Bianca Dostie '25 Recruiting Profile

 I think about my life and how my entire life revolves around sports. I don’t mean just watching sports and sitting on the couch and watching the Super Bowl with family and friends. I mean, playing sports is my life and has been since a very young age. I’ve played just about every sport that was ever offered to me, from golf to wrestling, which I still do today. I’ve played soccer, basketball, softball, baseball—you name it, I might’ve done it. Through all of the sports, I never had something specific I told myself; there was no phrase, no song lyric, that I would repeat to myself in my head. 

I always just thought about the result and whether I’d win or lose. Sometimes I would think about how much it hurt to lose or how practice was really hard that day. But at the end of the day, I could always come home, have my peanut butter and jelly sandwich, watch my show, and be comforted about my losses. But as I grew older, I started to realize that not everything is about winning. There is no such thing as a failure; you can’t fail. Failing is just a first attempt at learning. Not everything can be known right away; you can’t know every move or every scrimmage instantly.

Everything takes time, no matter how big or small, complicated or simple. With time I found a mantra, and that is to always pay attention to the little things. Losing isn’t the end of the world; pain is temporary; and there is always a way to improve and better yourself. Yes, there will always be somebody out there who is stronger than me, faster than me, smarter than me, or something else. No matter what you do, there will always be somebody better at it, but that’s okay; that’s just life. 

No matter what, there is always a way to improve yourself, and to improve yourself in any way, you just have to put your mind to it. Whether it’s a small change to your daily routine, starting a diet, doing more exercise, or doing a couple extra math problems on your homework. It will make a difference, sometimes big and sometimes small, but no matter what the size, it is still improving, and even the littlest bit matters. A lot of little things matter, such as hugs, I love you's, small random acts of kindness, helping someone cross the road, or helping someone who is stuck on a problem. Many little things in life matter so much that sometimes you don’t even notice them, and then you look back on them later and think "Wow, that meant a lot to me" or "I needed that hug". 

     Sometimes the little things, like losing a wrestling match or missing that shot on the court, matter too. Those moments matter because you can learn from them. Losing that match or missing that shot gives you something to improve on. You’ll look back on it and think to yourself, Next time, I’ll do a duck under, or next time I’ll get that double leg, and you'll practice it. Wrestling is like my first love it will always hold a special place in my heart that no other sport can have. With love comes pain, and that pain is losing and from pain you learn that losing is a learning experience; losing gives anybody and everybody an opportunity to improve upon what they’re doing. I will always try my hardest to improve upon what I’m doing; I won’t cry when I lose; and I will always try to be better next time but not just for my self but for my mother.

I unfortunately lost my my mother in 2019 due to reasons I can not say, but she was my number one motivator. She always pushed me to the best version of my self that I could Possibly be and never missed a sports event I had. I know this because no matter how long the event was no matter how far away I could always hear her in the crowd yelling "GO BIANCA YOU GOT THIS". She never failed to be there for me even though she suffered from mental illness, which is a reason I want to go into psychology when I get to college. 

That however is not my only reason for wanting to go into that field, my grandfather Michael Dostie. Works at Spur-wink as the shop teacher, I have seen what he dose for work and how much of an impact he has made on the people around him. I want to be able to do the same and change peoples lives for the better and help in ways that others cannot. I already plan on starting my journey into psychology in high school, for my senior year I am going to take Thomas College Psychology which will give me college credit. I hope to pursue my love for psychology and passion for wrestling for a long time and hope that it takes me to great places and brings more memories that I will never forget.