Having family on sidelines helps

Support. It’s looking up into the stands and hearing the cheers of your family. It’s striving to earn good grades to see their proud faces. It’s knowing that, no matter what, they’ll always be there for you.
“I have four different families to support me,” Andres Flores, junior, said. Both his father and stepfather are coaches on the junior varsity football team, his sister Jeana Correa, senior, is a cheerleader, and his mother and step mother go to most of his games.
He says that at times it can be awkward to see both his father and step father work together, but it’s nice knowing that they are there. Flores realizes that he has more support than most and he finds that it has helped him succeed. By having his family behind him, he has been able to do his best in school and athletics.
Trenese Manning, senior, also finds that a big family full of supporters helps her work harder to succeed. She says that without her family behind her, her life would be a lot harder.
“I’ve seen people who don’t have any support and it’s just terrible,” Manning said. Most of her family comes out to her games, and it resembles a “family reunion.”
On game days, her family members are the loudest people in the stands, and she enjoys hearing them cheer her on. Manning says that she receives a lot of support from her brother, Treyvon Manning, but they often make things a competition.They often see who can get the higher grades and who can score the most points in a game.
Correa finds that she competes with her brother as well and that they’re both pushed toward bright futures. “In my house, if you bring home less then a 3.5 then you’re asked… ‘What’s wrong with you?’”
These three individuals agree that the support they’ve received from their families has given them the motivation to be good students and athletes. They also say that they think that support is necessary in life because without it then kids can lose sight of where they’re going.

“Some people are self-motivated, but it always helps to have that extra support,” Correa said. She thinks that while it’s possible for a person to succeed without support, a loving family or friends makes life a lot easier.

Flores says that support is what helps kids take the right path in life. It inspires them to dream of a brighter future and to work towards it. People without support often end up on a dark path that they’re unable to get off of.

Support comes in many forms. Whether it comes from a bustling crowd at a game or proud parents at home. Support is what drives Flores, Manning, and Correa to succeed.