Alonzo Mourning's Resilience

Overcoming the Odds: Analysis of Alonzo Mourning’s Resilience
Ten years old. This was the age when Alonzo Mourning made a decision to break away from his parents and join a group home. Not many ten year olds I know are even close to making a decision like this. The best part is that Mourning made this decision because he felt that he was leading too reckless of a life, and he wanted to make a change from that inattentive environment. Mourning came off as a very mature, young man at a very young age. The instinct to improve his life helped him grow as a person throughout his years in school. He had a natural ability to make the right decisions. And if he did not make the right decisions, he carried the ability of learning from his mistakes. And in Alonzo Mourning’s book, Resilience, Mourning describes his life lessons in fine detail. I trust the legitimacy of Mourning’s words; his values are positive with good meaning, and as an athlete, I greatly look up to and idol his successes.
First off, Mourning has not breezed through life without any issues. This man has gone through numerous struggles and has also overcome many obstacles. I trust the legitimacy of his words because, he has been through occurrences that I have never experienced and may never experience. The people who guided him through life were also very respected and intelligent. And a place where Mourning has learned many of his lessons is college. A person who greatly impacted his life in college was Coach Thompson, his Georgetown basketball coach. This man became more of a father figure to Mourning. Coach Thompson looked after Mourning as if he was his own son and not just another basketball player. An example of Coach Thompson’s impact was through Mourning’s run-in with D.C.’s most notorious drug lord, Rayful Edmond. “Ray was considered such a prime target that, rather than keep him in regular jail- even in solitary- they housed him at the Quantico Marine base in Virginia and flew him to court in...