Elexi Nevaeh Pulido

I want to be recruited to play sports in college because it has always been my dream since I started playing sports when I was younger. I also feel it would not only benefit the healthy lifestyle I want, but it will also benefit my academics. Lastly, I just want to play for the love of the game.

One example of how I demonstrate leadership in both areas is that when our team is falling apart on the court, I take charge and bring everybody's spirit up, and make changes depending on the way the game is going. One example of how I demonstrate leadership off the court is when one of the "new girls" came to the sport I was in and had a lot of social anxiety. So I told her that if she really wanted to get better at the game, she was gonna have to put herself out there. However she did not want to, so I decided to take the lead and help her out, and help her get better after practices/conditioning, even during the summer.

I choose to eat healthy items over unhealthy items. I also have recently gave up soda so that my athletic performance would increase and my body would not be feeding off sugar. Furthermore, after all of my practices I go for a run to keep my cardio up. Lastly, I attend all of the summer conditioning/camps for my respective high school, keeping me in shape during the summer as well.

I am involved in FFA, and am an active member. Throughout FFA, I get many opportunities to help my community, such as donating animal items to shelters, or even cleaning up gardens at elementary school sites. This is important to me because I get to help my community in ways that I may have not be able to achieve before if it wasn't for FFA.