Gyms, and the Seasons of Sports

November 15, 2007 Chrissy

Gymnasiums are associated as being a place of intense physical activity. Gyms are used as a place of exercise and high mobility. In schools, gyms are used to promote health within the student body. However, gyms hold more than just difficult aerobic workouts and dodgeball, they are the main centers of indoor sport competitions.

Coming from a three-roomed school, we were denied the luxury of having a gym to practice our sports. For the students, the importance of a gym was high up on the list of desired items. (not that a $250, 000 gym is considered a random item.) Every year the students would hope that the school board has made room in the budget for a gym. Every year, however the students were disappointed in learing that they would have to practice their sports indoor.

So, every year the elementary and junior high students would practice for volleyball and basketball outside in the sunshine weather. It was not always sunshine like weather outside, especially when November and December roled around. All of the students were prepared however. They came with their mittens, snowpants, hats, and scarfs in the snow to play their sport on the parking lot blacktop. These kids have pretty great dedication though.

Even in a high school like Campbellsport High School, students show how much dedication they have for their imparticular sport, but now they have gyms to use as a benefit. For many students, they participate in sports all year round. They go from volleyball to basketball to softball in a given year, and every year the sport changes, but the gym never does. The gym instead has seasons within it, just like the weather, there are fall sports, winter sports, and even the beginning of spring sports all take place in the same place: the gymnasiums. Just like the weather, seasons of sports come and go but the experiences that take place at that certain time in the gyms are what matters.