I was visiting my parents last week, and they had an entire trunk in their basement filled with laminated newspaper articles, mainly from when I played sports in high school - being the Plain Dealer Player of the Week for cross country, being selected for the News Herald Track and Field All-Stars or that kind of thing. I'm sure similar online honors exist for today's young athletes, but Googling yourself can't have the same thrill as buying a paper and flipping to the back of the sport section to see if your name or photo made it in to the weekend coverage.
That's so cool! I have a few clippings from my little league days that my grandparents saved. The coaches would submit brief highlights and they tried to be equitable, so my mentions were usually like I hit one single while another player had 3 home runs :)
I was visiting my parents last week, and they had an entire trunk in their basement filled with laminated newspaper articles, mainly from when I played sports in high school - being the Plain Dealer Player of the Week for cross country, being selected for the News Herald Track and Field All-Stars or that kind of thing. I'm sure similar online honors exist for today's young athletes, but Googling yourself can't have the same thrill as buying a paper and flipping to the back of the sport section to see if your name or photo made it in to the weekend coverage.
That's so cool! I have a few clippings from my little league days that my grandparents saved. The coaches would submit brief highlights and they tried to be equitable, so my mentions were usually like I hit one single while another player had 3 home runs :)