Smaller Sports Hit Hardest
November 20, 2008
by: Paige Carter
Smaller sports will undergo the most when the new high school opens. It can be hard enough to get players for the team to be included in the league, but when another school is added to the district the number of players will be cut by a third.
“Some sports will suffer from the splitting of the players,” states Rhianna Johnson, sophomore, “Like tennis, swimming, lacrosse, etcetera, but in some sports, like soccer and football, it won’t matter nearly as much.”
Teams with small amounts of players already will suffer even more when players are moved to East Ridge. In our district we have some of the biggest schools in the state, which means we should have some of the best teams because there are bigger varieties of students to choose from. Unfortunately our teams are not usually the best in the league which means that as the number of students in each school decreases the quality of the teams could also.
When the new school opens there are bound to be problems with people from opposite schools which have been rivals for years.
“It’s going to be hard for Park and Woodbury student to integrate,” says Elena Christensen, sophomore, “The rivalries have been so clearly distinguished some people will have a hard time accepting the other school.”
After a while people will get used to having Woodbury and Cottage Grove people in the same school. Everyone will get used to it eventually and especially when the students just starting Jr. High School right now get into high school. It will most likely not be weird for them to be friends with anyone in the school.
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This is so true it is not even funny
NO MORE BREAKFAST POTATOES
I find it funny that the reason behind the district closing the “open enrollment” policy is so people don’t transfer into the new school simply because its new. In reality, it is only preventing people in these small organizations from staying together. Some organizations and sports barely have enough people to function. Splitting them up makes it so neither Park nor East Ridge can have enough people to sustain those organizations. When the new high school opens up, Park will not have nearly the amount of extracurricular activities it does now.
Thankfully,
CLASS OF ‘09, not my problem.
Wow, thanks for taking out the “ah…um…yeahs”. You made me sound much more intelligent than I think I did. Haha
I completely agree with everything, though.
We can only hope that adding the freshmen will help us to expand our range of extracurriculars.
Great Article Paige!!!