STUDENT SPEAK: Why your sport? Part Two

I think water polo is better because you use more techniques and in the summer you can get tan with it and it’s refreshing and a good morning workout. Water polo is the best in many ways—not just physically but mentally too. Before every game and practice you have to always mentally tell yourself a goal that you will work on before entering the water, so that each day you get better and better....

We have the best aux, courtesy of me, so practices are fun. We also do fun bonding events like team dinners and bonfires and we have the best bus moments like blasting music, taking pictures, sharing our secret sister snacks and celebrating wins together. We have the best cheerleaders (all of the players on the sidelines that aren’t in are screaming super loud) and it creates a lot of support. We...

I joined my freshman year because all my friends were already in sports and I really didn’t wanna do PE. So I signed up for cross country thinking it would be an easy, easy thing to get my PE credit done with. But it was really hard the first few weeks, like we were starting off with six miles when I first started, and I had never run that much. So I was not doing too great at that time. But the...

Basketball is the best sport because it requires so many difficult aspects that all come together. It’s also how basketball is such a fast paced and a sort of unpredictable sport where everything happens all at once and there isn’t time to sulk on what just happened; you just shake it off and move onto the next possession. In basketball, if everyone is doing their part and really buying into each...