Article : Arthur et Manon

How important is sport in Boston and at school ?

In American schools, the students finish every day at 2:30 pm because they have trainings. Needham high school proposes a lot of sports, such as dancing, rugby, soccer, football, basketball, baseball… When we went to the high school we could notice the importance of sport by the way they dress. They wear sport outfit every day whereas in France, we wear street outfit. After school not everyone practices sport, they also have artistic and computer science clubs. During their sport class, they also have social and moral activities. They can watch movies, play several games. Above any other sport, football is the most popular in high school. There is a game every Friday night, and some of the team outfit are on sell, like t-shirt, sweaters...They can organize sport events in high school and college.

Students can have a grant thanks to sport to enter a great college. In Needham people mostly practice sports to be fit and to avoid overweight.

Every school has its own team in every sport and for example at Needham high school sport infrastructures are huge. There is a football field, a baseball one and a gym for several sports. Sport is very important in the American culture and it attracts a lot of media coverage for example in restaurants. We ate at “buffalo wild wings”, there were a lot of televisions with different sports on each one for them. In Boston, there are famous teams, like “The Patriots” (American football), “The Red Sox” (Baseball), “The Celtics” (NBA, Basketball), “The Boston Bruins” (Ice Hockey). During basketball games, there are dancers or cheerleaders and a person who sings the American anthem before the game. And if you are lucky you could appear on the big screen.