Senior Leadership Scholarship Essay 13

In high school, I have been placed in many places with the opportunity for grand leadership. I am in 20/20 Leadership, National Honor Society President, student council representative, captain of the varsity volleyball team, and I work at Rally House to soon become a team lead. There have been many opportunities given to me where I have had to express and undergo the pressure of being a leader. For example, I have been working at my job (Rally House) since about June of 2024, and in late October or early November of 2024, the managers that I had been working with quit, which meant that new leadership was coming forth. When these new managers and leaders were placed in my workplace, they knew nothing. They were super confused and trying to learn certain basics while trying to exert dominance over their new workers, train themselves, and hire more workers.
The managers soon realized that they were not making any progress trying to do everything themselves, so they had to lean on certain workers, but not all the workers were trying to help them or even willing to help them progress. They then saw that they could lean on me. I knew what it felt like to be a new person and not know anything, and people look and treat you like an outsider. I gave them my number email, and I made myself completely available for them to get to know the workplace they were just put in and figure out how everything flowed. Any questions they had, any discrepancies they came across, any confusion they had with a rule, or even just wondering how to do something specific on the computer, they asked me. They would text me while out of work, at work, or even at school if they had a question they were going to ask. They scheduled me more hours and gave me more responsibilities because they saw my potential. If someone called in, they called me to come in, if they did not know what people were good at, they would ask me to help place them somewhere, if other associates needed help with something, they would recommend for them to ask me. So I went from being a regular sales associate to being one foot into being farther into being a team lead, and that came with more responsibility on top of my already busy schedule at school.
In the future, I plan on attending the University of Missouri-Columbia. I intend to study physical therapy and possibly a minor in social psychology. I am hoping to become an athletic trainer one day and social psychology to understand the minds of everyone and possibly bring awareness to athletes who are struggling mentally. I want to use my adaptability skills to help athletes in pain while also pursuing my hopes of one day owning my practice and exerting leadership on the peers I work with as well as my employees. I come from a small enough city and a super small high school, and I was always super scared to go to a large school, but after this experience and many others, I realized that I have to share my talents and ways of leadership with everyone with all fears aside.