Wrestling and WVB. BTN has piqued my interest, never realized there is so much strategy. Was always a football/basketball guy but the intensity of Wrestling and WVB has me on the edge of my lounger rooting. I'm sure top quality coaching helps. Still haven't adapted to Ice Hockey, possibly because Slap Shot is my favorite movie (just kidding).
Sports I never watched before PSU
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For me it's wrestling, gymnastics, and volleyball. I got hooked on all three at Penn State and had never seen any of them played competitively before. I went to Pittsburgh city schools, which did not have wrestling. I have had Penn State season wrestling tickets for about forty years. I love the attitude Cael has developed. They never stop attacking.
I'd never seen a field hockey match until I shot a game for PSU--ditto lacrosse (and swimming) in the 2000s. While, like most folks my age, I'd watched and enjoyed gymnastics due to the 1972 Olympics and Olga Korbut, I'd never actually been to a match before coming to PSU in 1976--and I was hooked. Rec Hall was the place to be in my time at State as I think they (usually double dual meets with both the men and women) drew better than men's basketball.
The one I've still never done, oddly enough, given that one of my best friends was a assistant collegiate coach in the sport, is fencing (he also was a competitor as was one of my old roomies). But the fencing SID wasn't interested in me shooting for them when the championship was here in Columbus.
The one I've still never done, oddly enough, given that one of my best friends was a assistant collegiate coach in the sport, is fencing (he also was a competitor as was one of my old roomies). But the fencing SID wasn't interested in me shooting for them when the championship was here in Columbus.
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I fell in love with Women's Volleyball when I was a student (and we had some really, really good teams) in 93-97. Some of my favorite players were Zeynep Ton, Terri Zemaitis, and Christy Cochran. Have had dozens of favorites since then. The WVB season and the BTN's support of it while it parallels football season is great. B1G hockey is starting to get there for me too. Need a few more teams though...
I never did either--excepting maybe the Globetrotters and I did go see the Sixers once (and that in their 9-73 season--they lost, but in OT). But there was a guy on our floor from Indiana who insisted we had to go to basketball games, so a bunch of us would regularly go as a group.
i can't even imagine how many different types of PSU sporting events I've been to - - - - many (most?) of which I had never attended prior to coming to PSU - - - including some "club" sports
Several of them - volleyball, soccer (both men's and women's for each) and wrestling have become - for me - just as interesting and enjoyable as football
I've found that I can at least have a passing interest in all of them - - - except field hockey
There must be some aficionados out there (though when PSU plays here at UP you can usually count the fans with your fingers and toes )........ But, even though I've tried, I cannot get past the point of thinking that's the dumbest - and least athletic - game ever invented
I just want to hand those girls a longer stick - so they don't have to run around like a bunch of coal miners coming out of the mine after a double shift. That - in and of itself - just makes the sport look ridiculous........ And the rules of play? Jiminy.
Several of them - volleyball, soccer (both men's and women's for each) and wrestling have become - for me - just as interesting and enjoyable as football
I've found that I can at least have a passing interest in all of them - - - except field hockey
There must be some aficionados out there (though when PSU plays here at UP you can usually count the fans with your fingers and toes
)........ But, even though I've tried, I cannot get past the point of thinking that's the dumbest - and least athletic - game ever inventedI just want to hand those girls a longer stick - so they don't have to run around like a bunch of coal miners coming out of the mine after a double shift. That - in and of itself - just makes the sport look ridiculous........ And the rules of play? Jiminy.
Does anybody remember taking a 5 week (half of a term) Physical Ed course called "Sport Lecture". I thought that it was required but I could be wrong.
Each class had a different sport's coach discussing the sport, rules, scoring, etc.
Memorable teachers were Bill Koll for wrestling and Gene Whetstone for men's gymnastics. I think I took this spring term of 1968.
There was no football lecture IIRC, guess we knew everything.
Each class had a different sport's coach discussing the sport, rules, scoring, etc.
Memorable teachers were Bill Koll for wrestling and Gene Whetstone for men's gymnastics. I think I took this spring term of 1968.
There was no football lecture IIRC, guess we knew everything.
