Here’s the thing, I played every sport that was offered in high school, although it was only soccer and basketball I played both from freshman to senior year. But trust me, I know how bad we were. If my memory serves me correct we won less than 10 games in both sports during my illustrious athletic high school career. I immediately came to the conclusion that I sucked at organized sports, there needed to be a new medium, maybe I would fare better at unorganized sports. But no, that was hardly the case. Intramural basketball was clearly my favorite sport at Lee, I only wore Jeremy Lin jerseys, gotta rep the Asian. But just as transparent was the induced stress. Basketball had two leagues, A and B. Any five year old can deduce that A stood for Steph Curry’s and B for Seth Curry’s. Due to my extensive knowledge of where I stand in a skill level, and having the discernment and wisdom from God, I promptly chose B.
Needless to say my team was stacked… with friends! Not one of them played basketball at an organized level. Our starting five consisted of a cheerleader, a lacrosse player, a soccer player, a baseball player, and me, the mediocre at everything player. We played for fun and to be honest all we had was fun. Here comes the pet peeve though, playing Greek Clubs. Greek Clubs are notorious for having the most success at the intramural level, with Upsilon and Epsilon being intramural champs for all sports last year. They are supposed to play at their level, which for the most part is A League. Even if a Club isn’t exceptional at a particular sport, they are still held to a higher standard. Although, this was certainly not the case when it came to our B League tournament in November. 1st round we were thrown into the court with Pi Kappa Pi. Much to everyone’s amazement we got crushed. When all our match-ups had a good half foot on us I knew we were screwed. This was a perfect example of an A level team playing in B-league. Fast forward three months later as we find ourselves playing KYX for our season-playoff game. Prior to that game, one of their players came up to me and offered me a deal, “We’ll let you score 50 if you let us score 100.” Are you kidding me? How insulting. I said that let’s just have fun, it’s intramurals, don’t take it too seriously, if we’re both having fun, then there shouldn’t be a problem. We lost 28-90.
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