Without sports I would not have been able to go to college.
I might have afforded a trade school, and that wouldn’t have been so bad, but a 4 year college degree is prohibitively expensive for most people.
I was a killer on the volleyball court, and won 4 championships for my high school, so I was able to secure a full 4 year athletic scholarship. I wanted to study botany, and to do that I needed to keep in shape and keep delivering wins on the court. We won 2 championships in 4 years, and were school heroes! Immediately after graduating I stopped playing volleyball and started growing medical cannabis, which had been the goal of my plan from the outset. You need to remember that this was a few years ago and outside of Colorado and Oregon there were very few places cool with legalized cannabis. I saw the writing on the wall, and knew the demand for medical cannabis would spike in the near future, so I got in on the ground floor. Medical grade cannabis has rigid standards that need to be followed, so I grew different strains in a makeshift lab, to make clones for growing elsewhere. The same hard work ethic I used on the courts and in the classroom carried over to my botany work. Within three years I was leveraging my unique and powerful cannabis blends into a partial ownership position with a major chain of cannabis dispensaries! My future lays in medical cannabis, and I have to say that the future looks bright.