"She's invincible" Duke and Stanford Supp.: Impact of an extracurricular experience on you

"She's invincible!" I raged to my coach. In response, he simply laughed. "Sweetie, in tennis no one is invincible. The only invincible opponent I've ever played is the wall." The wall. I took those words to heart. During matches, I repeated that phrase in my head over and over. Interestingly I began to win more matches. But I had no clue why. It was years later at tennis camp, when the camp director gave us this speech did I finally find my answer: "Tennis is 80% mental. It is through mental toughness, the ability to stay level-headed, the ability to prevent your fears from stressing you, the ability to not throw down your racket and admit defeat. Only when we perfect our mental game can we win." All these years I had been perfecting my mental game. I had learned to stay calm and to fight. I had mental toughness.

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over and over again.

Overall. it is nice. But you may reconsider the last 2 sentences, which sound a bit cheesy.

I liked this essay. Through the example you allowed the reader to learn something about you that you got from the game. Good essay.