Honor the Game Conference

Elec Soto

Ms. Gomez

9/25/2014

Period 3

Honor the Game Conference

                In my first adventure, I was selected along with a few student athletes from our school to go to the “Honor the Game” Conference during school.  We were selected to represent our sports for our school along with other schools.  There were student athletes from Del Mar, Prospect, and Evergreen Valley just to name a few.  This conference was to bring to our attentions good sportsmanship and life after high school, whether it be playing a sport collegiately, at a professional stage or just going to college as a student.  There were many accomplished speakers that represented their sport, but the most influential speaker to me was ex-NFL superstar Johnnie Johnson.  He was the most impacted speaker because it seemed like everyone was paying attention to what he was saying and they understood with what he was saying.  There was a story he told us about that I will always remember because of its humor.  So he said that he was in 8^th grade playing on the varsity football team as their punt returner.  The very first varsity game he played in, he walked out to the field and told us that he was “praying to god so the punter wouldn’t punt the ball to him”. The punter did it anyways and Johnnie fumbled the ball.  Then he went on to say this same situation happened to him on his first game in college at the University of Texas and followed him to his first professional game with the St. Louis Rams.  The experience of meeting all of these accomplished athletes was so humbling and I will always remember this adventure.