Growing up I was interested in team sports. I was always the biggest girl on my team, and I didn’t really fit in with all of the other girls. They were all smaller than me and I felt out of place. I played soccer and basketball, and continued until seventh grade when I suffered a knee injury and had to put a pause on the sport I loved at the time. My rehab went well, and I tried out for the AAU travel basketball team as soon as I was cleared Heartbreak quickly followed when the coach called my parents and told them that I didn’t make the team.
After going through a Winter with nothing to do, my dad took me to my first rugby game. He had learned about the sport through his chiropractor, and thought that it would be a good thing for me to go out and watch a game. I …show more content…
I walked into the indoor sports complex where the first practice was, shaking with nerves. I sat in the corner by myself, waiting for the practice to start and to get it over with. A very bubbly girl came up to me and introduced herself. She was so happy and excited that I was new and I was playing the sport that SHE loved. That’s when I started to realized that rugby wasn’t like other sports. I went through with the practice and had a blast with all of the girls. I play rugby for the team work and sportsmanship. I fell in love with a sport that doesn’t consist of one body type like soccer or basketball. You can look at a rugby team and you see girls that are tall, short, thin, stout, muscular and lean, all on one team. And each team is a family. Everybody is there for everybody else. Going into this sport, you don’t just gain teammates, you gain sisters or brothers. You make friendships that will last forever, not only on your team. I fell in love with the culture behind the sport. The only sport that you sit down with the team you were just trying to beat, and eat with them. You socialize with teams across the country. Rugby has impacted my life drastically, and it’s also taught me some