If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
We should teach kids, whether you're on the varsity team or not, that movement is a great thing in your life.
I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.
If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
I wasn't going to play on defense in college.
I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
I played varsity in high school as a 9th grader. I came off the bench during the first game of the season and had 25 points. Well, I became a starter after that and in the second game I scored 53 points.
