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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Hi, I'm Elle. I'm based in Auckland, New Zealand. I'm the mother of two young adults, the wife of an entrepreneurial gamer and the Queen of Unfinished Projects. This blog will contain poems, short stories, possibly photos and book reviews if you're lucky, and my thoughts on a variety of topics. Hope you enjoy it. |
Have you ever played a sport? Were you any good? What did you like about it? Why did you stop playing (if you did)? ~ "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  In primary school (like virtually every other girl in New Zealand) I played netball for my school. My eyesight is shit. It's worse now than it was then, but it was still shit even then. I had to wear a sports band to hold my glasses on my face (I didn't get contacts until I was at high school). Sooooo cool. Not.  I wasn't bad at goal shooting, but I was pretty shit at catching and throwing the ball, so I used to play defence or goal shoot. I'm short though, so I was never going to be especially good at netball. Not only are all netballers usually taller than average (in much the same way that basketballers are), defence players are usually even more so. I did enjoy it, but because I wasn't particularly good, I didn't bother joining a new team when I went to high school. Both my sisters played netball right through high school and even after. I'm pretty sure there are no actual photos of me playing netball, whereas there are definitely photos of both of them playing.Actually, now that I think about it, there may be no photos of me playing sport full stop. That's so weird. Mum came to all my netball games when I was in primary school, because we had to drive to get to the courts at Wellsford where the games were played. But the photos of my sisters are from later, and I don't think Mum ever came to any of my high school or later games (in other sports) because she was working or... whatever. Huh. In high school, I joined both the girls cricket and soccer teams. My high school only had one of each because it was a small high school. Although, I assure you that it had multiple rugby and netball teams. Rugby was never my thing. I'm not into contact sports. So yeah, I was on my high school's First XI cricket team AND the First XI soccer team.  Yeah, I was totally cool.  I didn't mind cricket, but it wasn't a passion for me. It was a passion for heyxie  who was my best friend at high school, and that's why I played it. We got to go and see some professional games. I remember watching one which I think was Valentine's Day 2014 at Eden Park. New Zealand versus Australia maybe? Maybe New Zealand versus South Africa. I dunno. I have photos from the game somewhere. Chelsea was majorly into bowler Gavin Larsen , which is a whole other story. She met him multiple times, and he sent her birthday cards for her 21st and 40th. I wasn't quite as mental about any of them as she was about Gavin, but I though Adam Parore was quite cute. I think I only played cricket for two years. And I can't remember how much of a cross-over there was between the cricket and the soccer (did we play both for those two years or start the soccer after we finished with cricket?). Chelsea would remember. Then I was all about the soccer. I was better at soccer than I was at cricket, which isn't saying much actually. I played defence, so my main job was to get in the way of other people trying to score goals. That's actually pretty straight forward, and I could do that. I didn't have to have fancy footwork or ball skills, I just had to get in their way to make them work to go around me to get to the goal, and that gave others opportunities to do more impressive things like steal the ball or whatever. So although I wasn't particularly any good, I did make a difference, so I felt good about playing. When I changed high schools in my last year, I joined the girl's First XI soccer team at my new high school, and we did quite well. We didn't get into the regional finals, but we didn't embarrass ourselves either. It's probably worth noting that I had more success on the debating teams of both high schools than I ever did on the sports field.  When I moved out of home, I was living with Chelsea and her sister, who were both mad about sports. I ended up playing on the co-ed church soccer team with them. I played right up until I got pregnant with Jayden, and by that time Steve was playing too. He kept playing for a while after I stopped. I have photos of him playing that I took when I was on the sidelines with baby Jayden I think. I never went back to sports after Jayden was born. Never had the time or inclination (or fitness levels). I did start a tramping club at one company I worked for, and I made it my mission to do 12 tramps (or bush walks) in 12 months, which I did. Bush walking or tramping was the closest I've been to sports since I had Jayden, who is 18 years old now. |
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