Frequent Flier Miles

One thing that sports bless you with is travel experiences. College athletics will take you places across the country that you may have never made it to had it not been for sports.

It's not like your spending a vacation in these places so you usually don't get to see too much when traveling for sports, but you do get a feel for what the place is like, which is nice. Some teams travel across seas for training and competition. College athletics truly give you a chance to visit some interesting places.

In my personal experience I have scaled the east coast up and down. I have been to PA/MD/VA/DE/NC/SC/NY/FL/WV/NJ/OH/OK/ND to wrestle. This list is mild compared to where some athletes have traveled. The expenses can add up and it really takes some dedication and sacrifice by parents to help get kids to these places. Heck, The only time I have been to Disney World was when it was for wrestling.

One place that I have traveled that holds a special place in my heart is Fargo, North Dakota. This is what I imagine every time I consider going back to Fargo Picture. I take back certain generalizations with me from everywhere I travel. I think Fargo is a bunch of farmland as well as the most boring place on Earth. I believe that Oklahoma City, OK is one of the worst places I have ever been too. I question if they have car inspections in that town as most the cars I saw were so beat up they would not pass Maryland State car inspection.

With this said, I wouldn't describe any of the places I bashed above as anything less than interesting. The fact of the matter is that college athletics and just athletics in general take you some places that you have always wanted to go to and some places that you never want to go back to. If you take a quick peek at the Lehigh Wrestling Schedule, you will see that just this semester alone, the team will travel around the east coast, leaving the home state of PA 6 six times, including trips to Northwestern in Illinois, and Troy, NY. The NCAA championships are in Philadelphia this year. Wrestlers from around the country will travel to Pennsylvania to prove themselves as the best in their class.

The sacrifices of college athletics are heavy, but the fact, these college sports also bring some heavy benefits that might go overlooked.