<p>timely - from my understanding, a competitive, contact, team sport is the ideal in WPs eyes.<br>
One of the field force officers on prospective.net posted on this topic last year, and I will summarise his thoughts:</p>
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<li>Being a cadet at WP is a contact sport - you need to be able to hit and take a hit, and gut out the though times (mentally and physically)</li>
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<p>He divided sports into three categories:</p>
<p>First tier sports (contact sports): wrestling, martial arts, football, lacrosse, rugby, basketball, soccer, women’s softball, etc. </p>
<p>Second tier sports (“gut it out” sports): cross country, crew, swimming, orienteering, skiing, etc., </p>
<p>Third tier sports: Golf, table tennis, badminton etc.</p>
<p>He emphasised that team sports were important and that the level of competitiveness was key, especially when considering a candidate with third tier sport.</p>