College athletes

I have a sister that is a college athlete. She plays basketball for a non scholarship team that is around here. Last winter she was a freshman and started most all the games by the end of the season. Her team finished third in some national tournament and had a pretty successful season. They beat plenty of teams that had players on the roster that were on scholarship. She really had all kinds of fun playing, and is playing again this year. She might play all four years, but the nursing program gets a lot tougher after the second year and she might quit to focus more on her studies after this season.

My other sister was going to be a college athlete also. She considered herself a good soccer player in high school and got herself a tryout on the onu soccer team. However, they wanted her to arrive on campus two weeks early for conditioning. She wasn't going to have any of that, so she quit. One time that summer she borrowed my stopwatch so she could do a training mile run. I started it for her, and she brought it back after five minutes. It was still running. She thought she could play soccer at a higher level and couldn't run for more than 5 minutes straight. Needless to say, she didn't tryout and played on club teams for her fix. She even played on a club basketball team up there and was the tallest player on her team. She is only about 5'5".

My dad is really glad that my youngest sister is playing basketball. Besides the fact that he gets to go watch a bunch of basketball games, he thinks it helps the girl stay in school. My younger sister was ready to quit after her sophomore year for a couple of reasons. She lived alone that year and became really lonely. In high school she played all kinds of sports and always had a friend around. She came to miss that in college and was ready to move to UC and start school. Her now husband and my dad talked her into staying and things turned out well. She did find some good friends to live with for the other four years of her college career. My dad is of the opinion that girls need a support group to get them through school. My younger sister playing basketball gives her this group so she is happy.

My youngest brother claims that some schools talked to him about playing soccer, but he doesn't always tell the whole truth.

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