Seniority

Every high school student athlete has experienced some kind of seniority in their life, unless they didn't start sports until their senior year which is very uncommon. The life of an underclassman is very different than the life of an upperclassman. If you are an underclass men their might be a few things that annoy you about all of the upperclassmen privileges or so called rules.

If you are on a team with upperclassmen you will soon come to find out that seniority trumps everything else. Whether it's that they get to cut in line when you go out to eat or choose the restaurants you eat at, this is always an issue. You are just going to have to get used to it not matter how much it sucks. Even if your team is made up of almost all juniors, the seniors will get their way.

Another thing that gets annoying is that seniors like to put all their responsibilities on you. Putting up and taking down nets or simply cleaning up is no longer their responsibility because they say "we've been doing this for 3 years, it's your turn". You just have to suck it up and do your part no matter how much you hate seniority. 

When all of this happens you are going to try and argue with the seniority rule and claim we are all a part of a team and should play equal roles. No matter how much this makes sense or how much you are right, the seniors will say you are not. There really is no point in arguing because it will just cause drama amongst the team. Sometimes you just have to go along with stupid situations no matter how annoying they are.

Seniority really sucks, but the seniors always tell me this is how I'll be. I always say I'll never be like them and that I'll be nice to underclassman. I guess everyone will find out what it's like to be a senior on their own time, and hopefully we all don't turn out to be exactly what we hated our junior year. But who knows, maybe I'll boss around the people I always said I wouldn't. Either way, one must know their role in a team and understand that things aren't always going to be easy and that it's not that hard to do a couple extra tasks if it makes everyone on the team happy. There's nothing wrong with being a team player and listening to what the seniors have to say. It's not going to hurt you to just do what you're told, unless it is extremely unrealistic and absurd of them to ask.