In
poll, Jesuit seniors vault past stereotypes
By Casey
Doherty
Magis staff writer
So, who's
the smartest? Recently a poll was conducted amongst 18 Jesuit
seniors who did not participate in a sport this year and one
faculty member asked them to rank Jesuit's twelve sports from
highest to lowest GPAs. The students were largely accurate,
correctly picking Cross Country and Swimming as #1 and #2,
while also picking Wrestling Basketball and Football as the
last three. Those three were indeed the last three, but in
reverse order. The reason that students picked Cross Country
was summed up in one word: Felipe. Felipe as in Felipe Serrano,
as in super genius of the world. Cross Country's academic
excellence, thanks in large part to Magis, is well known throughout
the Jesuit community, so people ignored the tempting conclusion
that you had to be dumb to run around in circles all day for
fun. In large part, people picked because of the people they
knew on the teams, but at least one Jesuit student fessed
up to caving into stereotypes. Andras Konya picked football
last because, “I couldn't ignore the anti-jock section of
my brain.” Andras was obviously not the only one to pick football
last; the general consensus among Strake students was that
football was the dumbest. Football semi-vindicated itself
by finishing third to last in front of Basketball and Wrestling.
Wrestling, though they won state, maybe should have spent
some more of those countless hours practicing practicing counting
amongst other things. Students ranked Tennis three spots to
high, perhaps because of the country club appeal, or they
agreed with Kyle Armand, who ranked tennis #1 because he thought
of the face of Jesuit tennis, Christopher J. Mackey who has
quite the GPA. Mackey also has teammates though, whose GPAs
turned out to be not as impressive. All in all though, whether
basing their rankings on stereotypes or scientific evaluation
the Jesuit seniors were impressive in their picks, never misplacing
a sport by more than three spots.
*Poll
conducted among 18 seniors who did not participate in a sport
this year. They were asked to rank Jesuit's twelve sports
from highest to lowest GPAs.
*Note:
GPAs are based on starters, or in case of sports like Wrestling,
Tennis, Golf, Swimming, and Track a sample size of athletes
who contribute significantly. |
