Here’s a unique sports feature. Are athletes more open these days about expressing their emotions after winning or losing a game? Interview athletes and coaches. Capture their emotions in great images you can run in print, online or in your school broadcast.
The Washington Post writes in a story covering high school basketball:
A generation ago, according to interviews with a dozen area coaches, the players on a team that lost in such painful fashion would have taken a deep breath and walked off the court. Emotions would have been suppressed; tears would have been unthinkable. But not anymore.
Sometimes they will come from the winners, sometimes the losers, sometimes both. But at the end of nearly every game, regardless of sex, some players will break down and cry.
“I think it’s a human thing,” said Eleanor Roosevelt Coach Rod Hairston, whose team is the three-time defending Maryland 4A girls’ champion. “I don’t think it’s a boys’ or girls’ thing anymore. When you put so much time and effort into something, I think you can’t help but have those kinds of emotions and feelings about the outcome.”…
Unfettered emotion has become a central component in sports’ iconic moments. The movement from “hold it in” to “let it out” has permeated society.
