Extra post

This is my mentor Coach Ana Mendez. We had a sports award dinner with everyone that participated in sports for Southlands. I was nice to see all my soccer teammates. I really missed them.It was also nice to see other I-Poly peers to get awards, we cheered like crazy! Ana Mendez was telling me to not stop playing soccer and that I could possibly make it to major soccer or a pro. It really encouraged me to know that my coach believes that I could "make it". I would like to play college soccer and maybe join a pro league. This journey has been amazing!

Blog 22: Senior Project Reflection

Content:

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your Bock Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

The most I'm proud of is that I overcame the challenge of having a good presentation and just overall coming up with my presentation. I also really liked my activity, I thought I connected it really well with my best answer and my audience looked like they really enjoyed the activity. 

(2) Questions to consider

 a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Block Presentation (self-assessment)?

      AE- 

I would give myself an AE- because I thought my slideshow was really well organized  and I explained everything really well. I also put as much sources as possible. I integrated my research in many slides I did all year as I presented. I also had many examples of my mentorship in my presentation. Overall, I think that my presentation flowed smoothly.

 b. What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project(self-assessment)?

AE

I would give myself an AE for my overall senior project because I found the best mentorship that would help me learn and find my answers to my essential question and my best answer. I also had useful research that I would apply to myself while playing soccer at Southlands, my mentorship with coach Ana Mendez. I did hard work in changing my own lifestyle, such as my diet to training every day to be the best I could be in soccer. I did physical work that not many people say they did. I was learning a new aspect of soccer that I didn't see in previous soccer teams I have been in. I also met all the deadlines for interviews, lesson presentations, and research counts. 

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

What worked for me in my senior project is my mentorship and having my mentors Coach Ana Mendez and Marissa Tipton. My mentorship helped me learn and love soccer for what it is. It gave me an inside perspective of what it takes for a soccer team to try and win CIF. My mentors  also helped me with whatever I needed just to gain confidence in playing soccer and to learn how to reduce the risk of injury while playing soccer. They were the best coaches I have ever had. If I had questions they would always provide answers! They took all their time in helping this team be the best and making it to the first round of CIF for Southlands, the  first girls soccer team.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

I would say preparing a little bit more in my presentations I have had this year. I would also say finding the right mentor in the first month of school instead of 3 months. But overall I really liked my outcome and how I had the ability to compete all senior project deadlines while still being busy with senior class events that needed to get done.

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors? Be specific and use examples.

The senior project has been really helpful in my future endeavors because it helped my researching skills improve and knowing what is good research and bad research. It helped me be more organized with my time and prioritize the most important things first. I also had the ability to get accustom to presenting in front of my peers. I got really good grades in my first 2 presentations so that is a result in my presenting skills. I know that in my senior year of college I will have to do a thesis, which is pretty much the same thing and I now know what I am up against and what type of work needs to get done to get a good grade. Of course it helped me work well under pressure. Having to finish core work with senior project and Vice President duties.   Lastly asking as many questions as possible. I would always ask my advisory and house teachers for help and opinions on what I should do. That's one thing that is really important to complete an assignment. If you don't ask for help you will never know.

Blog 21: Mentorship

Content:

Literal

done
Ana Mendez, Southlands Christian High School

Interpretive

 The most thing I gained from this experience is being a part of a high school team for my last year of high school and just being able to experience as a high school athlete what I takes to try and make it to CIF. The Southlands soccer team made it to the first round of CIF, which is a good start for the first year of the team. I learned some of the aspects of playing from playing high school such as training, traveling, diet, winning and losing games,  All these sub-sections are really important when it comes to playing soccer.This year's girls soccer team was the first soccer team ever at Southlands. I also gained being able to have a soccer family. My teammates have been through my ups and downs in soccer, through injury and when it comes to school projects for the I-Poly girls. I know that in every team there will always be improvement no matter what. Southlands soccer team started by barely winning a game 2-1 against a U-16 team then coming to lose  the best team in the league by 1 goal, 4-3. I saw a progress in this team.It was very hard but wasn't impossible to do.

Applied

 I had the chance to actually experience it with in my mentorship with coach Ana Mendez. I was seeing what drills or topics were very important for our soccer. The most important topic that coach Ana focused on was training to reduce the risk of injury. I got all my answers from seeing my team throughout the whole season and and other teams we played. For example how every soccer team may or may not have the same soccer formation but the field players might have a different role from the other team that would make a difference in winning or losing a game. 

Blog 20: Exit Interview

Content:

1) What is your essential question and your answers? What is your best answer and why?

My essential question is How can a girls soccer team best maximize their chances in winning CIF? My first answer is a girls soccer team can maximize their chances in winning CIF by utilizing a soccer formation that works best for your team. My second answer is reducing the risk of injury by performing balance, power and agility drills during training our team maximizes our chance to win CIF. My third answer is a soccer players should be on a high carbohydrate and low in fats diet to maximize their chances in winning. My best answer is my second answer, reducing the risk of injury by performing balance, power and agility drills during training our team maximizes our chance to win CIF. The reason I chose this as my best answer is because while doing mentorship with my mentor Coach Ana Mendez at Southlands Christian High School these drills are what we performed for 15 minutes at the start of practice. Injury is what affected the Southlands Girls soccer team at the first round of CIF. The other reason I chose this as my best answer is because girls are more prone to injury than male soccer players due to anatomical differences and hormone levels. I have found this answer by my research checks of Kirkendall, Donald T. author of Complete Guide to Soccer Fitness and Injury Prevention: A Handbook for Players, Parents, and Coaches.

2)What process did you take to arrive to this answer?

The process I took to arrive to this answer is going everyday to mentorship at Southlands with Coach Ana Mendez and Marissa Tipton. My mentors would always mention it and apply them as drills so I figured I should research more on reducing the risk of injury. Since I was researching this topic I was finding an abundant of articles because it is a well known section in soccer. The more I research the more I was knowing why Coach Ana Mendez had these drills in her soccer practices. I was starting to take these drills more seriously because they could injury can keep you from playing for a few months or at all.

3)What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?

Some problems I faced was finding the right mentor in the beginning of the year like September. The reason I had a problem was that Jaime Fuentes, coach of the Spain team, didn't really have knowledge or a license for coaching. He was coaching the team by his past experience of him playing. The way I solved this was hy joining the Southlands girls soccer team with Coach Ana Mendez and Marissa Tipton. On top of that being one solution it was 2 solutions because at the beginning of the year, around September,I wanted my topic to focus on a league in Pomona I joined with Spain called Pomona United and how a soccer team can win the league championship. At the time of my foundation presentation the league was folding and was splitting to make 2 different ones. There was no history or facts I could get from anyone. There was no more league. Southlands Christian High School became my permanent mentorship. The last problem was finding a ESA for my first answer,a girls soccer team can maximize their chances in winning CIF by utilizing a soccer formation that works best for your team because there was no studies done that I researched. There is no way in telling if a soccer formation statistically works. The way I solved this as by Mrs. Pittman recommended me to make my own study by comparing same position players from a league . The question I had to keep in mind was what makes that player help win a game? The position I researched was forwards. I had to get stats such as how many goals they scored, games started and games that they were subbed in from games they played from 2013-2014 in the Barclay's Premier League. It gave me a better understanding of what percentage a forward should have to win a game.

4)What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

The two most important sources I used was Kirkendall, Donald T., and William E. Garrett. The Complete Guide to Soccer Fitness & Injury Prevention: A Handbook for Players, Parents, and Coaches. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2007. Print. The reason why is because it gave me all I needed in one book. From nutrition, injury prevention, warming up and everything soccer player needs to know.

The other source being Nutrition For Athletes By Jennifer E. L. Anderson. It is my favorite source because it breaks everything down from what and athlete should eat. It was also easy to understand from the reading and apply it. I learned a lot of what to eat and not to eat from this source and kind of food to eat for a soccer player to have energy.

Independent Component 2

Content:

LITERAL

(a) I, Jasmin Quiroz, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b)  Ana Mendez, Coach of the Southlands Christian girls soccer team. I used the drills she taught the team during the season and past soccer coaches. I used them to train with my sister or usually alone.

(c) Done:)

(d) Since the Southlands girls' soccer season ended I had to find a way to do my 30 hours of independent component. What I did to complete these 30 hours was train on my own of all the drills I learned while doing mentorship at Southlands and past soccer teams I've been in. I would also try and come up with drills on my own. I have found that mountain biking has really helping me in the physical part of soccer. Biking helps me with endurance, core strength, and self reliance. I did 10.7 miles every time I went bike riding. I was also coaching my sister. Since she wants to get  back to playing soccer after her knee injury, I am trying to get her comfortable with bending her injured knee with agility drills. That focus on the cutting motion a soccer player needs to change direction. I am currently  in the process of helping my sister get fit to play soccer again. 

INTERPRETIVE

I am applying what I have learned from my previous mentor Coach Ana Mendez of Southlands and my interviewees. Such as drills, eating healthy, and training to get better in soccer. 

APPLIED

This component has helped me have a better understanding of my answers. I was experiencing these answers so I have knowledge of how they work and research on why they work. For example reducing the risk of injury by performing balance, strength and agility drills. These are the drills my team would do in mentorship with Coach Ana Mendez. I would do these drills in training for my independent component.

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