Everybody has been to at least one school sporting event in their lifetime. I want you to go back and remember who and what you saw. Let’s say it was a boys’ basketball game. You probably saw all of your favorite teachers, the principal, all of your peers, all your friends’ parents, and even the administration. Now look back and try to remember a girls’ basketball game, odds are you only saw a few of your peers and the parents of the athletes playing.
York Suburban High School has so many teams that nobody really knows about or acknowledges. Nobody really notices the other sports because that is how it has been for so long. The big sports like basketball and football are really the only teams in our school that are given an ample amount of support.
Think about it, have you ever even been to a boys’ or girls’ tennis match, or even a field hockey game? Most people would answer this question with a no.
Junior Tony Matey said, “I feel like the teams who do the best should get the most support, but that is not the case because the girls basketball team is doing really well and nobody even goes to those games.” He also said that he believes that nobody shows up for girls sports because boys sports like basketball and football are more entertaining.
Junior Kaia Copeland said, “I think that the fact that there is a difference in the student sections is wrong because the girls basketball team was actually winning games and doing well.”
The only way to fixing the problem amongst our schools students supporting each other is coming together. If all of the students were to promise themselves to try and make it to at least one game, competition, or match that every team of our school is involved in, the outcome of people in the student sections is guaranteed to be bigger.
York Suburban student section says, “Cheese!” for the camera at a pajama themed basketball game.