Page High School has many different sports that you could participate in this spring. You may be having trouble figuring out which sport you would be best for with your skills.
For the boys you can join the tennis team. The girls tennis happened during the fall. The skills that you would need to have are good hand eye coordination and a knowledge of the scoring system. The scoring system will give you points worth love (0), 15, 30, 40, and then a game. If you tie at 40 you get a deuce where you need to win by 2 points with an ad (advantage) and then you win the game. You must win 6 games to win a set and for varsity tennis you need to win 2 out of 3 sets to win a match. For tennis you will need to buy a racquet and an optional pair of tennis shoes (a pair of running or athletic shoes would also work). This racquet will cost at least $80 for a good quality racquet and the shoes could cost $50+ dollars. Most high school tennis teams also offer a racquet to borrow when you are a part of the team.
If you are a girl interested in a spring sport you could try soccer. Boys were already this fall so only girls can try out. The skills that you will need are good shooting, dribbling, and stamina to be successful in the sport. There is a lot of running for the soccer team especially with midfielders who move all around the field. Some of the other positions are goalie, which can use their hands inside of the goal box and have the least running overall; defence which must be able to defend the goal and must be able to steal the ball from the other team as they move the ball up the field; and the other position not listed is the striker which will spend most of the time on the other side of the field and have the job of being ready for if the ball gets to that side of the field that they can score into the goal. You will need to buy soccer cleats and shin guards for the price of at minimum $30.
The girls golf played last fall but boys are now starting up for their golf season. You will play 18 holes for matches which will take about 4 hours and 15 minutes making it the sport with the most time to commit to at once. You will need to purchase a set of clubs which would cost at minimum $250. Many high school golf teams also provide clubs so that you do not need to buy new ones.
Both boys and girls can play lacrosse this spring. A match takes about an hour and 20 minutes making it a pretty average length sports match. The basic gear will cost a minimum of $200 with some teams providing the gear. You will need a stick, helmet, gloves, pads, and cleats to play the sport. There are several positions being the goalie to defend the goal, attack to score like a soccer striker, midfield to move all across the field, and defence to help defend the goal.
Boys can play baseball this spring. The field is large and is the one that is next to the football field. Girls can play softball this spring on the field on the other side of the bus lot. There are many types of positions for the field players like the pitcher that throws the ball to the batter, the base men which catch the ball to step on the base so that the runners get out, short stop which stands in between bases to add to the people that can get the ball, catcher which acts as a base man for home plate but also catches the pitches that the batter fails to hit, and outfielders that catch and retrieve balls that go far into the field. The position of a batter is the batter which must hit the pitches where they can make the fielders run as far as possible and there is also the runner which is every batter after hitting the ball who runs between the bases as quickly as possible. To score you need to go around all of the bases until you get to home plate. You can also get a home run and get the hitter and everyone around the bases to score a free run around the bases. To get outs so that you can hit again you must get 3 and can get them by causing that hitter to get 3 strikes which are misses to a hit, catching the ball out of the air, tagging the base that a runner is going to, and tagging the runner while they are off of a base. The difference between softball and baseball is that softball uses underhand pitches, a larger ball, and a smaller field. They both share the same rules listed above and the same positions.
The final sport that everyone can do is outdoor track and field. The different field activities are long jump, high jump, pole vault, triple jump, discus throw, javelin throw, shot put, and hammer throw. There are many other running events with varying distances so there is a good distance whether you can run fast for short distances or a steady pace for a long distance. Some of the more different track running sports are hurdles where you run fast while jumping over bars and steeplechase where you jump over and off of a pole into some water and keep running.
