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Soccer and medicine - they seem worlds apart, but both have molded me into the individual I am today and whom I look to be in the future. Soccer has motivated me to become the best at what I do and push me to always work on my weaknesses. Medicine has humbled me, challenged my adolescent years, and given me a bright purpose for my future.
Raised by a second-generation Italian mother and first-generation English father, my passion for soccer is unyielding. I have played ever since I was a little boy. I first started playing in the neighborhood casual recreational league, but as I grew older, I started playing more competitively, and eventually started playing for one of the highest rated Michigan travel soccer clubs, known as Vardar.
Vardar brought a new dimension into my life. All of a sudden, at 13 years old, I started training three to four times a week just so I could make the starting team for the weekend games or upcoming showcasing tournaments. I was motivated and did not accept my failures, but greeted them with a challenge and long hours after my teammates had already gone home. I remember one particular afternoon; I spent three hours after practice solely working on my free kicks, improving every detail in my technique. I am a team player as well. My work ethic exceeds success for myself and radiates to my teammates.
By the age of fourteen I was picked to play for Vardar’s Youth Academy team. We were exceptional players and at this point in my career I was considering soccer as my future professional career choice. But then something happened in my life that had more impact on me than anything soccer related ever could have.
My mother was diagnosed with stage three uterine leiomyosarcoma in January 2009. My mother, with such courage and optimism, opted to not go through the traditional chemotherapy route because the survival rate was only 50%, but instead involved herself into a clinical trial. This is where I met Dr. Scott Schuetze. He was my mother’s oncologist and put her through this new clinical trial at the University of Michigan. Since my mother has been completely cleared of her cancer, I can look back and say those days really changed me and outlined my future self.
When my mother told me about her cancer, I thought the worst, but vowed to go with her to all her appointments. After meeting her doctors and all the nurses, I felt much more at ease. All these people cared so much and wanted to help so badly. I saw the hope in my mother’s eyes each time Dr. Schuetze would mention that the treatment was going well. I wanted that. I was addicted to the power of hope and love these doctors had. I wanted to be looked as someone who only has the intention to help and cure.
The combination of my soccer habits - determination and taste for success in parallel with my compassion and love for medicine will allow me to be a very well rounded and effective doctor. Not only do I work extremely hard at everything I do to reach my goals, but also I do so with such passion and awareness of the people around me.
THANK YOU!
Soccer and medicine - they seem worlds apart, but both have molded me into the individual I am today and whom I look to be in the future. Soccer has motivated me to become the best at what I do and push me to always work on my weaknesses. Medicine has humbled me, challenged my adolescent years, and given me a bright purpose for my future.
Raised by a second-generation Italian mother and first-generation English father, my passion for soccer is unyielding. I have played ever since I was a little boy. I first started playing in the neighborhood casual recreational league, but as I grew older, I started playing more competitively, and eventually started playing for one of the highest rated Michigan travel soccer clubs, known as Vardar.
Vardar brought a new dimension into my life. All of a sudden, at 13 years old, I started training three to four times a week just so I could make the starting team for the weekend games or upcoming showcasing tournaments. I was motivated and did not accept my failures, but greeted them with a challenge and long hours after my teammates had already gone home. I remember one particular afternoon; I spent three hours after practice solely working on my free kicks, improving every detail in my technique. I am a team player as well. My work ethic exceeds success for myself and radiates to my teammates.
By the age of fourteen I was picked to play for Vardar’s Youth Academy team. We were exceptional players and at this point in my career I was considering soccer as my future professional career choice. But then something happened in my life that had more impact on me than anything soccer related ever could have.
My mother was diagnosed with stage three uterine leiomyosarcoma in January 2009. My mother, with such courage and optimism, opted to not go through the traditional chemotherapy route because the survival rate was only 50%, but instead involved herself into a clinical trial. This is where I met Dr. Scott Schuetze. He was my mother’s oncologist and put her through this new clinical trial at the University of Michigan. Since my mother has been completely cleared of her cancer, I can look back and say those days really changed me and outlined my future self.
When my mother told me about her cancer, I thought the worst, but vowed to go with her to all her appointments. After meeting her doctors and all the nurses, I felt much more at ease. All these people cared so much and wanted to help so badly. I saw the hope in my mother’s eyes each time Dr. Schuetze would mention that the treatment was going well. I wanted that. I was addicted to the power of hope and love these doctors had. I wanted to be looked as someone who only has the intention to help and cure.
The combination of my soccer habits - determination and taste for success in parallel with my compassion and love for medicine will allow me to be a very well rounded and effective doctor. Not only do I work extremely hard at everything I do to reach my goals, but also I do so with such passion and awareness of the people around me.
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