I grew up the youngest in my family where my oldest brother is 13 years older than me and my middle brother is 8 years older than me.
Growing up with such a large age gap, my brothers and I were always at such different stages of life. When my oldest brother was graduating high school, I was starting kindergarten. I am now 23 and both of my brothers are deep into their careers and married with children. I’m barely graduating grad school and trying to start my career.
But one thing that has always brought me and my brothers together is sports. We did it all-baseball, football, karate, soccer, volleyball, dance and together we went surfing snowboarding, wake-boarding, dirt bike riding and more. As a family we have attended many baseball games, Supercross events and watched plenty of MMA and Super Bowl’s together.
Even now we are able to talk about everything going on in sports. I update them or they tell me something new. But no matter what, sport is something that connects the three of us.
Sports means uniting people from different backgrounds. When people get together to watch a game together they are getting to enjoy something as one. When a game is exciting they celebrate together. When their favorite team loses, they mourn together. Millions of people gather together to watch the Super Bowl, the World Cup, the Olympics and more. People of all different backgrounds are brought together through sports.
Sports will forever be special to me for the bond it has brought me with my brothers.
Alyssa Freyder 