A question or two for the home team:
Did anyone attend a college (unlikely, given the audience, but still...) or a high school that mandated all students play a sport? Military academies come to mind, but I know some high schools have this requirement, too. Some caveats:
The requirement has to have been participation in an organized, competitive sport, for all terms. This eliminates PE, which is what I had throughout high school, as did my classmates who were varsity athletes. It also eliminates rock climbing, etc., which might be on the cusp of being organized sports, but aren't (yet).It is not necessarily limited to interscholastic competition only, or varsity / JV only.We exclude anyone who did something, but of their own accord.We exclude anyone who was in a semi-professional sporting program (e.g., IMG Academies, a boarding school post-grad, etc.)
If you did - or if you know anybody who did - what do you / they think about it?
Did anyone attend a college (unlikely, given the audience, but still...) or a high school that mandated all students play a sport? Military academies come to mind, but I know some high schools have this requirement, too. Some caveats:
The requirement has to have been participation in an organized, competitive sport, for all terms. This eliminates PE, which is what I had throughout high school, as did my classmates who were varsity athletes. It also eliminates rock climbing, etc., which might be on the cusp of being organized sports, but aren't (yet).It is not necessarily limited to interscholastic competition only, or varsity / JV only.We exclude anyone who did something, but of their own accord.We exclude anyone who was in a semi-professional sporting program (e.g., IMG Academies, a boarding school post-grad, etc.)
If you did - or if you know anybody who did - what do you / they think about it?