Just how impt are sports?!

journogirl05
Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:06:12 +0000

Sports are nice, but they most certainly can’t substitute for grades, scores, other involvement, etc. Like anovice said, EVERYONE has sports. These people can only read about 300 field hockey players before their eyes cross. But how many national-level debaters do they get? Award-winning JOURNALISTS (not just Average Joe’s working on Average Joe newsletters)? State-level violists? People fluent in three languages? Play sports for fun if you want to play them. But just know that at my school, most athletes that get signed do so for KU, K-State, or other in-state public school and JuCo’s. Our biggest success story was a young man who recently went to Vandy to play basketball who shall remain nameless. BUT he also had top grades, scores, ECs, etc. Point is, most athletes play in high school and stop, because they don’t have the talent or drive to play in college. However, MANY journalists, debaters, politicians, musicians, and artists kept up with their craft in college (top colleges).