Week Seven: MHS Sports

MHS has an amazing sporting department. Many of my students play sports ranging from soccer to lacrosse and to football. One of my students even has a full ride scholarship to WVU with football. So nevertheless there was a variety of reasons for me to go to some of MHS’s sporting events. The first one I went to was a girls soccer game  because my girls had been asking me to come and watch them since I played (aka sat on the bench) soccer in high school.  

I did know that I had a lot of football players in my classes because they are always wearing their jerseys or leaving class early to go to the games. But it was really interesting to go and see just how different MHS’s games are compared to my high school’s football games. The pregame at MHS revolves around the lead majorettes and not the actual full band, which is very surprising for me coming from a huge band school as well. It was nice to see all of my students that were in the band as well though. I also enjoyed seeing what positions my students played on the football field, I think by seeing my students in this different setting it allows me to get to know them better as a full rounded person instead of just someone in my classroom. 

It was really nice to see just how many of my girls actually were on the team! I knew almost all of them and I didn’t even know that they were in soccer. It was nice to see them in a setting outside of the classroom as well especially since it is a sport that I can actually follow.