High School athletics

My positive experience that I have from a high school sporting event is watching Montross Christian High School play Oak Hill Academy. Both teams are nationally ranked in high school basketball, and in that game you have a couple of the best players in the country playing. On Montross Christian you have Kevin Durant, the 2008 Rookie of the Year and Greivis Vasquez who is Maryland's best player versus Ty Lawson and Michael Beasley, the 2008 NCAA Player of the Year and the rest of Oak Hill's team. The game was very interesting, Oak Hill was undefeated, and was headed for another National Championship. Montross Christian and head coach Stu Vetter has had success in the past in beating the basketball power Oak Hill, so there was a big build up for the game. Also Kevin Durant went to Oak Hill the previous school year and transferred to Montross. The game was sold out and what I was impressed with is that Oak Hill had a TV production set up at the game. This game was like going to a NBA game. Many of college's do not have the type of production equipment that Oak Hill has. The game was a classic and did not disappoint its fans. Montross beat Oak Hill on a buzzer beater to ruin its undefeated season and another National Championship. I was impressed on how good Kevin Durant was. He was playing against top competition and he was like a man amongst boys. I will probably always remember this game and I wish that everyone could play in front of a crowd and have the experience of being a star for a day like these players were.

My most negative high school sports experience that I have had, has happen on a couple of occasions. Playing football and basketball in western Pennsylvania. We would play teams that did not have any black players on there team and me and my teammates would get called niggers, and it is not like that I went to an all black school, it was just that our best athletes were always black. At least when I went to high school there, it has completely changed now. I remember it happening two times my junior year and two times my senior year. Before attending that high school they had a bench clearly brawl against a team. My junior year when the opposing teams called one of our players a nigger we sent a player after him to try to injure him and we did the same my Senior year. In football it was against the same team, but basketball it was against different high schools. It is something that is very uncalled for and when things happen like this it is just asking for trouble.
What can you really do but to try to ignore them or fight them, but if you try to fight them then you look like the bad guy, so I guess you have to be strong enough to play through it. I believe that there is nothing really that scholastic governance can do but say if they hear that type of language then they will kick the players out the game, but that is far from the referee's minds.