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With regard to sports, there almost always are opportunities to participate or play; it’s not choose either a sorority or never to break a sweat again, with no alternatives. If you want to play your sport, you can play your sport.
The distinction some people are drawing is about being an official college athlete, who is playing on the big-deal varsity team against other schools’ scholarship players, some of whom eventually play the sport professionally. You don’t rock up out of nowhere at an ACC or SEC (or similar) school and just join the varsity. Those players often are targeted years in advance. Even the varsity players at my Big Ten college who weren’t offered scholarships could have been full-scholarship players at other schools, and even those players get recruited long before August.
But you absolutely can participate on pickup, small group, intramural, rec center, or club teams for many sports. There are PLENTY of opportunities to be sporty for a few hours a week at most US schools.
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