<p>Tennis is a good one to pick up at any time.</p>
<p>My school has required Phy Ed courses (I'll probobly test out of them but take them anyways for fun since they are free).</p>
<p>All kinds of things from Aikido and Social dance to your basics like Tennis, Fitness and Swimming.</p>
<p>i don't play any school sports, but's it's not like i sit at my desk all day. i jog and rollerblade all the time. would it be stupid to put that on my college app?</p>
<p>not particularly... though I wouldn't put it under something like "extracurriculars" unless you dedicate between 20-30 hours a week to it. otherwise, I'd just mention it in some sort of personal statement, or interview that you enjoy those activities.</p>
<p>Schools will understand if you don't have a sport. There are other extracurriculars you could do. I'm about as athletic as a brick and it really has never held me back that much.</p>
<p>I'll tell ya what, I didn't really do anything very atheltic during high school (I did tkd since the 8th grade, but most people I run into nowadays don't really consider that athletics for some reason). Once I got into college, I started running and weightlifting. Both you can squeeze into your free time and don't require much athletic talent.</p>
<p>Swimming is great, it's easy on the joints, very good form of exercise.</p>
<p>I'm pretty unathletic myself.. I play badminton, that's a pretty easy sport to learn.</p>
<p>if you didn't find sports classes at your school, check the Kinesiology department. They almost certainly have things like "tennis 1, tennis 2, tennis 3" etc etc.</p>
<p>At my school they are only pass / fail</p>
<p>how can you say you're unathletic when your above average in swimming? </p>
<p>if your above average in swimming then you are athletic</p>
<p>Only in swimming- that is it. I'd love to learn to play tennis, badminton and such, but I seriously have no skills right now.</p>
<p>For such classes at college, do they really teach you the most basic of basics first, and do they already assume you know how to play a bit?</p>
<p>Sometimes you just have to find your own sport. I sucked at cross country the three years I ran in high school, but I found I excelled at many different martial arts.</p>
<p>Plus, I love to spar, so it really helped.</p>
<p>What about frisbee? You might find you like it, and some school have Atomic Frisbee teams.</p>
<p>hey, you people who only have one sport and think they're unathletic, just look at people like me. I can't even play a single sport. busted up my knee, and now... nothing. i'm not even allowed to play recreationally, doctors orders (i've become very bitter towards him). at times i do play, and i pay for it dearly with weeks of pain. be glad that you have one sport. i've got none.</p>
<p>heres an interesting link. it rates all the sports in terms of athleticism:</p>
<p>if you are a good swimmer then you must be in pretty good shape in my opinion..</p>
<p>ive played a variety of sports pretty competitively and my view on swimming is that it requires a good foundation in both strength and stamina. </p>
<p>and I personally think that if you have stamina then you can get good at most sports because thats where most people fall short.</p>
<p>don't worry about it! Swimming is a real sport :) Running and Walking are also ways to get in shape and pretty easy once you build up your stamina. Not much coordination involved.</p>
<p>Firax, I'm with you there. Except I'm not a swimmer. I can keep my head above water, but I can't breast stroke to save my life.</p>
<p>I'm curious too whether or not the college sports classes assume that entrants already know what they're doing. I suppose we'll have to email the professors.</p>
<p>Inspirational story: my great aunt began learning shot put (yes, indeed) in her seventies. Now, she wins medals in the senior olympics. If she can start such a hard sport so late in life, I'm sure people like us can learn how to play a little basketball. Take comfort in knowing that you aren't the only one.</p>