Question re: high school sports

[halfdutch]

OK, folks! Help me out! I'm the least knowledgeable person about sports ever. But here I'm *trying* to write something (which you might be able to guess easily enough) where I want to casually mention track vs. football schedules and whether they overlap. Do they? Did they at your school? And did your school have a weight room? Because foxxcub's did and

Comments

[guineverekay]

Ooh, I have an image of sweaty Sawyer in football gear {drool}

Best I can remember at my high school, Track was mostly a spring sport whereas Football was early fall and well into winter. My school did have a weight room for the football team, I don't think anyone else was allowed to use it.

Hope this helps :)

[halfdutch]

:-D Ooh, I'm afraid I'll be disappointing you there. Maybe the next fic, LOL.

That's what it seems like, re the schedules, and that the weight rooms, if there, were not for everyone. Thanks for weighing in!

[eponine119]

I think track is spring and football is fall, but I am not sporty so I don't know.

One high school I went to had a weight room. The other one I don't think did, or if they did, only the athletes were allowed to use it.

[halfdutch]

That's pretty much what I thought too but foxxcub was telling me the football players started training in spring and I wasn't sure about that. Anyway, it's a minor point in the fic and I kind of ended up writing around it.

If there was a weight room at my school, I certainly didn't use it, not being any kind of athlete! ;-D

[filmgeekchic]

In high school our football team played in the fall and track ran in the spring. I'm pretty sure.

I think some schools have fall and spring track though.

My school had a weight room. Most do, I believe.

Hope that helped!

[halfdutch]

Yes, that does help. Thanks! I really can't recall a weight room at my school but maybe they added after I left? ;-D

[crystalkirk]

The sport schedule for boys at my school was: Football in the fall (Aug-Oct). Basketball in the winter (Nov-Feb). Track and Baseball were both overlapping in the spring (Mar-May). You could do both of those, if you wanted to, but you were spread pretty thin when it came to practices.

And yep, we had a weight room at our school too. I was an independent structure, behind the gym. You needed a key to get inside, and you could get one if were a regular, trustworthy, lifter. And I know the weight "team" or whatever they were went to a few meets for it when I was younger, but that didn't occur when I was actually in HS. By that time, it was just used to bulk up the athletes for the other sports and/or PE classes. Heh.

[halfdutch]

So the weight room was kind of exclusive, huh? Hmmm. Veddy interesting. Thanks!

[crystalkirk]

Very exclusive. The boys mainly went late at night, so they'd be alone in there, for all the various reasons one would want to be alone in weight room. And, lmfao, in case you're doing with these facts what I think you might be doing, heh, this might be a fun and useful tidbit: Every wall in the the building was lined with floor-to-ceiling mirrors. *snerk*

Make of that what you will, hee! ;)

[halfdutch]

Ooh, that is a lovely tidbit! But I hope I haven't gotten your hopes up for weight room pr0n! Maybe the next fic? ;-D

[lillyjk]

*has no clue but is very intrigued by young sweaty Sawyer in the lockerroom in nothing but a towel*

[lillyjk]

oh, and my school did have a weight room. I went to a tiny school, so there was only one and only people on the school teams could use it. I played basketball and I remember fondly pretending to work out while watching sweaty boys lift large amounts of weight and grunt.

[halfdutch]

Tee hee. I briefly joined a gym during high school and working out oh so lightly but I really don't recall there being weights at my school!