I am here to finish what I started. I'm here to see my goals to fruition. As for any other student-athlete, some things have worked and some things haven't. Now's the time to makes positive changes.
It is my responsibility and my privilege to pass on words of encouragement and to give the same congratulatory cheers and high-fives to underclassmen that will be in the process of realizing their true potential for the first time, just as I was three years prior. I need to reinvigorate those same feelings in myself and achieve at an even greater level. I need to make it happen. I owe it to my parents, my brother and sister, and family and friends, who unconditionally believe in me. I owe it to myself.
As a friend and former teammate once told me, I shouldn't be afraid to realize that right now, it's my time.