SPRING VALLEY SPORTS
Fall, Winter, and Spring
Spring
Valley High School has many sports that are offered here. Cheer leading, soccer
and football are during the fall. Swimming, wrestling and basketball are
offered in the winter and track, baseball, and softball are during spring. In
order to play these sports you have to have a GPA of 2.0 or above. Some of
these sports are popular and some are not. All of these sports are mentally and
physically challenging. All of these sports require year round training and
conditioning. Getting along with everyone and seeing each other as a family on
your team will help you work together and to communicate during an event. These
players and cheerleaders take a lot of time into their practices to make sure
they know what they’re doing and how to make it look good. Going through pain
in these sports is often the way to the pathway to excellence. If you want to
succeed in these sports or life, you have to fight for what you want. Winning
isn’t handed to you, you have to work hard. The sports at Spring
Valley have a lot of fans who believe in them, but the ones who are playing,
doing events, and having competitions have to believe in themselves to.
Cheer leading
requires a lot of strength when you base so it can be steady. You stunt a lot
throughout football games and basketball games. Another thing you need strength
for is tumbling, so your arms don’t get weak. When you do multiple tumbling
passes at the games and in a cheer routine you need to be in good shape so you
don’t get tired. When you’re too tired as you tumble you could mess up and
fall. If you’re not in shape you won’t be able to hold a stunt in the air for a
long period time. Learning a routine for competitions takes time and effort for
the fact that you have to be together with your stuff and it has to look clean.
It can’t be sloppy because if it is you’ll get points taken off. A lot of
people think cheer leading looks easy until they go out and try what we
cheerleaders do, and then they start to understand that it’s not what they
think it is.
Soccer,
this is a competitive sport, the Spring Valley High Schools girls and boy’s
soccer team work hard throughout soccer season and all year round. The soccer
players are consistently moving in their games and practices. They run up and
down the field a lot to try to get the ball. They all have a position they play
in their games, but they switch out so someone else can play. Soccer plays use
shin guards to protect them from getting hurt so they don’t get injured. They
use cleats so they can have more traction on their feet while they run. Being
in shape is important for this sport also because if you’re not in shape you’ll
get tired easily and you’ll get put out of the game because you have no power
left. Soccer has many rules in the games and at their practices; they’re not
allowed to touch the soccer ball unless they are the goalie. They’re allowed to
touch the ball because they have to keep the other team from scoring. Staying
hydrated is the most important thing while you’re playing a game and when
you’re practicing. You don’t want to get dehydrated and pass out, if you’re not
dehydrated that bad you’ll end up starting to feel sick. Nobody wants to see
their teammate get hurt. Soccer isn’t a really noticeable sport here at Spring
Valley, but if you’d go to one of their games maybe you and everyone else would
understand how much work they put into for staying fit.
Football, becoming a professional
football player is a dream of many young men around
the country. While many dream of the opportunity only a few get to make it a
reality. If you're serious about being a football player and think you have
what it takes. The game was developed with particular aims in
mind: specifically, teamwork, discipline and respectability, which defined both
the way the game is organized and played. Football players are required to wear
a lot of padding, shoulder pads and helmets. Mouth guards is one of the big
parts of protect them from getting injured it protects their teeth from getting
knocked out. The game involves a lot of strength and physicality. One man
struggles against another when they say hut, then all of them will try to get
the person carrying the ball. Also at the same time, finesse, agility, and brilliant
strategy are requisites for success and a team lives or dies solely on how well
they work together as a team, as a unit. During the summer they have two-a-day
practices and they usually last for quit awhile. As soon as they kick off for
the game to start the pressures on, it’s up to the boys of how well they play
to see if they can win.
Wrestling takes the most endurance, strength, physical, and
mental toughness out of any sports. If you want to be a potential state placer
or win state then it might as well be required to wrestle and lift year round.
The training is rigorous. You get broken down mentally by sprinting, wrestling
live, circuit training, and lifting. When you can’t keep going on or think of
mental toughness for your wrestling match is six minutes long if the scores
tied. The winner’s determined by who gets the first take-down. If the score’s
still tied then each person goes top and bottom. Then if the score’s still tied
after that then theirs a sudden death ride out, if the bottom man doesn’t get
away in thirty seconds then the top guy wins. If the bottom man wins then he
wins the match. A take-down is established when one person is on top, the others
on bottom, and the person on top has control. This is worth two points and if
the other person gets away they are rewarded one point. When someone holds
someone on their back at more than a 45° for a 2-4 count you’re two points, but
for a five count you’re rewarded three points. If you lock your hands or do an
illegal move the opponent is awarded one point. This can eventually make you
automatically lose the match if done enough. The only other way to give your
opponent a point is if you get called for stalling a few times. The safety gear
they have to wear is head gear and a mouth piece so they don’t get a concussion
and their teeth knocked out.
These are the fall sports; the winter sports are swimming,
wrestling, and basketball. Spring sports are track, baseball and softball. The
sports I talked about in this blog are just fall sports. Thanks for reading! Leave
a comment if you’d like.
By:
J.A.T. & Big Bird
