Misty Copeland

Misty Copeland is an extremely brave person for doing what she love. Even though she had many difficulties, she still kept her head up and kept doing what she love. She is really persistent and knew it would be difficult to overcome that hardship. She knew people would doubt her, and she took that to consideration as her motivation. In some ways, I can really connect to her and I know how it feels to be doubted on. She did what she love and at the end it paid off. She was consider the most popular and recognizable ballerina that is African-American, which is hard to overcome by because the society’s perception on ballerina back then. People back then thought ballerinas were white and they would start at a really young age. Misty Copeland overcame all those assumptions in Ballerina’s and became famous for her hard work and dedication to that activity. The underarmour video inspired me and had a relevant theme to many people such as myself. I felt like I had a connection with the video, which seems a little weird because I’m not a ballerina, but with basketball I can relate to what the general idea of the video is trying to show.