How To Be Considered A Tomboy

Sports have been a huge part of my life ever since I was about five years old. It has impacted my life so much. The biggest challenge that I faced was with my injuries during basketball and soccer season. I recently had to quit soccer and basketball, which was difficult for me.

Ever since I was young I have been the athletic girl in my grade. I played every sport

All my life, I have participated in sports. I ran track and cross country, and played volleyball, basketball, and softball. After all those years in multiple sports, I acquired endless amounts of participation trophies, medals and ribbons. These awards were given to me in hopes that I would continue to engage myself in the sport or to feel like my contributions to the team mattered. The adults might have even hoped I would fall in love with the sport. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I ended up quitting all of those sports excluding softball going into high school. I was not even that bad of a player. I actually was on the A team for a majority of the teams.

I have always enjoyed being involved in school activities. By the end of my high school career, I will have played volleyball and golf all four years. Although I was never the superstar or the best on the team for either sport, I always enjoyed playing and being supportive of my teammates. Getting involved with a team and making new friends has been half the fun. Not only do I play sports, but I also enjoy attending other sporting events. My favorite two sports to watch are football and basketball. While in third grade, I cheered on the 2004 Indian football team to a victory during the State game at Camp Randall. In 2012, I supported both the girls’ and boys’ basketball

Currently I am in cross country, basketball, and track, but I have done many other sports in the past. I joined the cross country team in 8th grade in hopes of finding a new passion. I fell in love with running and decided to join the track team that same year. Basketball is a different story; I joined in 3rd grade just because my parents signed me up as most sports go when you're younger, and I struggled greatly with learning and understanding the game. I spent long summers training in my yard trying to get better. This determination helped me significantly when it became time for tryouts, as I ended up making the higher team. To this day I still have a lot of determination when it comes to sports and most things in

Growing up in Louisiana I was surrounded by all kinds of different physical activities. All of my siblings were involved in sports and it was only natural that I developed a love for them too. As a child I remember going to the park to play basketball with my cousins or just playing football with everybody from the neighborhood. Sports became a huge part of my life, and I surrounded myself with people who loved them just as much as me. Things began to change when my family and I moved to Georgia. I noticed that I wasn’t playing football in the neighborhood anymore. The kids were different they would rather sit in the house and play video games instead of being outside. My love for sports was always there I just needed a spark to bring my passion back to life.

Growing up, my dad made sure that my brothers were involved in sports. Because he thought that football was too rough for them at a young age he signed them up for baseball. From then on out, we became a baseball family. Everything we did, all of our family friends were because of the sport. Even though, I did not play the sport, I still loved the game. It was the beginning of my seventh grade year when my dad informed me that it was mandatory that I participate in an extracurricular activity and because my dad was the authoritarian saying “no” to him was not a question. It was then that I decided to join a softball team.

Growing up, both my brother and I were very involved in athletics; from baseball/softball to basketball to football to track and volleyball. A competitive spirit was instilled in my life at a early age. As I got older, I focused mainly on softball; competing around the country in hopes of gaining a college scholarship. Sadly, the summer before my junior year I tore my rotator cuff and labrum in my shoulder and messed up multiple muscles throughout my arm and back. Therefore, my softball career came to an end.

I have always loved sports ever since I was a little kid. Some of my earliest memories are of playing soccer with my friends on a wet, cold spring day or hitting a ball off of a tee and feeling like it went a mile, when in reality it only went about fifty feet. Even to this day I still can never get enough of sports. I get about four weeks off out of the entire year where I’m not technically in a sport, but I’m still always practicing and trying to get better because that’s the only way I know. I love everything about sports: the friendships, the competition, the passion, the atmosphere, the unity. Sports are one of my true loves and they consume my life. It is this strong desire that I have for sports that has driven me to want to pursue a

My mother has been playing competitive softball since before I was born. Even to this day, at the young age of 66, she still enjoys playing on the circuit. My brother was a talented basketball player in high school and junior college until a car accident thwarted his dreams, I myself, was a 3-sport star in high school and I earned a scholarship to play football at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I was taught from a very early age that my performance in sports rests with my ability to consistently control my emotions. I have been trained to respond positively inevitable changes and

I started on the basketball and football team. The thing about basketball though, is that I didn’t have the best attitude. Basketball is the sport I love and when I had a bad game I would get down on myself. It never worked out for me when I got down especially during a game because it threw my game off. I never learned how to control it this year, so basketball had its up and downs. A part about me being a freshman and that I was a Junior High kid but also a High School kid which meant I played High School sports. I quit High School football for a little while and joined

All the way up to my senior year I played sports. I ran cross country and track and played basketball as well. I didn't play my senior year because I moved and I didn't have enough classes to play sports. When I look back I don't understand why I was so crazy about sports. I put up with so much crap. I hated cross country and I hated my team and the coach. I never understood why people took running so serious. The only reason I could even think why I played sports and put up with all the crap was to stay in shape. I hated my cross country coach Weaver it was like he had something out for me I could be his number one girl runner and he wouldn't even say good job he would yell at

The definition of a tomboy, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “a girl who behaves in a manner usually considered boyish.” (Merriam-Webster) Tomboys are quite common nowadays, but in the 19th century, when Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women took place, being a classy, elegant woman was the ordinary. The main character, Jo March, matches the definition of a tomboy perfectly. Alcott writes about the lives of four little women, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, and their experiences as they grow up. Three of these girls grow into the traditional type of woman. While, on the other hand, Jo goes against these customary ways. Specifically, Jo March defies the traditional domestic expectations of 19th-century American women by choosing to become

I still find myself watching and participating in sports, although not as passionately as I once had, but it is always in the back of my mind. I believe that I relate easily to the male sex because I understand their topics of interests that a lot of other girls my age do not. While I do identify as a girl, my interests, style of dress, laid back attitude, and casual appearance seem to identify more with the masculine identity. Whether this is due to the institution of sports or biological genetics, is a completely different argument.

Great post. I agree with what you've wrote. Androgenized girls would likely be into sports that men like, hate the color pink, dress a bit masculine, refuse to wear dresses, maybe talk a bit masculine too. Tomboys are said to be more adventurous and brave than the typical girl. Additionally. if the girl has a brother or brothers, older ones, they have a higher chance of becoming a tomboy. If the environment is more "boy-driven" because of older male siblings, and not in a family full of girl siblings, the girl will likely adapt the masculine characteristics. Mothers who had higher levels of the male hormone testosterone during pregnancy can also influence a girl's chance of becoming a tomboy. I read somewhere that said tomboys don't want to