Signing ceremony, solemn and touching

cypresspat
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:21:11 +0000

@amsunshine I see your point (and all of my kids were/are athletes, too). But I think my point was that this ceremony wasn’t at all a ‘look how special these kids are!!!’ but more of a ‘now the really tough part begins’ thing. It didn’t glorify them, at all. I sort-of expected it to, but it didn’t.

And, at least in my HS, they make a BIG deal about the high academic achievers. Not to mention most of those kids get WAY better financial deals for college than the athletes do.

Playing D1 sports AND being a student at these not-at-all-easy universities will be challenging. And these kids know it. No college was anxious to recruit me, as a . 5’ 4” basketball player, but going to college was pretty intimidating to me, academically. Expected to be an impact player on a team, too? Pfffft…I was not strong enough of a person to do that when I was 17. These kids were sobered by what is to come, for sure. But they are going for it. Impressive.