Starting about a month ago Sjhs started a basketball open gym. Open gym is open to the whole school, however the actual basketball tryouts are just for ninth grade boys and girls. But it’s not enough to just read about it, let’s see what some ninth graders participating in open gym say.
When asked, “Why are you going to open gym?” Sydnie says she is going “to get good exercise and to get better at basketball.” Bethany agrees with Sydnie but adds that she goes to hang out with her friends. Colton Davis says he is going to open gym because he wants higher his chances of getting on the basketball team and Paige Simpson says agrees.
You could say that people who have more basketball experience have a better chance of making the team. This might be the case this year. Paige Simpson has been playing basketball for 10 years now and says open gym is obviously not the same as playing on a team. On actual basketball teams you are on the same teams all the time and in open gym you have different people all the time. Colton Davis, a ninth grader, has been playing since 2nd grade and was on the Reagan team for 3 years.
So whether you been playing for 2 years or 10 you should tryout for the team, because you’d have a ton of fun, just ask these kids!