Living Double Lives: Athletes take on two sports

Many students play more than one sport during any given sports season. Sophomore Kara Lee and junior Megan Webb tussle with time management as they play multiple sports. Having played tennis and danced for over seven years, she decided to play for both sports teams in her sophomore year. After successfully making both Varsity Girls’ Tennis and Varsity Dance, she felt frightened at first, but immediately fell in love with her coaches and teammates.

“At first, I was intimidated being on such great teams, but everyone was extremely welcoming and supportive,” Lee said.

During the fall season, she normally spends five hours every day at tennis and dance practices and arrives home around 7 p.m.

“Managing time can be extremely stressful, but I learned how to be productive and to avoid procrastination,” sophomore Kara Lee said.

Lee expresses her gratitude towards both coaches and teams for making her high school experience unforgettable.

“My coaches are both such inspirational people to me and they have already taught me so much, not only in these sports, but also in life,” Lee said. “My teams are also loving and they never fail to amuse me.”

Lee plans to continue her sports career in dance and tennis after high school and improve her athletic abilities. She emphasizes that any student can play on two sports teams if they strive to work hard.

“I think that if a student really enjoys playing two sports, strives to do better and has good time management, they should definitely do both,” Lee said.

Junior Megan Webb came to Peninsula unprepared to play two sports taking place during the same season. She has a great passion for both swimming and lacrosse, which both occur during spring, and she decided to play on both teams. She finds the transition from sport to sport in school difficult at times, but she enjoys playing and plans to join a club team of an intramural level after high school.

“I enjoy playing both sports because they are both completely different in their own ways,” junior Megan Webb said. “Lacrosse is a team sport and swimming is more of an individual sport where beating your personal best time is your ultimate goal.”

Both athletes struggle to balance their time for their practices and games, but they confirm that they would never give up either one of the sports.

“It is a great feeling to strive to get better and to know that you are improving slowly,” Lee said. “I like being on two different sports teams because they give me two extremely different perspectives.”