This Hat is a Helmet

  Read to me! Audio of this post here Have you found your sport? Growing up I was fortunate to have access to different sports. My parents signed me up for swimming lessons at a young age. They also put me in co-ed soccer and judo. Kids in my neighbourhood played a lot of ball hockey, which I continued to play in intra-murals in middle school, high school, and during my first years at university. In high school I was also on the track & cross-country running teams. Based on my sport profile above, it would be easy to picture me as an athletic kid. A young athlete who competed and won all sorts of trophies… Well. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Although I swam well into my teen years, I never competed. In the three to four years I played soccer, I only ever scored one goal. I reluctantly competed in one judo tournament, where I did place 3rd! However, there were only four competitors in my category. I was more engaged in ball hockey at school, but this was always just for f