Best Sports Ever SOL 3/2/14

What is the best sport ever? When I asked this question to myself, my first thought was swimming. I'm a swimmer, and I think that swimming is a great sport. It tests your endurance, physical and mental toughness, and strength. It also builds an amazing sense of community and develops a different skill set then you would normally have. Swimmers need to be strong, tough, and confident in order to swim, and it's a super fun to achiev
e goals that you've set at the beginning of the season. It's a super cool sport.

But then I think of Basketball. This is the other sport that I play, and while I may not be as good at it as swimming, I think that I picked it up pretty quickly. The thing that I love about Basketball is that it's such a great team sport, and more of a contact sport then swimming. You're on a team and you have to be confident in your teammates, as well as not hog the ball the whole entire time. It's also more strategic, there are plays and strategies used differently then in Swimming.

And then of course there's soccer, which is the most popular sport in the world. It's probably just as athletic as Basketball but in a different way. People run across a huge field in a game that can go on for hours just for a few goals. Soccer is fun because it's a team sport too. I can definitely see why people like soccer so much, even if I don't do it the same amount that I swim (or really competitively at all. I play on the Logan team but that doesn't really count).

There are also team sports like Baseball and Football. Football needs a lot of strength and strategy, where in my limited experience Baseball is more about skills. Also Hockey, which combines learning a skill set that you wouldn't normally have, like swimming, as I've said before, or in this case skating, with a lot of strength. Also sports like Volleyball, which has less running but more concentration.

Mostly I think that it's just cool that people play sports. These sports range from Swimming to Volleyball to Soccer and different people like different ones depending on their personality. I don't think that there's one perfect sport but different ones for different people. However, it's cool that we all play them, showing that everyone likes the general idea of a sport-to be competitive, make friends, and to have fun.

So, I want your opinion. Which sport is the best, which ones do you play, and why are they the best? Comment your answer and also vote on my poll to the side ->. Thanks for reading everyone!