Varsity Sports, competitive clubs?

goldentrees100
Wed, 02 Sep 2020 23:52:22 +0000

For the past couple years I thought I was set on competing in varsity sports in college. I’d taken all the steps to get there and had even received a couple offers (it’s D3 though so that comes in the form of admission support).

Recently however I’ve been rethinking it a lot and am not so sure I want to continue pursuing my sport at a competitive level in college (esp because it’s a year round sport and very high commitment). So, I’ve been strongly considering just applying to college as a regular applicant instead of applying as a recruited athlete. However me being an over thinker, I’ve been doing research on clubs and student org’s in college since without a sports team I would want other ways to find my community on campus. As I research though I’ve found a few different threads talking about how clubs are advertised as “easy to join” but in reality many are competitive and require try-outs, interviews, and/or lots of money.

Is this more the case at big universities? Would majority of clubs be more lax/less cutthroat at smaller colleges and LACs? (below or around 5000 students) Like for example if I went to a small LAC and wanted to try acapella for fun because I like singing, would it be easy to join with minimal experience? Or at a bigger school, are there acapella clubs for various levels of experience?

I guess I’m asking all this because previously I had this idea that not doing a year round sport would open up way more opportunities and time for me to explore other things I’m interested in, and joining clubs throughout college wouldn’t feel like as much of a commitment. But was that just a misconception? Leave any advice below thanks:)

also if anyone knows a student who was given the chance but decided against pursuing college sports could they share their experience and thought process? thanks everyone