How Competitive Sports Build Lifelong Friendships
Overview
Being a part of competitive sports fosters friendships that are deep and lasting through shared experiences, teamwork, and trust. This can be seen through spending hours together, working towards a common goal, and spending hours competing. Through wins and losses teammates form a unique bond that goes beyond their sport, leading to lifelong friendships that are built on trust, care, and shared experiences.
Spending time together
Competitive athletes spend a lot of time together through competing, practicing, or team bonding. Through these shared experiences athletes are able to form deep relationships and trust with their teammates. Playing competitively requires you to spend many hours during the week with your team and weekends together, spending this much time with your teammates creates close long lasting friendships.
Working together
Another aspect of team sports that fosters lifelong friendships is working together towards a shared goal. While competing in competitive sports you work together towards the same goal of winning and getting better at your sport. This helps to build trust between you and your teammates because you are relying on them to put in the work and effort to help the team to succeed. Lastly, while working together there are points where you will need help whether thats during a game, during practice, or in your everyday life and you can rely on your teammates to be there to show care and support.
Competing together
Lastly, competing together helps to create long lasting friendships since it adds to the shared experiences and trust that you have with your teammates. When you are competing in a high stress environment you have to trust that your teammates will try their hardest and will be there to support you when you need it. Additionally participating in intense activities releases endorphins, which are linked to positive emotions. These positive feelings that are associated during games or practices can create lasting positive association between you and your teammates, that foster strong friendships. Lastly, while your competing you experience both the wins and the losses, the high and the low moments together which brings people closer whether it is to celebrate a victory or mourn a loss.
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