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Date Posted: 20:47:19 09/07/03 Sun
Author: Celia Jones
Subject: My Sporting Biography

Hi everyone. My name is Celia Jones, I am a senior Kinesiology major. I was born and lived in Jamaica until I was seven years old, and I didn't really have a lot of exposure to sports there. My dad liked to watch cricket on television, but it was never really a big thing in my family to be involved in sports. I never really had an interest in playing sports when I was younger, because I never saw any sports that seemed fun enough to play. In high school, the only sport that interested me was Cheerleading, and I became a cheerleader in the 10th grade, and loved it. I was on varsity for the rest of my high school years. In my 11th grade year, I tried softball, but that was my only year playing....it just didn't really keep my interest. I loved to cheer, which to a lot of people wasn't even considered a sport, but I had to stop after high school. When I got to college, I went to a few football games to check out the cheerleaders, but I was turned off from college cheering because it all of a sudden didn't seem like it was for fun anymore. In college, sports seem to be more like "Work" than "Fun". In most sports, it seems like it is important to do well so that the sport can continue to be funded or so that the college can uphold a certain record about it's athletics department. It seems like athletes are working to eventually be able to make a living at the sport, (which there is nothing wrong with), it's just that the only sporting experience I have ever had was to have fun when playing, and college sports just doesn't seem to have that for me. So now, I am not involved in any sports, though I enjoy WATCHING football games, and cheerleading competitions on ESPN.

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