I played Varsity Volleyball for 4 years and I’m going to be captain senior year. And i played varsity tennis for only one year because I can no longer play anymore due to injury, I was going to be captain for three years also. Will this impact my admissions? And i love both sports and i enjoy playing them, but after that injury i’m scared that it will impact my college admissions. thank you!
No, assuming you replace it with another EC. No college would expect you to play with an injury.
Tons of students drop activities after freshman or sophomore year, or later due to injuries. Irrelevant in college admissions. Question is, what did you do with your spare time (sports or otherwise)?
My son decided not to fence his senior year after being varsity for 3 years. He replaced it with Theater, which he has wanted to do but is at the same time at Fencing. He got into his first choice ED school.
Unless you are a recruited athlete, a sport is considered to be on par with any other ECs. As long as you spent time involved in other activities in your school and/or community you are just fine. It is normal for students to drop some activities and start new ones during their HS career.
Re-read the answers on your prior very similar post Rarely is there such unanimity of opinion on CC. Stop worrying about it. http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2052941-will-it-make-a-difference-if-you-play-1-sport-vs-2-sports-for-college-admissions.html#latest
@happy1: Absolutely correct. I gave up football & track, two sports for which I would have been a recruited athlete. I stayed with wrestling, switched from football to soccer & boxed. It certainly affected my status with major universities, but I choose to do what I preferred to do rather than to be a recruited athlete. It still upsets my former football coach to this day–even though we were a national powerhouse regardless of my presence or absence. Unfortunately, my football coach was also the athletic director & I suspect that he retaliated against me for changing sports. Not an unreasonable suspicion if he was still upset 40 years later. And I am not kidding.
Was easy for me because I wanted an LAC which were all Division III non-athletic scholarship schools as per NCAA rules & regs.
Like you, I was team captain in my remaining two high school sports & that may have helped re: college admissions. Therefore, it is worth mentioning, in my opinion, that you were slated to be team captain in a sport that you had to discontinue due to injury.
Dropping tennis due to a shoulder injury is quite common. I don’t think that you should worry about it. If you want to then pick up a different activity that you like.
I’m currently president in two clubs and I have 500+ hours of community service for volunteering at a local language school.
Any four year membership with substantial contribution (for example, president or other office holder) during high school should help with college admissions.
It shouldn’t matter. Don’t worry about it.