockouts. Another thing was the issue of concussions in the NFL. This made me interested in it because the NFL believed that they were doing their best to cover expenses and not need to go to court while formers players thought it wasn't enough. Not only that, but soon there suddenly started to be more cases within sports teams there was death, abuse, injuries and crimes. Through out my life I have lived centering my life around sports. This is why I believe this would be the perfect fit for me. To further enhance my knowledge on this, I will be traveling this upcoming summer to UCLA, to do another 3 week program solely based off sports law. I hope that at the end of this project that I will understand more of the major topics in sports law on and prepare myself for my program in the summer.
English III Honors
1 December 2014
Ms. Yates
Personal Statement When I was in the second grade I came up with the plan that I was going to study law. As I grew older, I always believed that it was just an idea I had and it would blow over. One time when I was in middle school, I thought maybe I would go into fashion. I dropped that quick and went back to the idea of law. Realizing that I took so much interest in it, I decided to spend a summer studying about it just to make sure it was what I wanted to do. I ended up going for summer of 2014 to Georgetown University where I took a 3 week law course where I went over several cases and had to present my self. I learned about the many types of law and suddenly realized that because of how much I love sports, that sports law would be perfect for me. One thing that pushed me into looking into sports law was the NHL lockout in 2012. After 1991, there had been four lockouts. Another thing was the issue of concussions in the NFL. This made me interested in it because the NFL believed that they were doing their best to cover expenses and not need to go to court while formers players thought it wasn't enough. Not only that, but soon there suddenly started to be more cases within sports teams there was death, abuse, injuries and crimes. Through out my life I have lived centering my life around sports. This is why I believe this would be the perfect fit for me. To further enhance my knowledge on this, I will be traveling this upcoming summer to UCLA, to do another 3 week program solely based off sports law. I hope that at the end of this project that I will understand more of the major topics in sports law on and prepare myself for my program in the summer.