Ubc Informative Speech
To you I am just a one in the hundreds of applicants, I am just a grade on a paper – you don’t know me, you don’t know what I look like, you don’t know my story. There is more to me then that number on a page, and more that I would like you to get to know. I’m sure the admissions offices are flooded with the discontent of applicants who feel they deserve to have this opportunity. I can only imagine the difficulties that come along with sifting through piles of students ranging from across the country and even abroad, narrowing it down to the top contenders who are believed to maintain the reputation of UBC. UBC is one of Canada’s leading Universities, with an outstanding Kinesiology program that people such as myself dream of one day being
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During my years of sport I have been exposed to some of the top athletic doctors in Canada, this is what has created the desire to be part of this field. At a young age I started experiencing issues with my back, this is when I was first immersed into the physical therapy field. I had begun to see a chiropractor Dr. Larry Bell, a quick background on him is he has been involved in six Olympic games, 18 world and commonwealth championship games. My back had always been an issue, as my first year of university was approaching the issue got worse and I had injured it to the point I had a herniated disc at the age of 18. This was my first semester of university, it was something so hard to deal with at the time – it was difficult to manage my 5 courses all in the Science field and try to maintain my academics. Everyday I had constant pain and no one could fix it. This had caused me to become depressed; I wasn’t able to always attend classes because I was just in so much pain. I began to start to see physiotherapists to help try and treat this. As the year went on I started being immersed in the world of the …show more content…
I rehabbed all year, working with a AT in Vancouver by the name of Clayton Cross, working with him even then furthered my desire to become an athletic therapist. I saw him working with top class athletes from football to NHL players, this ignited the fire inside of me feeling as though I had finally found my passion, something that I knew I would be as dedicated and committed to as I was to my sports. I had just started coming into my finals week of the spring semester when I had received a call about my father, he had gone into kidney failure and we didn’t know if he was going to make it. I was rushed home with an exam in little under a week. Not only adding stress to my injury that was yet to be healed, my own father was maybe not going to make it. This all took a major toll on finals and my overall mental state. I tried to switch up exam dates but I would’ve end up doing them two months later, so I decided to just try and get them done. By the end of the year I had planned that starting September 2015 I would be a part of the rowing team full-time, and finally start my beginning. If I had not gone through
During my years of sport I have been exposed to some of the top athletic doctors in Canada, this is what has created the desire to be part of this field. At a young age I started experiencing issues with my back, this is when I was first immersed into the physical therapy field. I had begun to see a chiropractor Dr. Larry Bell, a quick background on him is he has been involved in six Olympic games, 18 world and commonwealth championship games. My back had always been an issue, as my first year of university was approaching the issue got worse and I had injured it to the point I had a herniated disc at the age of 18. This was my first semester of university, it was something so hard to deal with at the time – it was difficult to manage my 5 courses all in the Science field and try to maintain my academics. Everyday I had constant pain and no one could fix it. This had caused me to become depressed; I wasn’t able to always attend classes because I was just in so much pain. I began to start to see physiotherapists to help try and treat this. As the year went on I started being immersed in the world of the …show more content…
I rehabbed all year, working with a AT in Vancouver by the name of Clayton Cross, working with him even then furthered my desire to become an athletic therapist. I saw him working with top class athletes from football to NHL players, this ignited the fire inside of me feeling as though I had finally found my passion, something that I knew I would be as dedicated and committed to as I was to my sports. I had just started coming into my finals week of the spring semester when I had received a call about my father, he had gone into kidney failure and we didn’t know if he was going to make it. I was rushed home with an exam in little under a week. Not only adding stress to my injury that was yet to be healed, my own father was maybe not going to make it. This all took a major toll on finals and my overall mental state. I tried to switch up exam dates but I would’ve end up doing them two months later, so I decided to just try and get them done. By the end of the year I had planned that starting September 2015 I would be a part of the rowing team full-time, and finally start my beginning. If I had not gone through