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Sophomore Marie Young — cross country and track

Question: What’s your favorite thing about cross country?

Answer: “Probably all the people I run with. I like all the courses and being outside. You get to run through a variety of places, not just a track. Pretty much the people are the best part.”

Q: What’s your favorite thing about track?

A: “It has more individual aspects, so I get to really focus on myself and not really worry so much about how I’m going to affect the team. I get to focus on my times and getting them to go down.”

Q: How do the two sports differ?

A: “Cross country has a little bit longer races, and you get to run on grass or gravel or dirt — you go through the woods or fields. You get more nature in your runs. But on the track, you are just running in circles. It’s a lot more speed-based, too.”

Q: Do you prefer one sport over the other? Why?

A: “I like cross country a lot better because it has the whole team-mentality, whereas track is very individual. The track gets boring because you are just running in loops.”

Q: Does participating in one sport help you excel in the other?

A: “I think track helps me in cross country because I get a solid base for speed. It also helps my confidence since I get to focus on myself in track. That helps me build confidence as a runner which then transfers into cross country.”

Q: How are the activities you do in each sport
similar?

A: “The practices are pretty much the same — the people are the same. We do all the same routes.”

Junior Tanner Fox — football and baseball

Question: What’s your favorite thing about football?

Answer: “Probably how much of a team game it is. It’s a lot of fun to go out on Friday nights and play.”

Q: What’s your favorite thing about baseball?

A: “I would say probably how hard it is. People can’t just go out and play it and not practice. You have to work really hard at it.”

Q: How do the two sports differ?

A: “In baseball, you can get away with having a few really good players, but in football, every play matters. If one person messed up, then the whole team pays for it.”

Q: Do you prefer one sport over the other? Why?

A: “Baseball because I’ve played that probably for the longest, and that’s the one I’m playing in college.”

Q: Does participating in one sport help you excel in the other?

A: “Both sports have a lot of speed involved, and they’re pretty fast games.”

Q: How are the activities you do in each sport similar?

A: “They both take a lot of time. You have to be pretty committed to do both of them.”

Junior Maddie Newell — basketball and soccer

Question: What’s your favorite thing about basketball?

Answer: “I really love all of the girls on the team. It’s cool that we get to play every team twice, so if we don’t do so [well] the first time, we get to have a second chance.”

Q: What’s your favorite thing about soccer?

A: “Soccer is more laid-back. So, I go from basketball, which is pretty intense, to more of a sport for fun.”

Q: How do the two sports differ?

A: “Basketball season is a lot longer, and we play every team twice, whereas soccer we play every team once, and it’s much shorter.”

Q: Do you prefer one sport over the other? Why?

A: “I like basketball better because I’ve been playing it longer, and I’ve dedicated more time throughout my childhood to basketball.”

Q: Does participating in one sport help you excel in the other?

A: “One of my factors for continuing to play soccer is that it helps keep my conditioning up. Even though basketball is more running short sprints, whereas soccer is continuous long distance, soccer does help with conditioning.”

Q: How are the activities you do in each sport similar?

A: “We practice every day after school, and JV and varsity practice together and scrimmage.”