Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
 

I spoke to my 11 year old sister today on the phone, (she lives in Australia, I live a long, long way away). She told me that she got picked first for netball today. I was like;

"What, they nominated two kids to be captain and then you all stood in a line and got picked one by one?"

"Yep. And I got picked first!"

"That's great," I said, but inside I was seething. I never got picked first, if anything I was the last pick. Which is funny because after school I was the only one of my class to make a living from sport.

I had assumed that the school system would have phased this sort of stuff out by now. If anything is designed to make kids feel like a piece of [censored] it's watching all the other kids being picked, desperately hoping that the little bastard who is captain is going to pick you, until finally you're picked because there's nobody else left.

And then you play like crap and confirm why you're last pick.

So were you guys first or last pick? And were any of you the captains? Oh man, to be the captain and GET TO PICK! That was a dream.....

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I was almost always the captain, don't know why. Guess the gym teachers loved me.
I was usually picked among the first, I don't think I was ever picked first though. Good enough to get picked first, not popular enough to get picked first.

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Soccer - First
Baseball/Softball, Football - Middle
Basketball - Last

I'm pretty athletic, but have always sucked at basketball. It didn't help that I didn't hit my major growth spurt until high school (I'm now 5'9").

I'm also surprised they still do things like this at school.

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Somewhere in the middle usually, but it depended on the sport.

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Always last. I would be picked last today. As able-bodied young men go, I must be in the bottom tenth in terms of athletic gifts, which makes the fact that I am a serious amateur athlete particularly odd.

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Never the captain, and it always depended on the sport. Usually first for baseball/softball and 2nd or 3rd in basketball (tall and slow). Middle of the pack in most other sports.

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Last, last, last and last.

The only thing that bothered me was having to play sport in the first place - would much rather have been reading.

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i was usually the first white kid picked

Re: Were you picked first or last for the sports team?
 

almost always picked last except senior year when I wasn't athletically superior but at least showed effort in gym class. That year I got picked above people who had no interest.

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Kickball - First pick or captain
Dodge ball - First pick or captain
Basketball - Early/medium Pick
Soccer - Medium Pick
Football - Medium/Late Pick
Baseball - Late/Last Pick

Obviously I should join that professional dodgeball league...

Ray