academic and athletic success
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Casey Wittenberg
10/17/03
How I can achieve academic and athletic success at the same time and how they are related.
It all started when I was fourteen years old. I was living in Memphis, Tennessee, where I had lived all my life going to school at the highest academic center in the state. One day I got a call from David Leadbetter. Mr. Leadbetter was calling to try to see if I would be interested in coming down to Florida to work with him on my golf game. I was just fourteen years old, going to high school with all my friends and playing multiple sports. All of a sudden, I had the opportunity of my life to move to Florida and work on my golf game with one of the most famous instructors in the world. It was an extremely tough decision to have to make, not only for myself, but also for my parents.
Over about a three week period, my parents and I discussed the option of me maybe moving down to Florida and going to school, while working on my golf game with Mr...