High school sports

theski · Post by **theski** » 2006-02-09 12:57pm

This should help with the Other thread in OT

Post by **Cairber** » 2006-02-09 01:16pm

I voted "Yes, I enjoyed." But I think my experience is a lot different from the arguments in the other thread. Like I said there, we were a private school that didn't really "pay" coaches beyond a little 1800$ incentive (it wasn't anyone's day job, that's for sure.) We also had academic requirements for participating (which also included demerit limits and school attendance policies as well as GPA policies).

We bought our uniforms and equipment (for rowing, for example, it was 100$ in dues for the uniform and our boats/oars were donations that we sought- we'd sell seats in the boats or oars or whatever to local businesses...sometimes parents all chipped in 20$ and pooled for an oar or whatever. The equipment lasts a while, so it wasn't like we needed new boats or oars every year).

I have never taught/attended a low income school, so i don't really know if sports have a great effect on the students or how their funding goes. I will assume that every school is different, but that doesn't mean every school is in the shape to have sports teams outside of intramural kinds of teams.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-02-09 01:18pm

I voted no, didn't care. I go to PE lessons, do the required, put in the effort needed and try to go to the weight room as much as possible.

I might even like our sports program(except the vollyball obsession), it dosn't get too much cash or anything special. But I guess its a rare case.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-02-09 01:20pm

No. I had zero interest in sports, hated PE, and hated that attending sports assemblies was mandatory.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-02-09 01:39pm

I voted no. I generally find most sports boring and/or lack the motivation to care about them.

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2006-02-09 01:40pm

Sport, along with history, was the only reason I turned up for school most days. There was nothing I looked forward to more than a game of football against my mates either at lunch, during Games or after school. It also kept me nice and healthy - I wish I was still as healthy as I was back then, but university has turned me into a couch potato [quickly getting out of that routine though!].

CarsonPalmer · Post by **CarsonPalmer** » 2006-02-09 01:47pm

Yes, still do. Learned a lot from, made loads of friends from, still am doing both. Play football, the American kind.

Big Phil · Post by **Big Phil** » 2006-02-09 01:51pm

I'd love to see somebody who played high school sports get as fired up against the band and school plays as some people are getting about sports.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2006-02-09 03:30pm

Did Crew and track...our class won the only titles for my school.

At BEST it looked good for extracurricular and on my transcript to university. Nothing more.

Metatwaddle · Post by **Metatwaddle** » 2006-02-09 05:03pm

Played volleyball for two seasons because my school had a team sports requirement. Total waste of my time.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2006-02-09 05:06pm

Rugby at age 12 first thing on a monday morning on frozen ground was great.

Fuck PE, fuck it to hell, it was torture.

Haminal10 · Post by **Haminal10** » 2006-02-09 05:06pm

Played Football for my four years in high school. I loved every minute of it, and it got me in the best shape I have ever been in.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2006-02-09 05:14pm

Ran X-country, wrestled, and played tennis, had a great time. The coaches were our PE teachers and they just got the regular salary, they coached because of their love for sports. It was pretty fun, got to meet a bunch of cool people I otherwise wouldn't have met, and getting to miss classes was a bonus.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2006-02-09 05:18pm

Did Soccer freshman and sophomore year. Then did Track Junior and Senior. In my school most of the people involved in the teams were also high grade students, involved in the music department and got involved in the school plays and other stuff. Our coaches were for the most part members of the staff. The soccer coaches weren't.

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2006-02-09 05:25pm

Marching band is incredible. I honestly wish I joined it earlier than I did. It's an amazing experience to perform with a bunch of your best friends and become one of the best bands in New England.

I love the AV work I do, the lights are fun to work with, and can be a pain the ass. It's great fun.

Mock Trial is fun, especially when we make fun of the opposing team on the way home

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2006-02-09 09:35pm

Voted "no, didn't care", since the stuff I did (track in 8th grade) I don't consider significant enough to make that vote a "yes". I was no good, so I decided to quit rather than try and get better.

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2006-02-09 09:47pm

I participated in football in high school. (not the soccer kind) And I very much enjoyed it... while I played.

Now? Not so much, because my knees are shot to hell. To be fair, I haven't been completely kind to them since then, but the damage done during high school is what began the process and ultimately what cause the problems.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-02-09 09:48pm

No, got constantly bullied by the Star Football Jocks (who also were the Baseball Jocks, the Cross-Country Jocks, the Basketball Jocks, the Golf Jocks, you get the idea). Did get a modicum of respect when I squatted 185 within a week of doing some weight-room training. Seriously, I wish the weight room had been availiable to anyone and everyone at the school during PE; that woulda been nice. I'd probably have two or three times the muscle mass I have now and half the bullshit from the cornfed assholes in school...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2006-02-09 10:02pm

I did not participate in high school sports. I did, however, do marching band, which at the level my band was at was actually quite a physically intense activity. You could see the fat falling off people's bodies at band camp. I still pull my toes up high when I walk.

I wish I had done sports, though. Football would have been a bad choice for me, but I have long arms and I probably could have done decently at the discus throw. Or maybe lacrosse. It would have given me an incentive to get in shape earlier in my life - I didn't really start hitting the gym until I was almost 21 - and it also may have provided a channel through which to get ass.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2006-02-09 10:03pm

SancheztheWhaler wrote:I'd love to see somebody who played high school sports get as fired up against the band and school plays as some people are getting about sports.

Well, people will get fired up about band at the college level, but that has as much to do with the copious amounts of alcohol ingested at football games as anything else.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-02-09 10:04pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:No. I had zero interest in sports, hated PE, and hated that attending sports assemblies was mandatory.

What he said.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-02-09 10:43pm

I did cross country, and it was the most esteem-damaging thing I ever participated in.

Luke Starkiller · Post by **Luke Starkiller** » 2006-02-09 10:49pm

Swim team all the way through; got me into great shape and we had a lot of fun as a team, plus it had the cheapest uniform of any team in the school.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2006-02-09 10:56pm

I always put forth effort in PE. I was on good terms with several of the gym teachers, and expended as much energy as I could in whatever was being done that day (except the dance lessons. Luckily I was able to use a recent illness to get out of that). I was even not above the occasional showboating (my signature move was playing volleyball with only my head).

But as for the team sports, quite frankly it disgusted me. I did all sorts of stupid shit during gym class because it was fun, and I knew better than to take it seriously. But as for the teams, the same did not apply. They took themselves way too seriously. It wouldn't have been a problem had they just done that by themselves, but like many people they had those stupid fucking required pep rallies. Whatever team was playing at the time would strut around us academic types like they were doing us a charitable service. Meanwhile I would zone out while sitting on the floor in the seriously overcrowded gym (they had enough bleachers for maybe 75% of the student body, but it was still mandatory for all students to attend the same rally. And of course some bleacher space was reserved for people participating in sports) and dream wistfully of "Carrie".

Mr. Coffee · Post by **Mr. Coffee** » 2006-02-10 12:35am

I played golf, worked summer jobs to pay for my own gear, and since all the sports money went to either the football, soccor, or hockey teams, I also had to pay for time at the driving range and any course fees. Our coach was an idiot who's knowledge of the game was best summed up as "Hit the little white ball in the dirrection of the green...". This guy also taught what passed for a "health" class (basically we spent an hour sitting around watching those silly assed 1950'/1960's ten minute films). The man was a complete putz and he had the both the weakest swing and most vicious slice I've ever seen (This guy's slice was so bad the ball would go half again as far right as it did forward). To this day I still think "Titleist" is Latin for "Ah SHIT! I'm calling a mulligan on that..."

Luckilly, my Pop was a huge golfer and taught me how to play.

All I got out of the experience was a nice tan and a letter on a school jacket I never wore. Though I still like to spend the occasional day on the links chasing a little white ball around while swearing a lot.

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