I grew up with a mother who, being a toddler of the 50s, had a whole lot of straight up worry round her daughters being athletic or taking part in sports activities. (Each particular person is a thriller, and I’m assuming one thing dangerous occurred to her and that this was a protecting intuition on her half.) I attempted a whole lot of inventive options for attending to be lively whereas rising up. Perhaps my most profitable was that I managed to be on my highschool’s *badminton* crew! For all 4 years!! And we have been good, too! I grew up within the US, the place so few colleges have groups that one among our rival colleges was a feeder for the US Olympic crew! My solely curse is that I’m now too good at badminton to be up for the American yard model, however I don’t have sufficient expertise to maintain up with buddies who grew up in locations the place it’s a giant deal sport.
However! I bear in mind dreaming of carrying a crew uniform. My little ninth grade self needed nothing greater than that ceremony of passage/validation. And also you’d higher imagine I nonetheless have the mesh uniform shorts sitting in a field someplace, twenty years later.
