High schools in South Carolina are bidding to make fishing an official high school sport, with teams, leagues and varsity letters. And with pro tournaments and television shows about fishing making it more popular than ever, some say it’s time for schools to recognize the activity as a full-fledged sport.“Fishing is a very demanding sport, both physically and mentally,” said Sisk. “It’s very tough. “We aren’t going out and doing two-a-days as far as practice goes, but it’s eight-hour days. “I heard that throwing 150 casts is equivalent to throwing 100 pitches in a game,” said Fishing Club member Carson Morgan. And, according to their coach, serious anglers often make 500 casts in a day.
Fish on
The South is backwards in many ways, but occasionally I just sit back in awe of its brilliance. Making fishing a varsity sport is a tremendous power move I cannot applaud with enough enthusiasm. If chess, cheerleading, and golf make the cut there is no reason at all to deny fishing especially since I guess these guys have stronger arms than most MLB pitchers. (They can apparently hurl like 5 games in a row without tiring.)
I always hated how smug the golf team was in high school and college...it was such a scam. I had friends on the golf team and THEY knew it was a scam. They drank their ass off playing golf for four years - and although we all hated them for it, what we really could not stand is we didn't think of it first. Well, I feel like even the golfers will be shaking their heads at the fishing team - essentially this will be a school sponsored drinking team. Awesome.
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