school sports

Journalist Paul Cuadros goes to Siler City, North Carolina, with the intention of writing about the hardships faced by the town's Latino immigrants, but after observing the strained relationships between the town's longtime residents and the newcomers, he decides to help bring them together and begins coaching a high school soccer team that gets to the state championships.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

Bill Train, a talented pitcher for the Edison High Egg Rolls, has two good friends on the team but cannot seem to make the coach like him, or anyone else for that matter.

Jeremy Bloom is offered a second chance to pull up his D- grades from the previous year in his teacher's poetry writing class. His topic is sports.

High school hockey star Pete Gordon finds himself on the worst team in the league when school districts change, and Pete must contend with his waning interest in the sport after a string of team losses threatens his hopes for the playoffs.

Eighteen-year-old Corey sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when he discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing, friend-framing, team-destroying force of evil.

Discusses issues related to girls' participation in sports and provides information on the rules, equipment, training, and more for eight sports which high school girls are most likely to play.

Kylie Jean Carter has been waiting for three years to become a Little Dazzler--a junior cheerleader for the high school's Dancing Dazzlers--so she can cheer for her brother's high school football team.

The story of ten teammates, brought together from an elite Seattle private school and an inner city public school to work together on a sports team. They won the league championship and everyone felt the experiment had been a success. Twenty years later one of the team members decided to look up his teammates to see if the exposure to privilege gave the Black kids a chance at a better life and if the White kids learned anything about the other side of life. Did crossing the lines of class, race, and wealth change any of their lives?.

Eighteen-year-old Louden Swain pursues many interests as he strives to achieve maturity.