patybobady wrote:at my high school, track and cross country are the most respected sports, because they have won consistently for years. cross country has won 23 state titles in 43 years and track has been a powerhouse as well.
My high school is like that- 16 state titles for xc and track since '97. But, track still doesn't get any respect. kids talk about how awesome our bball team is this year (they haven't won districts since 1975... and everyone was surprised when they lost again...?), so I slide in some recognition for track- like that track will have a good chance at another state title this year. Then they bash track saying that "well track is easier" AHH
We had our City-wide track meet on tues, and our local paper STILL hasn't published the results. In my area, we have 3 teams who won state in their classifications last year, and one that was runner-up. But, apparently bball teams from the 1970s and offseason football articles are more newsworthy. IT'S NOT EVEN FOOTBALL SEASON!? . The paper consistently ignores anything that's not bball, baseball, softball, soccer, or football. Not to play the pity-me card, but I won a fairly large meet down at UF, and I broke the meet record and county records. One of my best friends who got second got a whole page spread about the meet, and i'm happy that she got that too, she deserves it. Actually her paper (a good 3 hours away) does a better job about reporting stuff about my pv'ing than my local paper... that's just shameful lol.
Ok, I'll stop whining now, sorry for the long post.