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Nothing to Worry About
by Kevin Smithwood
Some people may think that Kingswood sports are hopeless. Football has won only one game over the past two seasons. You have to be an upperclassman to remember the last time boys’ soccer won a game, and boys’ basketball, girls’ basketball, and hockey all failed to make the playoffs last year.

What do the students think of the state of Kingswood sports? Some of the answers I got when talking to students were, “Pretty bad, very poor” and “weak.” But I don’t think Kingswood has anything to worry about. It’s just one of those phases that all high schools and colleges (that don’t recruit) go through.

Every high school has good years and bad years, years where the school is strong in particular sports and weak in others. Granted, these cycles are less drastic in bigger schools, but they happen in every school nonetheless. This fall, most sports teams have had a tough time, but Kingswood has a field hockey team that made the playoffs, a golf team that went 17-8 and a cross country team that competed for a state championship. Ms. Ogden puts it like this:
“It’s called cycling. You get groups of athletes that are very strong and groups of athletes that aren’t so strong. Kingswood has excellent school spirit and teams really support one another.”

In a couple of years, Kingswood will probably excel in the sports that are lacking right now and be sub par in sports that it excels in this year. From 1996-2000 Kingswood had great groups of athletes that won state championships in hockey, football, baseball (twice), cross country, field hockey, and lacrosse. In all of the 1980’s Kingswood didn’t win nearly as many championships.

It won’t be long before Kingswood produces another great crop of athletes that will win another banner for our school. With a school this large, it’s bound to happen.