Sorority and Sports?
 

I understand that it varies from school to school, but I was curious to see if it is possible to play a varsity sport and be greek at the same time. Do any of you have sisters/brothers that did so?

It really depends on the chapter and the sport. One of my sisters was on the women's golf team, there was a DG on the tennis team, and several chapters had cheerleaders.

The Theta chapter at my alma mater is chock full of soccer players, track and cross country runners, volleyball players, swimmers and divers, and even a few womens ruggers. :)

As noted above, it really does depend on the school. DD had a sister who played varsity lacrosse, and one who cheered. The lacrosse player missed a lot of events and meetings because lacrosse really is a 2 season sport-numerous fall scrimmages/tournaments, and a long spring season. Not as much of an issue with the cheerleader. It is somewhat unusual at her school, I think there might be a couple others (swimming, volleyball, cheer) sprinkled in there. Having said that, I think it is the athletes who choose not to join, rather than sororities cutting them because of concerns that they will never be around. However, she has friends who are varsity athletes at other D-1 schools where it is not uncommon to be in an sorority and be a varsity athlete, UVa and Michigan come to mind. Being an athlete at a D1 school can be almost a full time job, then add school, not much free time is left. I don't think it is much different at D3 schools either, time-wise.

Two of my girls were Greek and cheered at the same time!

My D's school is only D3 so not quite as intense as a Division 1 powerhouse. Every member of her intercollegiate team was Greek. At her school the women's teams had members that represented all of the sororities on campus. The boys tended to pledge en masse ie the laxers were all Phi Delts, swimmers were PiKAs etc.

I have a KD friend who managed varsity swimming with Olympic trials, rock-solid grades, and sorority membership as well.

Depends not only on the school and the sport, but major, time-management skills, and the athlete.

I cheer. :) Half of our squad is greek as well, so it helps a lot because we can schedule practice around greek stuff. But there are a couple other girls in my house that are athletes, and they do miss a lot of events, but they seem to be able to juggle it just fine.

I concur with all of the above. :-) Just don't piss off your coach by trying to weasel out of practice for "sorority stuff."

^Yes, avoid weaseling at all costs! We had couple varsity gymnasts in our chapter, and of course, cheerleaders.

It is not uncommon in the NPHC across campuses. I had a chapter Soror on an athletic scholarship. It can be a stressful experience with scheduling conflicts, curfews, nosey coaches, etc.

Members (and aspirants) need to keep that in mind and know that while we will work with scheduling conflicts, we will not make too many exceptions to lessen the load, just as we don't for any other members (aspirants). All college students have something going on in their lives besides being a Delta (or Delta aspirant).

(Extenuating circumstances and emergencies are a different story.)

For NPC, one problem is if you have a sport that will directly conflict with recruitment. Of course, it will be considered an excused absence, but depending on how much you will miss, it could limit your options.

(Then again, on some campuses, there are sports that are so desirable that it doesn't matter...at my alma mater, if you missed open houses because you were a cheerleader, you likely got a full schedule at first invitational)

And the opposite as well...no one in your sorority will much dig if you can never make events because every practice is mandatory.

At the chapter that I advised at, we had three varsity synchro swimmers ( two are now on the National Team ), four varsity soccer players ( one was on the World Cup Team ), two varsity water polo players ( both are on the National Team), a varsity diver, a varsity sailor, several on varsity crew, three cheerleadrers, a dance girl, and a member of the track team. All of the women were active in the sorority, some held offices, they lived in the house and were good students.

I have a friend whose daughter is on a full track and field scholarship at UGA. She did not go through recruitment freshman year, but only because the coach did not allow it. He or she (can't remember)said they weren't against Greek life, but wanted to make sure team members could handle the academics and athletics first. My friend's daughter did, rushed this past recruitment as a sophomore and pledged Pi Beta Phi.

Depends on the season of the sport in question, when formal recruitment and the new member program takes place, and (in the case where the sports season and the NM period are concurrent) how lenient your coach is and how flexible your NM educator is.

I pledged in the fall of my freshman year. I then ran track that spring. I never had a conflict. If there had been a sorority obligation that came up during practice time, my coach probably would have just said "go take a jog on your own time". I don't know what I would have done if it were go to chapter vs. go to a meet, but fortunately the situation never arose.

We had a couple softball players and a member of the track team. Both of these sports lend themselves pretty well to sorority life because they are spring/summer sports. They were not allowed to play intramural sports, but as far as I could tell that was the only way it interfered with their membership.

My first Lil Sis was a scholarship softball player. She quit AOII about a month into the spring semester. She couldn't handle the practices, travel, school AND AOII. Softball paid for school so AOII was the activity that had to go. As everyone said, it depends on the sport, the school and the athlete. It doesn't always work out.

sometimes coaches don't want "their" athletes to participate in greek life and will not allow them to do so. If you are thinking of trying to do both, definitely check with the coaches as you make official visits.

Oh yes the most of the Sigma Zeta Epsylon Sisters are Cheerleader or Dancer !!
But if i be forced to make a decision i would always choose the SZE ♥

Good grief. I was looking for the sorority since I've never heard of it.

^^Why do that?

Yes. Didn't we just have this discussion on a recent thread? One that magically disappeared?

Stop the Google creepin', peeps.

Don't pretend it was just an innocent post. You posted a link to her 'whatever' page, then followed it up with a snarky comment. What you originally posted had nothing to do with researching a sorority with which you're unfamiliar. If you're gonna have the gall to iStalk, at least have to gall to be honest about it.

We had a few women who were on the track team (Division I recruits), and the other groups on campus definitely had representation from other sports. The major difference with my school is that we didn't provide athletic scholarships so the teams didn't "own" their athletes.

There were, however, a few sports that did not have any Greek representation because of the rigor of the teams (these were NCAA DI championship teams), and because they were pretty tight-knit in and of themselves.

I admit it. I googled the phrases/organizations posted in the signature of a member posting in this thread, who said that members of her sorority are almost all "dancers and cheerleaders.

It seemed odd to me, because the sorority name isn't familiar, the poster claimed to be 25 and a member of a sorority, living in Germany. I was interested to find out what these sorority/dance/cheerleading group(s) were about, so when I found ONE thing that mentioned it, I posted the public link that mentioned the sorority/dance/cheerleaders referenced in the Poster's signature.

Many people here question the authenticity of people who come here, accusing people of creating socks, not being truthful, or simply discussing the improbabilities of a person's story.

My snarky comment was "But of course!" I made it because it seemed very similar to people claiming to be greek and making blogs/forums/etc. describing themselves in tantalizing cliched language -"blond/thin/cheerleader/perfect body 18-year-olds in a sorority."

I get it. Mea culpa. Wrist slapped. :rolleyes:

And what is this "iStalking"?? Is posting ONE (the only) LINK that I found in ONE SEARCH of an organization listed in someone's signature - which people put up willingly to share their affiliations - really STALKING? There's a huge different between that and true stalking. Am I truly "stalking" here?

I guess we can't move on, because even after I took it down and asked the poster to do the same, and several others people have already scolded me, people are still talking about it four hours later.

We can and will move on. :)

I missed all of this so I do not know what you posted.

I will just generally say that there is a difference between posting information to identify a GLO versus posting information to identify a person. It can be even more sketchy when identifying the GLO is also identifying a person (i.e. newly founded GLOs, small GLOs, something in particular about the person and the GLO).

That is why when I post an external link I make sure it is nothing that can haunt a GCer. I remember one time where I thought I was finding a newbie's chapter link to call the chapter out on something. First of all, I had the wrong chapter. God forbid if I had tried to identify the actual person behind the username. Thank goodness I have always sucked at that type of cyberstuff.

Well, CeCe, I don't see why you didn't just ask your mother.

I personally played tennis for two years while being in a sorority. A couple of my sisters were cheerleaders and golden girls and there was also an gymnast or two. I think we had two soccer players when I was a freshman.

But you didn't ask me, so I won't tell you! ;)

Like.

CeCe, you have a great resource at home. :)

This GC legacy concept is adorable!

In that case, WHY ARE YOU COMING HERE TO ASK US QUESTIONS?! USE YOUR REAL LIFE RESOURCES!! THE INTERNET DOES NOT REPLACE REAL LIFE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE. LAZY INTERNET GENERATIONERS.

:D

Hey biotch; lay off my kid! ;)

GO AWAY, HELI-MOM!!!! :)

I hope CeCe ends up going to a school with a lot of sororities represented so we can have a big ole party hearing about what she's doing. No 3 chapter schools allowed!

She is also probably the only PNM who will have no problem gathering recs from the lovely people of GC. :)

Also, CeCe, if you need help with the stuff that gets you to college (like, I don't know, apps!), I just did all that and would be more than happy to help.

Cue Bellatrix and Molly's final duel! ;-)

C'mon, do you really expect me to drop the Harry Potter routine?

Moooooom! You're bruisin' my rep!!!! *groan*

I'm not supposed to think this way, but the size of Greek Life is actually a big factor in my college search haha!

Thank you so much!

Mom taught me how to get on the Greek Chatters' good sides (ex. not asking stupid questions) and I think it's working. :)

This thread is the cutest thing ever!

LOL! It was big on my list, too!

HAHAHAHA

I find myself wondering how Hypoallergenic's college visits will go.

Next fall's going to be fun on GC.