Well, and field hockey uses a ball and the shorter curve ended sticks with only one ball contacting side, with the very different stick-handling technique that goes with it. And the co-ed kilts for seriousness.
Foot hockey has some resemblance to soccer, in that you're kicking an object around, often a tennis ball, but a crushed soda can is also a common (and more puck shaped) one, on concrete or asphalt rather than grass, possession and out of bounds go like hockey i.e.: fighting for the puck around the boards and behind the 'net' rather than going out and throwing in unless it analogously went over the 'boards', in which case you'd have a face off. In practice, boards end up being the walls if you're in a gym or hallway, or a fence, if often on only two sides, if you're in a playground.
Huh. Okay. And *hee*. It may also have been that the sports weren't the more important competitive team things at my school and The Ontario Classics Conference, or Reach (for the Top) would have been kind of weird with mascots and gendering. Even within sports the things where people were collectively representing the school but operating more as individuals, though still called the [school name] [sport] team things like the UTS swim team, for example, had greater prominence than say rugby (and yes, we had enough girls interested in rugby for a team - we didn't have one, but we could have), so there was less reason to call them the [blanks]. And gendering would have looked off what with the way that they went to the same meets and all. One still had "How'd the boys do?" and "How'd the girls do?", but one had to be specific in either direction. For that matter, all the teams were "The Blues", so talking about them tended to first go to what competition before what gender.
re: friends vs. siblings
True, they are mostly possessed of big differences. The ranges of what sibling relationships can be and what friendship relationships can, do have overlap though, and that aspect of them where the one left behind goes "they're way the heck out there now", when one's connection is sustained by something other than common routine, or place in life, seemed to be one that could. Wouldn't in all cases, but I'm pretty big on particularity of experience for purposes of drawing connections. As such, they're often less usefully predictive generalizations and more "Well this is a possible how and why for that situation that fits the observed data. ...that I'm not insisting on". Perhaps I'd make more sense if I'd read the Sarah Dessen and was responding more directly to it.
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Foot hockey has some resemblance to soccer, in that you're kicking an object around, often a tennis ball, but a crushed soda can is also a common (and more puck shaped) one, on concrete or asphalt rather than grass, possession and out of bounds go like hockey i.e.: fighting for the puck around the boards and behind the 'net' rather than going out and throwing in unless it analogously went over the 'boards', in which case you'd have a face off. In practice, boards end up being the walls if you're in a gym or hallway, or a fence, if often on only two sides, if you're in a playground.
Huh. Okay. And *hee*. It may also have been that the sports weren't the more important competitive team things at my school and The Ontario Classics Conference, or Reach (for the Top) would have been kind of weird with mascots and gendering. Even within sports the things where people were collectively representing the school but operating more as individuals, though still called the [school name] [sport] team things like the UTS swim team, for example, had greater prominence than say rugby (and yes, we had enough girls interested in rugby for a team - we didn't have one, but we could have), so there was less reason to call them the [blanks]. And gendering would have looked off what with the way that they went to the same meets and all. One still had "How'd the boys do?" and "How'd the girls do?", but one had to be specific in either direction. For that matter, all the teams were "The Blues", so talking about them tended to first go to what competition before what gender.
re: friends vs. siblings
True, they are mostly possessed of big differences. The ranges of what sibling relationships can be and what friendship relationships can, do have overlap though, and that aspect of them where the one left behind goes "they're way the heck out there now", when one's connection is sustained by something other than common routine, or place in life, seemed to be one that could. Wouldn't in all cases, but I'm pretty big on particularity of experience for purposes of drawing connections. As such, they're often less usefully predictive generalizations and more "Well this is a possible how and why for that situation that fits the observed data. ...that I'm not insisting on". Perhaps I'd make more sense if I'd read the Sarah Dessen and was responding more directly to it.