Help Lambert keep chasing his American Dream!!!

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Hello Everyone!

I am Lambert, I am from Poland, and I play American Football for the Saint Joseph Regional school team in New Jersey. My biggest dream is to become a professional football player here in USA, and I am doing everything I can to achieve my goal. I’m studying here, and I think I’m doing pretty well (I recently get to into National Honors Society for my impressive school results), and regarding my sports development, I never missed a single training, and I am making huge progress every week. I am just starting the season where I will be playing Defensive End. It is a very important season for me because of how I play now depends on whether I get a college scholarship. So, everything would be going in the right direction if I hadn't lost my sponsor. I don't have the money to live and cover my final year of school and this is why, I would like to ask you for help, but before I do that, let me take you 5 years back to the time it all started.

I have had an interest in sport since I was a little boy, and I always knew that my future would relate to sport. But why did I choose American Football? The answer is very simple. Because my mom didn't let me go to kickboxing =D =D. Yes, it is true, my dear mother was afraid that I would come back from training with bruises and that something would happen to her little boy. So, since she didn't agree to kickboxing, I decided to find myself a different interest. It was October 2016, we were living in Walbrzych, Poland at the time, when I found out that the local American football team, Miners Walbrzych, was looking for players. I went to watch them play and I immediately fell in love with the sport. After the first 5 minutes of the match, I already knew that I would do everything to be on the field. My mother couldn't keep everything from me all the time, so she let me join their team. I was 13 at the time (almost 14) and the team only had an adult section, but I decided to try my hand anyway. It was not easy to me; I would call my first trainings rather a fight for survival than a good game. Older guys were throwing me like a piece of meat from one end of the field to the other end. I was coming home with bruises, but despite the horror in my mother's eyes, I was always coming back with a smile on my face. With each training I gain new skills and experience, and soon after, in 2017, a junior section was established in Walbrzych and then I started playing there. It turned out then that I am one of the three players with the most experience, so I helped get new guys into the team, it was really great!

We have never had too much in Poland, so in 2018 due to financial reasons my family and I moved to Kiel in Germany. I had to leave my team in Walbrzych, but I decided that I would not give up. Shortly after, it turned out that the decision to move to Germany was the best for our whole family. I started training with the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes where I turned out to be the youngest (I was 16 at the time) and the skinniest player in the team. Nevertheless, I started training and gave my absolute maximum to catch up with my bigger, more experienced colleagues. In my first season I won a starting spot as a receiver and became a much-needed character on the field and in 2019 I was elected to the representation team of the land of Schleswig Holstein and became a receiver at the tournament that year. Soon after, I was chosen rookie of the year in the team and began to take an interest in schools from the USA.

My wealthy uncle was very delighted with my achievements and offered me sponsorship and a trip to the states. He arranged and paid for my trip, flat and school, and it is a very good school. In January 2020, I moved from Germany to New Jersey to study and play for Saint Joseph Regional high school, which the team is ranked in the top 50 in USA. Uncle gave me an amazing start and an opportunity that I am not going to waste. As soon as I started training in SJR, I saw that the gap in the level of playing and training is huge (much higher level and much higher requirements).

Fortunately, I found amazing trainers who gave me a year to acclimatize. During this year I have trained very hard, even harder than ever before. I have made tremendous progress, both physically and in my football skills. Same with school, it was not easy for me. At the end of the day, it was another school in which I speak and learn in a different language;). However, I managed to cope with the new challenge, I learn very well and achieve good results. But most importantly, I met wonderful people at school, and today I am surrounded by a group of amazing friends. They also helped me a lot as due to various situation (mainly caused by covid) I had to move out to another flat / share house for several times. Since I moved to USA, I lived in Montvale, Fairfield, Stony Point, Park Ridge and Mahwah, what gives us 3 states within a year. But anyway, there was no problem so far that couldn’t be solved, especially that I had a great support from my family and friends, so I was never left with all that on my own.

2020 was a year of big changes to me, but now in 2021, everything began to take an even faster pace. I am a constantly trained and developed player, I changed positions from a receiver to a defensive end and I am about to play for my school and help my team win the state championship. For me it is even more important as if I play well in the upcoming season, then there is a serious possibility that I will get a chance to play at the next level for a Division 1 university. So, as I said at the beginning, everything was going in right direction, and it would stay like that if not the fact that I lost my sponsor. I wouldn’t like to go much into details here as these are family reasons which I would like to not share on public forum. However, after all that he has decided to leave me without funds. My parents tried to find some solution, they were even thinking of selling car and taking some loans to support me in here, but I am aware that it would make their and my younger sister lives much more difficult, so I have not agreed for this solution. Now I’ve got the last year of high school to do and the most important season to play to. If I do well, there is a huge chance that I will get a scholarship for my college as well. Thus, I would like to kindly ask you for help. I need funds to pay for my last year of school, for my accommodation and living. If I will not get funds to pay for all that, I have decided that I will go back to Germany, and I will continue to chase my dreams and goals there. Yes, I know, it will not be easy and not the same, but I am determined, and I will do everything to become an American Football player one day. However, if you help me, I promise to all of you that I will not disappoint you. I will train harder, and I will learn harder as well to get the scholarship and a place in the Division 1.