First Day Introduction

ARP

August 31, 2010

Journalism 100

Introduction

Word Count- 361

            Katie is an 18 year old freshman at the University of La Verne from La Puente, California. Katie initially wanted to attend Arizona State University instead of La Verne, but there were some discrepancies that prohibited her from attending. Some of her interests and hobbies include playing soccer, working out, listening to music and attending concerts.

            When interviewing Katie, you could immediately sense her passion for soccer and her love for the sport. She played on the soccer team at her High School, Bishop Amat High School, and played on a girl’s soccer team that made history for the school by being the first girl’s soccer team to win two tournaments, win their league and make it to the semi finals. Her team’s season was cut short by a loss in the semi final game, and Katie expressed her unhappiness toward this. “When you look around the gym, you see banners of all the teams that won championships and girl’s soccer doesn’t have one”, says Katie.

            In regards to the relationships in her life, Katie has no significant other and does not have much of a relationship with her parents and older brother who also attends the University of La Verne and plays on the soccer team as well. Katie claims that she just recently started speaking to her brother and that she doesn’t really speak to her parents. She states that she doesn’t know why she doesn’t have a great relationship with her parents and that they are good parents. She also states that she grew up wanting to be on her own and that was the reason why she wanted to attend Arizona State.

            Katie is a member of the La Verne women’s soccer team and later on in the day of this interview she and the rest of her team would be informed of the 18 out of 28 girls that would be selected to go on the first big soccer trip of the season to Pennsylvania. Katie stated, “I’m pretty sure I’m going to go on the trip. I hope I go on the trip.”