I Would Not Classify Myself As An Athletic Or Sporty Person

Sports was a part of my life growing up - whether it was attending games with my family to support the Huskies at Rentschler Field or Wolfpack hockey games at the Hartford Civic Center or even being part of a basketball team since before middle school, I have grown to love the atmosphere that sport brings. Whether it was assisting my Mom coach in our town’s T-Ball league or working with the disabled or even with the students at Wish Elementary School, through sports, I have been able to build a solid sense of a wider community. It is not just about the game itself but it is about what happens in-between and after. It is the indescribable bonds that form between

I’m seventeen years old and i’m a senior attending Weslaco East High School. Some interests i love doing is playing sports. Growing up I came from a very outgoing family, we usually played outside or went camping.

From my first T-Ball team to my senior year track club, the comradery and confidence I have gained from competing on numerous sports teams has made an enormous impact on my life. Growing up, I went to a very small Catholic school. With less than 100 students in the entire school district. In third grade, our family moved to Manteno. Where each grade level had at least 120 students. Baseball and Basketball were crucial for me in my early years. It was how I became acquainted with most of my friends growing up in Manteno. If it wasn’t for competing on a team, I would have stayed timid for the rest of my life. With the confidence sports have gave me, I have been able to challenge myself to experience the world and all

Student-athletes have a very difficult social life because of various responsibilities; many of those include doing well in school, exceeding expectations in their sports, and being a good role model for peers and other students.

Sports has a way of uniting people, regardless of their age, gender, or race. The students of City Youth look forward to their

If I never joined the basketball team I don't know if I would have ever been able to find friends to express myself with. You can learn a lot from friends at a young age, I found out we had more in common than just basketball. Joining the organized sport just opened doors to numerous possibilities for me. I decided to get more involved with other organized activites such as

Sports is a great way to get a child into socializing with other students. A lot of schools believe that school are more into academics than socializing. When you think about it tho as we get older and get jobs we have to learn how to socialize with other people. It's how life works socializing is a major key for living in the world that we live in today.

As a child, I attended the Gibson Southern Volleyball Camp every summer, and I absolutely loved it. It was at that moment, at my first camp, I knew I had found my thing. I started out playing volleyball at Haubstadt Community School and I played all throughout middle school, and I loved it. I loved it so much that I decided to tryout for the Gibson Southern Volleyball Team and I was a nervous wreck. I went from believing I wasn’t going to make it to being the only girl from Haubstadt to make the JV team and I even made the team over some upperclassmen. I was ecstatic at first, but then I quickly realized that all of my friends made the team below me, the C team, and I didn’t have anyone on my team. Fortunately, that quickly changed. Volleyball brought me many friendships that I wouldn’t change for the world.

On any given sunny day, when flowers were blooming, and grass was growing, there was a game of basketball being played. I sat on my auntie’s porch watching the older teenagers and sometimes adults fearlessly tackle the game as if they were playing for the world championship or at least the national title. The only title gained was bragging rights for the rest of the day. Despite the horrible language, the twisted ankles, and sometimes busted lips, the players continued to show up daily to compete. Although I was a tad bit scrawny for my age, I desperately and eagerly wanted to join the game. I knew then I wanted to learn the sport, and it wasn’t long before I began to do so. Eventually, basketball became a passion as well as therapy for me. Every day, I dreamed of being the next Maya Moore or Skylar Diggins. Although that dream never came to be, my love of the sport continues. There are many players who agree that basketball helped them just by being on the team. Others swear that they learned to make better decisions in their lives because they played the sport as youths. Some experts even suggest that

Since I came from a small middle school and wouldn’t know anybody coming into high school I decided to play football so I would make friends over the summer. Since then every friend I have at sSchool has come in some way shape or form come from playing a sport. It also makes family reunions/random encounters more enjoyable with adults. I always have some things to talk about with my grandpa, cousins or uncles regarding how my basketball team is doing this year, or what kind of offense we run in football. Not only has sports dominated my social life with my peers, it also connects me with all athletes past and future. This shows that

Every year over 7,807,000 high school students, including me, play a sport through their school (they are counted twice if they play two sports and so on) (NFHS). I have found that playing basketball is a great way to be involved in the school and meet new people. However, in the past 7 years sport participation in middle and high school has gone down by more than 4.9% (Facts: Sports Activity). Playing a sport is important, studies show that playing sports in high school not only builds character, but can also increase student health and fitness, and contribute to an athlete’s future success.

There are several reasons why I am athletic. The ways I am athletic and stay athletic is through training and playing football, basketball, and baseball. First off, I train to get into shape. I do push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and many other exercises like that. Also, I practice all the different sports and do different workouts to get better. The first sport that comes around is football. I play quarterback and linebacker and have been very successful. The past two years the teams I have been on haven’t lost a game! Next, is basketball, and it is my favorite sport. I have played it for all my life and still play it today. I play point guard and I like to shoot. During my basketball years, I have made many buzzer-beaters and

And for those who were a bit down on themselves because their grades are not as a high as a friend or a sibling, their self-esteem can be boosted by a good perfornance on the field. Even kids crippled by severe shyness can emerge from their shell by spending hours in the dugout or on the sidelines with their peers. But above all, participating in sports can lead to hours and hours of

Living in New Jersey while being from Australia, a completely different continent, made it hard for me to associate with a certain community. I'm mixed, my dad with Irish ancestry and my mother with Indian ancestry. It was really hard for me to make friends, and belong with different groups. In the fourth grade, I was friends with a several peers that played basketball. I decided to play because I wanted to hang out with them more, and then it developed into me falling in love with basketball. In high school, my closest friends all play basketball with each other at a local gym whenever we can. Playing and learning about the game is one of the few things that genuinely makes me happy. One of the coolest things about this basketball community

Children who participate in sports are developing rapidly in sports skills, sportsmanship, and psychologically, but does this come from organized sports are just nature’s process. Children develop emotional and social benefits from participating in sports. Children experience character and leadership development through peer relations leading to an increase in self-esteem and a decrease in anxiety levels. Children will get opportunities to experience positive and negative emotions throughout their practice and games trials. It is important for the coach to understand the “psychology of youth sports and physical activity participation” (Weinberg & Gould, 2011 p.516).