High school sports may seem like a long time ago (whether you’re 30 or 83), but for some of you, we bet they were some of your favorite times. Are we right? Whether you played football, soccer, basketball, tennis… whatever, high school sports can be wonderful for kids.
Did you play on a sports team in high school? If so, please leave a comment and tell us what you played. Thanks!
The FREE RVtravel.com newsletter is filled with great RV information, advice, and news written by RV experts, delivered right to your inbox. Never any SPAM and we will NEVER sell your information! When you subscribe, you'll get three checklists that every RVer should have as a thank you!
A Permanent Address for RV Freedom — Full-time RVers trust America’s Mailbox for mail forwarding, residency help, and reliable support from the road.
Our most popular articles this week:
Amazon Prime Day is coming soon but…
The deals are already on! Click here and see if what you’ve been wanting or needing is on sale. And if it’s not now, it might be soon!
THE BEST WAY TO SUPPORT US?
Tell other RVers about us! If you love us and our newsletters, chances are other RVers will too! You could tell your campsite neighbors how great we are, you could post a newsletter or story you enjoyed on your Facebook, you could write us a love letter on the campground bulletin board… You get the picture. Spread the word—help us out! THANK YOU!
Please follow our rules for commenting.
..unless you consider the debate team a sport.
Its as much of a sport as some things are!
For me, baseball and ice hockey in hs, ice hockey only in college (unless you count club LaX..
I don’t have the Neanderthal gene in my DNA so I was not and still not interested in sports. Quiet afternoon reading or in the past fishing was the most I was interested in participating in.
Sure…football- bad knees, baseball…bad knees basketball..bad knees/ hip. Loved playng sports in high school, but now I question my giving up my body when I was young and dumb. Played on commercial soft ball league after service. Still didn’t learn. Many dislocated fingers, more hip knee problems. Did I have fun? Yes Enjoyed every minute. Dump but fun. Lol😎
I played the French horn, baritone, and trumpet in the high school concert and marching band. The closest I got to sports was marching on the football field at half-time.
I was in marching band. That’s a sport, right? After all, I got out of having to take P.E., and we competed with other bands. We performed on a sports field and wore uniforms. We had early morning practices, and we started “working out” in hot August before the school year started. So, yes…
I was top person on the Mathletes team two years in a row at Desert HS at Edwards AFB California. We claimed we were exercising our brains so it counted as an athletic event. We competed every month against area schools and usually did not embarass ourselves. That was ’68 and ’69.
👍I was attending DHS from 67-71. My Dad was a jet engine tech on the SR-71 Blackbird at EAFB.
Football (all state center), hockey, baseball.
Until I had an appendicitis attack, it was my freshman year football, never went back on the field.
There were few or no competitive sports for women before Title 9. The closest you could get was in marching band, women’s drill team, flag team or cheer leader. I was a member of Girls Athletic Assocoation and played women’s rules basketball after school. We chose teams from the girls that showed up and played. There was no funding for high school girls before Title 9.
Ha childhood health problems, so although I wanted to, could not.
Navy Brat! 4 high schools in 3 states. No sports.
Not really any sports for females WAYYY back then.
The only female sport in my high school was cheerleading. This was long before Title IX.
I was in high school in the early 70’s. There were no girls sports teams. We had a club called Girls Athlete Association. We would do different sports at our bi-monthly meeting. But my husband played sports in high school. Football, baseball & track & field.
Went to high school in mid 70’s. Small Catholic school in Wisconsin. On the gymnastics team. Had to fundraise ourselves to buy equipment. Use wrestling mats when wrestling team wasn’t using them. Equipment had to be used on the elevated stage. The school worked hard to get rid of us. They succeeded in 4 years. But we had a great football team. The good old days.
I played baseball and basketball in high school. As I got older I wished I had learned to play other sports like tennis, golf and snow skiing. These are sports that can be enjoyed more as an adult and do with your wife and kids.
Yes, football for 3 years.
I qualify my answer of “ yes, I played team sports”— if you accept playing in GAA ( girls athletic association). Girls’ teams were not booked for public competition, did not have budgets to allow travel to other schools, and did not get to play using “boys” rules—basketball “girls” style was ridiculous. We won’t discuss the jumpers we had to wear.
Baseball, Basketball and Track
Baseball ⚾️ and Track 👣
I went to a very small high school in a small town in North Dakota in the late ’60’s and was on the girls track team and softball team. Both teams were good enough to participate in the state championships. (Not that I contributed a heck of a lot to that level of competition.) Great fun though and really good coaches.
Yep; played Football, Basketball, Hockey & Track. Somehow Scholastics made it too!!
Do not know how last made it; but made it thru. Which made my Mom happy!!
Which made my Dad Happy!!
PS: Did get a Few “Stern” words from him every March of every year!! Say “STYLED”
now though.
If only high schools emphasized an actual education over sports. Waste of money and time.
Everyone knows high school jocks who cannot read, write and do math. But they graduate.
Only Track/wrestling. Found by high school I was too small and too slow to play football, which I LOVED! Kept getting hurt. Too short for basketball. We didn’t have baseball.
I did not play on a school team, but I did take up fencing as a serious sport.
Too slow, too short
When I was in high school there were no sports teams for girls, just for boys. I was a scorekeeper and a drill team member. Laws have since been enacted so that girls, too, have a chance at sports. These had their start in the 60’s when women were discriminated against in many ways. Sadly, it seems we are back to that again.
Expect to see an “equal time” poll for those who did the ARTS in HS: Choir, Chorus, Show Choir, Concert Choir, Madrigals, Symphonic Band, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Orchestra, Dance (all it’s many forms), Theatre (straight shows & musicals).
And don’t forget Debate, Speech (several forms) Quiz Bowl, Robotics, Computer, Science Olympiad, and many more. (See Texas UIL for all the things HS students can compete in!)
Sadly, HS culture idolizes “the athlete”, but, really now, other than “entertainment” (and lots of lost bets and high blood pressure) and sports medicine have the sports, done to advance human progress? You’d be surprised at how many scientists are also artists.
In my time-frame and location there were no teams for girls.
Field hockey, left wing … Australia in the early 7o’s 🙂
They didn’t offer “girls” sports in my school except for calisthenics in PE. I tried to take mechanical drafting… they said, “you’re a girl, go take home ec”. I tried to take shop… they said, “you’re a girl, go take home ec”.
Baseball, basketball and football. Graduated with a 3.6 average. I have no idea how I did it but did not have time for much else.
Only one team for girls in my day – cheerleading. 3 years on the team. We bought our own uniforms and parents transported us to away games. Not allowed on bus.
Those were the days, my friend. Wonderful times. Also, did it in college.
Tennis, golf, baseball and basketball were my sports. I played tennis into
my mid-60s. Lately, considering Pickleball.
I was on the golf team, also was on the golf team a two colleges and went on to be a PGA golf professional for 25 years.
Was on the HS cross country team also track and field. What I really enjoyed was that I was responsible for the outcome. Just me and my legs. Miss these days.