Sports better now or then?
For a lot of people middle school sports are all about having fun and having something to do after school. So, imagine having the chance to go back in time to the good old middle school years to play sports. Would you?
Marcus Goines, 11, explains that “I like high school more because the environment is better and it’s more competitive. I wouldn’t go back because the competition level was lame.”
Junior soccer player Beatrice Ebel agrees. “I like high school sports more because there was more hype around it.”
Senior Izaac Mbongo shared that he likes high school sports more. “I say high school because I got more time to develop my craft in that sport and It’s more fun.”
Though he admits, “I would go back to 6th grade, so I wouldn’t be fat and still be really good at basketball.”
Junior Carlos Lezama-Miles said he likes high school more. “It isn’t necessarily because of the sport but because of the relationships I’ve made and the family I’ve built,” he said.
That being said, he would go back to middle school because “…I lost my main/best year of middle school track due to covid.” Lezama-Miles is sure that if he had been able to participate that season, he would have made it to state.
Junior Seth Pierson explains that he likes sport more now because “it’s more interactive, prepares me more for the future, [and] the coaches give you ground here. And I wouldn’t [go back] because it’s not the same.”
Urbana High School is filled with hundreds of athletes, new and old. The majority of these athletes said they liked playing high school sports over middle school sports.
Their high school experience was more fun and the connections that were built will surely last well into the future.
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