Veronica Kordmany
Editor '18
High school involves creating your future, especially once you are an upperclassman, you don’t really know much about what you future endeavors consist of. Who knows? You can be a good debater in high school, but grow up to become one of Food Network’s stars. If you’re the star quarterback for the high school football team, you’re probably looking or being looked at by colleges. Or if you’re the center cheerleader in your sophomore year, you could graduate early with a cheerleading scholarship. But how much does being apart of a school’s athletics program really impact a person?
According to Unigo, a college admissions website, being involved in a sports team can tie to multiple things in life, whether you use them later on in life or not. When you go to a game, you represent not only your school, but also your community. Say the Great Neck North football team plays against rival school Great Neck South. They represent not only their team, but their entire school as well. So, when the players graduate, people will remember the legacy they left behind, good or bad regardless.
Sports have been known to catch the eyes of not only local or school newspapers, but sometimes even news channels as well. Let’s say the Great Neck North football team were to go undefeated for an entire season. That would make headlines for a community newspaper, but considering the event doesn’t really pertain to anyone outside of Great Neck, there would be no point of covering it on, say, Fox 5 News. If, on the other hand, the football team were to continue this streak through the championships games and eventually make Nationals, that could be intriguing for rival schools, who could use the news to make them stronger. College admissions scouts also scour the sports’ sections of hundreds of newspapers, hoping to find the next shining star.
Unigo emphasizes how sports elevate an athlete’s ability to detect abstract details of their lifestyles that they had not noticed before as an ordinary student. Regardless of gender, race, ethnic background, etc., everyone always seems to want to fit into the student body. But not everyone seems to notice how the student body works. An athlete, however, has the formation of their respective teams drilled into their memory’s by the time they begin to compete. Unconsciously, they apply this memory to the formation of the student body. If the quarterback is the top of the football team hierarchy, then the athlete could presume that seniors would be the equivalent of a quarterback. If the coach is the leader of the teams, then the principal of a school would be the “coach”.
Sports influence your future self by honing your abilities to detect and to lead. They impact your decision-making; make you open your eyes to the harsh consequences of what you choose to do or not to do.
Editor '18
High school involves creating your future, especially once you are an upperclassman, you don’t really know much about what you future endeavors consist of. Who knows? You can be a good debater in high school, but grow up to become one of Food Network’s stars. If you’re the star quarterback for the high school football team, you’re probably looking or being looked at by colleges. Or if you’re the center cheerleader in your sophomore year, you could graduate early with a cheerleading scholarship. But how much does being apart of a school’s athletics program really impact a person?
According to Unigo, a college admissions website, being involved in a sports team can tie to multiple things in life, whether you use them later on in life or not. When you go to a game, you represent not only your school, but also your community. Say the Great Neck North football team plays against rival school Great Neck South. They represent not only their team, but their entire school as well. So, when the players graduate, people will remember the legacy they left behind, good or bad regardless.
Sports have been known to catch the eyes of not only local or school newspapers, but sometimes even news channels as well. Let’s say the Great Neck North football team were to go undefeated for an entire season. That would make headlines for a community newspaper, but considering the event doesn’t really pertain to anyone outside of Great Neck, there would be no point of covering it on, say, Fox 5 News. If, on the other hand, the football team were to continue this streak through the championships games and eventually make Nationals, that could be intriguing for rival schools, who could use the news to make them stronger. College admissions scouts also scour the sports’ sections of hundreds of newspapers, hoping to find the next shining star.
Unigo emphasizes how sports elevate an athlete’s ability to detect abstract details of their lifestyles that they had not noticed before as an ordinary student. Regardless of gender, race, ethnic background, etc., everyone always seems to want to fit into the student body. But not everyone seems to notice how the student body works. An athlete, however, has the formation of their respective teams drilled into their memory’s by the time they begin to compete. Unconsciously, they apply this memory to the formation of the student body. If the quarterback is the top of the football team hierarchy, then the athlete could presume that seniors would be the equivalent of a quarterback. If the coach is the leader of the teams, then the principal of a school would be the “coach”.
Sports influence your future self by honing your abilities to detect and to lead. They impact your decision-making; make you open your eyes to the harsh consequences of what you choose to do or not to do.