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Soccer was my thing, worked my way up from freshman to B-squad to junior varsity in junior year, but the politics of a new coach etc. I switched to cross country for my senior year. I was usually the sixth man on the JV team, running about 18:30 5K, which was pretty good for it being my only year doing it.
In the spring, my mom is big into tennis and so are some of my friends so I did that my freshman and sophomore years. After two years, I really didn't want to play in the offseason, which was the only way to improve in a sport like that, so I switched to track. Our varsity tennis team is one of the best in the state, state champs the last few years, but playing outside of varsity was just pain.
Our school is the most winning track team in Minnesota history, seven True Team State Championships, four individual-team State Championships, something like 30 conference championships or something. I was a sprinter as a junior, running a 24.4 in the 200 meters and 54.4 in the 400. Neither are great times, but for the first year they were solid. Besides the first meet or two, the True Team State and the Regional meet, I ran in all of the varsity meets. My senior year, our team didn't win any of the championship meets, but I got down to 51.3 in the 400 and did 2:04.4 in the 800. I ended up all-conference in the 4x800 and honorable mention in the 4x400. Our top time would have seeded us fifth in the individual state meet for the 4x4, but you have to win the region, which ours is traditionally the state's best, or else reach a qualifying standard, which is always rediculously hard. We missed out on the standard because our anchor had just run the open 800 less then a half hour before and another guy had run 5 hurdle races in the past two days.
Also, other people haven't mentioned this, but my school was 2000 students, so we were in the big-school division for every sport.
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