Overcrowded Teams Force Students To Play Elsewhere
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November 7, 2009 • Patrick Walsh
Filed under Opinion, Sports
As our school is known as an athletic powerhouse, school sports are subsequently quite a large part of our campus pride.
Yet even with the large amount of campus spirit, a large group of students play independent, out of school sports.
“When I played football during freshman year, I liked it but we had so many people that I barely played” said Cory Ziegler, a former football player, junior.
From most points of view, athletes say that it wasn’t a matter of difficulty or dislike; mostly departures came from there being so many people on the teams. Sports such as Football and Wrestling have lengthy rosters. The current roster for freshman football is 89 members, Jr. Varsity has a total of 92, and Varsity has 78.
“Yeah, the team I think is really good and all, but there are a lot of them, I guess that’s why they never look tired.” Said Royce Farnham, Fan, sophomore.
While our school’s success at sports is a much totted asset, many of the outside independent clubs or teams are also well known. Many well stocked with former maverick team members. One example, the club soccer group Storm has an excellent statewide reputation with one their best players Joseph Richardson, a former team member and student on our campus.
Being a student at a successful D1 school has a lot of benefits, we win CIF championships and have great coaches but there are many drawbacks. While our rosters are well stocked, many student athletes find themselves being pushed to play their passion outside of school.
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