Sorority Sport

9/9/14

This blog post is going to be a bit different than my last one. This one is about how sport communication personally impacted me recently. Over the weekend, I was involved with my chapter’s sorority recruitment. Sorority recruitment involves a lot of talking to many girls that may potentially join your chapter. I always get nervous about this, considering I am different than many of the girls, one of the reasons being that I have a strong love for sports. Even though I am the minority when it comes to a situation such as recruitment, I was able to make a few special connections with some of the girls this weekend. I did this through sport. Once we got past the questions such as “what is your major?” or “what brings you out to recruitment?” we got to know more about each other. One of my favorite things about my chapter that I like to brag about is how great our intramural teams are. Whether it’s football, soccer, or basketball, we always put together a great team. Bringing up a topic such as intramurals usually leads to talking about sport. I specifically remember this happening with at least five of the girls I talked to. Even though five is nothing compared to how many girls in total I spoke to, it is enough to make special connections, and to have an impact in another girl’s life. Now they know that they won’t be the only one who likes sports in their sorority. The best part of how sport communication affected my recruitment experience this weekend was how I related with this one girl. She started talking about how she was missing the Redskins game that day for recruitment. I totally related with her because, like her, I was missing the Eagles game (don’t worry, I kept checking the score in between parties.) I just felt like this was a good thing to blog about, because it really shows how far sport communication can go.