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SPORTS PANEL

With the end of the winter sports season just around the corner, which spring/summer

sports are you most excited about participating in?

Name: Anson Corput Name: Courtney St. Onge
Grade: 8 Grade: 8
School: Ecole Seondaire Le Relais School: Iona Academy
Answer Answer
I equally enjoy playing team sports and individual I play a lot more team sports than individual sports,
sports. Both kinds of sports teach you and test your but I like them both equally. The best part of both
skills. I play several team sports such as hockey, types of sports is the time you get to hang out with
volleyball, soccer, and badminton. These sports require
me to work with my teammates on the common goal of friends. In team sports, there are many players on
a team and so there is always someone to chat and
winning and having fun. When on a team, I get to play
with my friends and meet new friends. As a hockey player joke with. For individual sports, you compete alone
for the Char-Lan Rebels, I have learned to take instructions but most of your training is with a small group or at
from my coaches and teammates, which help me to push least with a coach and so you are never really alone. I
myself a little harder every game. In an individual sport, the like this because you can create very close friendships with
only person pushing me to do better is myself. I’ve been playing golf people who can be part of your life long after you stop playing that
since I was 6 years old. As a junior member of the Glengarry Golf and Country Club, sport. When it comes to success, a team’s success depends on many players doing
I take lessons with a golf instructor. I have learned many tips and tricks to improve my their best. In team sports it’s nice that there is always someone to cover for you
game, however it’s up to me to practice to better my game since it’s me who is hitting the if you make a mistake. When playing individual sports, you can’t rely on anyone
ball and understanding my shot. Golf is very challenging and a frustrating sport but it’s
still fun. When I hit a good ball, it’s very satisfying because I did it myself. Even though but yourself. Fun is the best part of any sport. There are so many different team
golf is an individual sport, you do get to play along side others. I enjoy playing with my or individual sports out there… you just need to keep trying new ones until you
Dad and friends. find the one you love!

Name: Halley McDonald Name: Liam Spence
Grade: 4 Grade: 9
School: Iona Academy School: Char-Lan DHS
Answer Answer
My sport is swimming. I’ve been swimming I prefer playing sports on a team rather than
with the Cornwall Sea Lions for the last 3 playing individual sports. When you play on a
years. Swimming is an individual sport. I team, you win as a team and lose as a team. This
like individual sports because you don’t is important because when you lose, everyone
have to rely on anyone else for your results. shares the loss together. When you are playing
Swimming gives you the chance to be with an individual sport and you lose, you might feel
really badly because you carry the weight of the
others because you practice with a swim loss on your own. I also prefer team sports because
team. I have lots of fun being with my friends at you get to know your teammates as the season progresses,
practice. At competitions, we go as a team, but we swim for and you start to work better together and so you are motivated because you
ourselves, so we get a chance to beat our personal best times and set don’t want to let your teammates down. In an individual sport, there is no
new goals. Sometimes I get to be part of a relay, and that’s when you team to get to know or motivate you. Also, when you play an individual sport,
swim as part of a team. So really, I get to experience both worlds as a everybody that is watching is watching only you. That’s a lot of pressure. In
swimmer, but I prefer to swim for myself. a team sport, the people watching are watching everyone that is playing and
not just you.

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