Our Misguided Obsession with Interscholastic Sports: a Provocation
It was thirteen years ago, in March, and I was playing the last game of my first and only year as a member of the Huntsville Havoc, a minor professional ice hockey team based in northern Alabama. I had enjoyed a successful college career, and I was proud to earn money as an athlete, living […]
Lessons from a Lacrosse Team
For nearly as many years that I taught Social Studies at Rutland High School, I also coached the girls’ lacrosse team. The teams over these six years had girls from all of the sending towns to Rutland High School, from all socio-economic strata, and from many different family constellations. Each year, the players came together […]