So...I take intro to Sports Studies at a college, and my professor started talking about High School Sports. He told me how he thinks that Varsity sports are too focused on winning and that everyone should get atleast some playing time. Being a starter nearly all of my Varsity career, I have never thought about it from the benches point of view. Although I love to win and feel it prepares me for college, ensuring some playing time does not seem like a bad idea. I have always felt bad for those who do not play, but have never had to deal with it. Since my professor is the father of a "non-starter" he is always preaching about the competitiveness of Varsity. Are high school sports too set on winning? Should everyone get to play? What do you think?
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Not just varsity sports. Back in grade school, me and my classmates had a war over a dodgeball game!
We need to start telling the boys (I'm not being sexist--they are usually the more competitive ones) that it's the team spirit that matters, not winning or losing. Then again, we hear that phrase so often it becomes nothing but a meaningless cliche.
**Save English as a first language, yo.
I agree. Swimming is the same way at my school. It's always the best swimming and the ones who aren't as far along only get to swim two or three meets out of the whole year. They are a part of the team too. The injured swimmers even get picked over the mat warmers (again, that's what we call bench warming at my school for swimming). It seems like everyone gets a fair chance to compete in the dive meets at my school though. I'm not sure if that will be the case this year since I am having to relearn every dive I have ever learned, but we'll see, and I still have swimming to fall back on.