DD is quite fired up about her soccer league's second season starting up this week. I always enjoyed team sports, myself. We're both extroverts, FWIW.
DD is not the kind of kid whose attention wanders when she gets bored. She holds herself to a pretty high behavioral standard, so she's the one getting annoyed when some of the other kids are wandering, and holding up the practice. She's not the fastest, and she's certainly not the most aggressive (she's actually quite careful defensively, because she doesn't want to hurt anyone), but she has outstanding ball control, and the one thing that makes her stand out is her ability to see all the players around her, and make good decisions. It's sad that her ability to integrate her teammates is so far above that of the rest of her teammates, but she deals with it well. In fact, she recently started calling out to them, her teammates have started picking up on that, and so now she's basically teaching them to communicate with each other on the field.
I've always enjoyed how team sports work my physical and mental powers at the same time. The mental part of it is where there are many people all flowing around in chaos, and I'm processing where they're at, where they're going, how they're going to change based on what's happening, so slow down just a bit, and drag a bit over to this side, and in just a quarter second a space is going to open... THERE! You don't have to be faster than the other person, because if you're both the same speed, but you can think half a step faster, you win.
Side note: I've found that the same skills that I developed on the sports field have helped me safely avoid disaster on the interstate on more than one occasion.
