In both school and organized sports, participating and working with others is a part of the “game”. In the classroom and at school, students are forced to work with and be around other students that they may or may not get along with. Additionally, students have to do homework together, work on projects together, and attend all sort of events. It is undoubtedly difficult to work with certain types of people, but school teaches young people to deal with differing personalities, opinions, and habits, in order to work together. It is an invaluable skill to be able to work with anyone, and years of schooling helps build up these types of communication and “workability” techniques. Now, it is a bit different with sports. Especially with club and travel teams, the group of people can be smaller and come from all different types of places in the nearby area. In a high stress environment of competing and working towards getting better, as well as seeing and traveling with the same group of people over and over again, there will be times when personalities cross and players bud heads. However, it is important to see that having a previous understanding of working and succeeding with others will help younger athletes become successful. Also, working with others in sports will help in the classroom the same way that working well in the classroom will create skills for overcoming hardships in the athletic world.