For school, I play soccer and tennis. I did baseball until eighth grade, and then I switched to softball in school. 

The most impactful was probably baseball until I switched to softball, because it was definitely a different experience, playing not just with girls but also guys. My favorite is soccer or tennis. I can’t really decide, as I play soccer more than I play tennis and they’re different sports because one’s a team sport and one’s individual.

I started most of my sports when I was four. My parents signed me up for a bunch of different sports to see which ones I liked, and I couldn’t really decide which one was my favorite, so I just continued with three of them. My dad always thought that it was better that you play different sports so you’re more well rounded. Then you are working on different parts of your body, not just one part.

Balancing sports and schoolwork is hard, because of a lot of my practices. I have multiple practices, like soccer practice is after tennis practice. So I get home at around nine and I also sleep super early. So it’s definitely hard, especially with studying and doing schoolwork. Sometimes I’d skip practices just to do homework. 

Time management and not procrastinating is something that I’ve learned a lot about from doing sports. If I procrastinate on any work I’m doomed. I try to balance my time because sometimes school is more important depending on the day, but then sometimes I’ll have to go to a different practice because it’s more important, for example we have a game coming up, or something else that I have to work on.

A pro of doing sports is definitely that you meet a lot of new people. Especially last year, I met a lot of people that I definitely would not have met if I didn’t do sports. A con is the workload that you get from especially taking harder classes. It’s a lot harder to manage, and it’s hard to keep doing sports. School definitely gets harder over the years, but I think it’s the people and all the friends that I’ve made that keeps me motivated.