Four Lesson The Church Can Learn From A Track Team

I came across this article written by Cameron Smith about uniforms in the world of high school track and field and how they tend to be pretty, well, uniform.

I’m really NOT that old but I’ve been around during a sexual revolution. Everything is about sex these days. I remember a few years back my brother Mike and I went to watch the University of Oklahoma indoor track team run and I was shocked at what both the men and women runner wore. Almost every team was wearing tight tops and shorts made of spandex (or of other material that is nearly as form-fitting). Lets just say nothing was left to the imagination for male or females. This applies to volleyball as well. So when I saw this article I wanted to give a shout-out to both the writer and the coach/designer as well as the girl track team that dared to be difference, took a stand and made a difference.

The Washington Post reported that the city's best public school girls track team broke free of the competition when they ditched their traditional uniforms for something a bit more retro: a skirt, (See above photo, second to the left in the back and the girl leading in the front are wearing them).

To be exact, the uniform items that helped the Dunbar (D.C.) girls track team excel were skorts, skirts with black compression shorts attached to them. When the team's female athletes put them on, they claimed to feel significantly less self-conscious about their appearance, leaving the runners to focus solely on their events.

That additional focus more than made up for any lost streamlining as Dunbar athletes stepped forward with faster times and something that may be responsible for those improvements: Significantly more self confidence.

"That skort is a miracle worker," Dunbar star Destiny Phillips, one of the team's co-captains, told the Post. "You look good, you run good. It makes you feel different when you're out on the track, like no one can come get you."

I simply say, Congratulations!

I think the church can lean a lesson or two from “skorts”!

You don’t have to settle for statue quo!

You if you’re uncomfortable about something then change it!

Change is good and many time much, much better!

It never pays to be safe!