Jazlynn Ellis

My name is Jazzy Ellis. I am a 20 year old from Colorado, a Division 1 soccer player at the University of Illinois-Chicago and by default a college student. Throughout my soccer “career” I have faced adversity in many different forms ranging from verbally abusive coaches to double hip surgery. Most of which occurred before the start of my second decade of life. I declared myself to have hit my peak because I thought I was a washed up soccer player who underwent two hip surgeries and never felt like I was going to reach, nevertheless surpass, my previous achievements. I had the burning question most young adults have: What was the point? I didn’t know just how deprived of living I was. 

A wise man once wrote that “being lost but not realizing that we are lost is probably the most lost any human being can get” (that wise man is my therapist, Craig Lounsbrough). It was after going to a couple sessions with Craig (along with a sh*t ton of reminders to be patient), that I was encouraged to write this blog. I want to create something that hopefully somebody may read, athlete or not, and hear the positive voice in their head that has been silenced. If that’s not the case then at least I get to write about whatever I want for a page or two. But for now I’ll start with a mini series following the tribulations and triumphs of my college soccer benchwarmer career. Welcome to The Ambitious Juvenile! I hope Billy Joel will be proud.