{"id":697,"date":"2015-11-18T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acutabove.wpengine.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2015-12-04T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:03:13","slug":"persevere-personality-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"Persevere: Personality Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kayla Jackson<\/strong>
\nPines
\nTraverse City Central HS
\n1st Place
\nDivision 2, Yearbook
\nPersonality Profile<\/p>\n

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The quarterback throws the ball, Josiah Lopez-Wild ’14 goes in\u00a0for the tackle, fighting for the win. Instantly the play goes\u00a0wrong and leaves Lopez-Wild broken again.<\/p>\n

Lopez-Wild’s injuries started his freshman year and have\u00a0affected him all throughout his high school career. \u201cI had two\u00a0concussions, a broken right shoulder, and a torn ACL,\u201d Lopez-\u00a0Wild said. \u201cI got my first concussion in practice and I got hit\u00a0when I wasn’t looking. My shoulder broke in a game freshman\u00a0year and I got my second concussion junior year at the\u00a0Homecoming game. I tore my ACL in the Homecoming game\u00a0this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Playing for three years with a broken shoulder took its toll on\u00a0Lopez-Wild. \u201cFor concussions you have to wait about a week\u00a0before playing again because you don’t want to risk getting hit\u00a0in the head again,\u201d Lopez- Wild said. \u201cI played an entire season\u00a0with my shoulder broken. I wore a strap that held it down. It\u00a0was really difficult because I played defense and so when I\u00a0went to tackle I couldn’t get my arm out far enough. I tried not\u00a0to let it affect me that much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez- Wild’s most recent injury, a torn ACL, prevented him\u00a0from playing his final season of football. \u201cAt first I didn’t think\u00a0it was that big of a deal,\u201d Lopez-Wild said. \u201cI landed and I felt it\u00a0pop but finished the tackle. I started to walk back to the huddle\u00a0and felt my knee kind of give out and it felt week. They took\u00a0me back to the locker room and I had to get it checked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Due to Lopez-Wild’s setbacks he underwent multiple\u00a0surgeries. \u201cI didn’t actually get my shoulder checked out till my\u00a0junior year,\u201d Lopez- Wild said. \u201cI underwent a surgery for my\u00a0right shoulder, and they were working on my muscles because\u00a0I’d torn a few muscles in my back. Then I got a complete ACL \u00a0reconstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having continuous support from his teammates, Lopez- Wild\u00a0was on a fast track for recovery. \u201cI guess just being on the\u00a0team helped me to recover faster,\u201d Lopez- Wild said. \u201cWhen\u00a0you are on a team with a lot of the same guys for such a long\u00a0time, you form bonds with them. I want to help them and they\u00a0want to help me because we know we all play an important\u00a0role on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite not being able to play, Lopez-Wild returned the\u00a0support his team provided for him throughout the season. \u201cI\u00a0was team captain,\u201d Lopez-Wild said. \u201cIt was my job, I am\u00a0supposed to be there. It’s not so much that I have to be there,\u00a0but I want to be there. I think it helped the defense especially\u00a0and the younger guys a ton. They really worried when I wasn’t\u00a0there. It is always kind of hard to have one of your players go\u00a0down and so I tried to stick around and be as much of a leader\u00a0as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez-Wild felt that if he had the chance to relive his years\u00a0of football he wouldn’t change what happened to him. \u201cI\u00a0suppose if I had the chance to go back, I’d try to be more\u00a0conscious of how I landed on my knee during the game I tore\u00a0my ACL,\u201d Lopez-Wild said. \u201cFootball is a rough sport and I\u00a0appreciate what sports I have done throughout my high school\u00a0career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having endured these emotional events, Lopez-Wild has kept\u00a0positive and let his love of the game propel him forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball is by far my favorite sport. It was hard on me and my\u00a0team, but these experiences made me respect the game and\u00a0how short it is. I just wanted to do everything I could for my\u00a0team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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