Anna Godfrey '21 Recruiting Profile

Sports have always been a big part of my life. They have shaped me as a person and taught me many life lessons whether those are on or off the track, field, or court. I have experienced success and failure through out my athletic career and those experiences have made me the athlete I am today. Through my successes I have learned how to be humble and compete as a team player to achieve those successes; but I have learned that my failures, although uncomfortable, have taught me much more than my greatest successes. In those failures I have learned what resiliency, determination, and hard work really is. Not only has sports themselves taught me many lessons but being a student athlete has given me an incredible work ethic and taught me discipline and time management. I strive to compete and perform at my highest level every time I step onto the track or into the gym because my ultimate goal is to compete at the collegiate level and I know I will never achieve that without hard work, determination, and the will to push the limits of what I think my body can physically do. I’ve learned over years that pain is relative, I’ve learned to embrace the pain and push through because pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Sports have also taught me patience and what passion truly is. Track itself did not teach me this but the injury I aquired while running track did. Last season I broke my foot. Over a year later I am still recovering from that injury. That is the reason I was unable to finish last season and also why I was unable to return and run this season. This injury has been the greatest tragedy and the biggest eye opener I have every experienced. This past year has been a year of discovering myself and learning so much about what sports truly mean to me. I’ve learned that sports are a big part of my identity and I can’t imagine my life without them. Sports are my hobby, my pastime, my social life, and my passion. Sports are a part of me and I hope to continue on to the collegiate level.