None.
Well, basically none.
I did do gymnastics for a number of years, but when my sister and I got to the point where the next step was to join a team and go to meets, we decided to quit rather than make that commitment.
Other than that, I did no formal sports as a kid.
However, my family was very active, so it’s not like I was a couch potato. I biked, canoed, skied, hiked, and swam with my family, and because of my knee issues, I also did PT exercises for a long time.
There are only so many extra-curricular activities you can do before something starts to suffer, and I chose music over organized sports. I practiced Chopin instead of going to sports practice.
And in the end, that worked out well for me because my musical skills have proved so useful in my adult life. I taught piano lessons for almost 20 years, and I’ve also played for weddings, funerals, and church services.
For me, this was definitely a good choice, and looking back, I have no regrets.
Organized sports – none. There were next to no sports open to females when I was in school. They finally started tennis (which I don’t like) for girls when I was a junior or senior in high school, and later, track, after I was out of high school. It was so frustrating. Now they have a lot more, but back in the dark ages when I was in school, nope.
Soooo many. When I was young, soccer, baseball (actual baseball when they let me play with the boys–when I got old enough I was required to play softball, I quit), ballet, tap dancing, and Hawaiian dancing. In middle school and high school, mostly soccer, although I also did track one year–shot put and discus mostly. And then I also played raquetball a lot with my family, and did it in the intramural program in college.
And then I was burned out on organized activities forevermore. (Only kind of kidding.)
Field hockey in high school. It is sort of embarrassing to admit this, but I liked being able to thwack opponents with my stick. Not unlike my training to be a lawyer.
Volleyball in college. I am much taller than most women, especially back then you seldom saw a female that topped 6 feet, so I was a real asset to the team. I met one of my boyfriends that way—he came up to me after a game and asked me out, saying he was tired of having to bend over to kiss a woman. He was 6’6″.
Nothing until high school when I played volleyball.
I played basketball for our 4-H club and raised/showed horses and help novice riders and their horses.
Some basketball and volleyball in middle school but only because I went to a small Christian school and all the girls were on the team. I wasn’t very good. Then in high school a teacher wanted to start up a badminton team and begged a few of us to play, so I did. It ended up being really fun and I was actually quite good!
A lot! Softball and basketball when I was little. Middle school was basketball, softball, volleyball, and track. High school was cross country, volleyball, and softball. My husband and I met through volleyball, so it certainly paid off. 😁
Also like you: None.
Saying that, my mum took me swimming every Friday evening throughout my childhood. Certainly from like, 5-15 anyway.
In the school holidays, I’d go to a once-a-week “Run Around” afternoon, put on by my local sports centre. It was just a whole load of kids playing different games. I remember loving it, but always leaving feeling desperately thirsty, because it never occurred to either myself, or my parents, to send me along with a bottle of water.
I feel like kids having their own water bottles just wasn’t a thing in the childhoods of British kids in the 90s. At school we got a drink with our lunches, and their were water fountains round the school, but there was never constant access to drinks like kids have in schools now.
None – there were no sports available when I was in school until I was a senior in high school, when a girl’s track team was formed – no announced tryouts, just girls picked by the PE teachers from current PE classes.
In college, when I was a senior, I was asked to join the girl’s tennis team, but my schedule was sick that I couldn’t make the practices. At least I was asked!!!
Such, not sick. Good grief!