Anything Essay

                                                    Mrs. Pollema

                                                                 English 9
                                                                Alexis Scott

Sports; an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others. There are many different types of sports in the world. Each and every one of them have their own way they work. In the USA the most popular sport would  be football.  In other countries people don’t even have a clue what football is, considering Spanish countries call soccer futbol.

There are all sorts of sports programs at all different kinds of schools. At my school we have; soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, dance, and track, the most well known sports. Every school is different. Willmar has hockey, a girls soccer team, a swim team, and a gymnastics team. At public schools, or schools without tuition, every student that plays a sport has to give a payment before they can play. We don’t have to pay a sports fee, but we do have tuition.

Different sports are played during different seasons. I pretty much play a sport every season! In the fall I play Volleyball, I am a middle blocker. Volleyball goes until about the end of November. Other sports going on in the fall is soccer, but we don’t have a girls soccer team, so it’s mostly a guy sport. In the winter I play basketball, I am a post. That means I stand up to the big girls on the court! In the spring I play JO, which is Junior Olympics Volleyball, and in the summer I play volleyball and basketball leagues. If someone were to ask me which sport I liked the most they wouldn’t get an answer. They are both great sports and I enjoy them both A LOT. I don't know what I would do if I didn’t play sports during the year.

One wise athlete once quoted, “ People don’t play sports because its fun. Ask any athlete, most of them hate it, but they couldn’t imagine their life without it. It's part of them, the love/hate relationship. It’s what they live for. They live for practices, parties,cheers, long bus rides, invitationals, countless pairs of different shoes, water, gatorade, and coaches you hate but appreciate. They live for the way it feels when they beat the other team, and knowing those two extra sprints they ran in practice were worth it. They live for the way they became a family with their team, and live for the countless songs they sing in their head while training all those hours. They live for the competition, they live for the friends, the practices, the memories, the pain, its who they are. Its who we are.” This athlete was Michael Jordan, and if anyone would know this to be true, it would be him.

That quote describes me. Except the part about hating the sport. I did hate basketball up until this last year, but I kept asking myself why I continued to play it. It must mean something. If you don’t play a sport, give it try. The worst that could happen is that you don't like it. At least you can say you tried!