Artifact-Baseball Helmet

This helmet represents 4 of the most important years of my life leading up to college. This seemingly simple item was given to me as a gift from the Olentangy Liberty Baseball Program following my senior year. The helmet was signed by every one of my teammates from my senior year and my number was written on the bill. The gift was for the four years of service I dedicated to being a valuable teammate, player, and leader on the baseball team. As much as this honored the mark that I made on the team and all the work I put in, it also represented the mark the team made on me. For four years, the team was a part of my life. We were not the average high school baseball team. Our coaches stressed the fact that they were not just trying to make us better on the field, but they wanted most of our improvements to be made as men off the field. I learned numerous invaluable lessons from the coaches and the upperclassmen that came before me. The players before me made being a leader very easy, as I felt it was simply part of growing up in the program. The helmet represents four years of hard physical, mental, and emotional work I put in four or five days a week year-round. It represents an accomplishment of the four years of successful baseball, but also the four years of people who I helped and people who helped me. 

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