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I enjoy several extracurricular activities including basketball, golf, baseball, badminton, street hockey but I am going to discuss my love for soccer.  I have been playing soccer since I was five.  I currently am on the PMSC 2005 AC selects, which play at the metro level for our age group, which is U15.  This past season, my soccer team made the provincial A cup.  After a year of preparation and an undefeated season, we played in provincials in July 2019. We played very hard through the season and the provincials and our team really came together through various challenges.  Our team ended up making the final game where we played a very strong Vancouver Island soccer team.  

Due to a very strong season, our team was confident going in the provincial games.   Although we were missing two of our good players due to summer vacations, two of our very strong players moved back to Korea and a number were injured, we still felt that it was a challenge we were up for. Our first game we played, our rivals, Surrey Guilford.   Up until this season, we had never beat Surrey Guildford since we went full field at the U13 age group.  With a strong game from all our players we came out on top by the score of 3-1. After this game we played Kelowna. This team was not as good as Surrey but were still fairly strong as they were the top team from the Okanagan. We won 1-0, without one of our better players with an injury. After this game we played an Island team, which is the team we would end up playing in the finals.   We tied this seeding game 3-3.  Then the entire season and the Provincial cup came down to one last game.  I know all the nerves for my teammates prior to the game were rising.  During the game against the Island, another one of our stronger players, was given two yellow cards and he would not be allowed to play in the finals.  The pressure was on.   The remaining players had to come together and play as a team without certain players due to the various injuries, vacations and a red card.   With the final whistle blown, the Port Moody AC Selects won the 2019 provincials and we got to raise the trophy.   A memory that will always stay with me.    

Something that you probably didn’t know is that even though I helped my team have the undefeated season, I didn’t get to play in the provincials.   We had won every league game, which was 17 games and our team had been on fire.  I unfortunately got injured on March 4, 2019, just as the regular season ended, which made me unable to play in the provincials. I ended up tearing my meniscus, damaging my ACL and breaking a bone in my knee. I have been through a lot and had to have surgery on April 26, 2019 at Children’s hospital and have since worn a brace that locked my leg in place for seven weeks, weekly physio, hydrotherapy and it continues to this day.   This injury has led me to not enjoy my extracurricular activity as much as before because I am only watching.  I am just starting to now be able to warm up with my team.   I hope to be able to play in the spring season of 2020 again for the team and hope one day that we might be able to raise the trophy again when I am on the field playing.