TGP#4 Do you play basketball?... No, I play mini golf.

tall vs short... tall always wins.

Hey there. So my next blog is going to be about a topic that actually just recently happened to me. I was at the grocery store, by myself and this lady came up to me and commented on how tall I was and said how she wished she was my height. I was flattered until she pulled out the question "So you play basketball?"

HM… NO lady. I don’t play basketball just because I am tall. Tall people can do a lot of things and there are more sports than just basketball that are good to play if you are tall.

For example, the average height for a D1 college volleyball player is now 6'2. There are many other examples I could use but they are not needed. Years ago women’s sports were not as intense and at such a high level that they are today. Now a days girls need to be tall and athletic if they are going to go anywhere with their sport.

It just saddens me that some people are still stuck in the past and don’t realize how much girls sports have changed. Guys get a lot of credit for playing football and basketball and baseball, the list goes on and on. They get 3 times the attention that girls do and that is also frustrating. Guys can have dreams about playing in the NFL or the MBA and dreams to be getting paid millions for doing something they love and having a millions of fans. But sadly girls will never get this.

The only professional sport we have that gets any type of fan base is the WMBA. Women are unrecognized and unappreciated in sports. So next time you ask someone tall if they just play basketball… think twice before saying it because you never know what that person might do.