High school sports are key to a better school experience

Whether it’s fall, winter, or spring, participating in sports can uplift your high school experience.

Not only do sports make the school year go by much faster, they can also help with meeting new friends and keeping your grades up.

Freshmen Kasey Palmer and Isaiah Constant agree that sports has improved their experience with starting at a new school.

Palmer said she has been participating in school sports since she was in third grade.

Freshman Kasey Palmer has participated in multiple sports.

“I have played basketball, volleyball, tennis, and softball,” Palmer said. “Now I just do basketball, tennis, and volleyball.”

Palmer said that playing sports in high school “gets you more involved with the school, you get to know a lot more people, and it just helps overall.”

For freshmen and transfer students, it can be difficult to find new friends and learn how to get around the high school.

Constant, who played football in the fall, said that the best part about playing sports is learning new things and meeting new people.

Constant said he likes “getting to know how everything really works and being around people you don’t know so you can know them and become friends with them.”

Playing a sport during high school can also increase a student’s motivation to succeed.

“It makes everything so much more fun,” Constant said. “And with sports you have to have your grades high, so it’s making your grades higher.”

Participating in something you have never tried before can be scary, but it will be worth it in the end.

You get to meet more people, and a lot of the time you get to keep being friends with them outside of the season.

— Gabrielle Ropp, junior

Junior Gabrielle Ropp has successfully tried out for the golf and softball team.

“It definitely gets you to get outside of your comfort zone,” Ropp said.

It’s important for underclassmen to try out for sports at some point in high school, even if it is something they have never tried.

“It’s just another way to get into school,” Ropp said. “You get to meet more people, and a lot of the time you get to keep being friends with them outside of the season.”