My 11 YO bowls in a youth bowling league on Saturday mornings. He’s a good bowler with a 110 average. The kids on his team (two girls, one boy) are all much younger than him (next year he moves up to the young teen group) and he’s wonderful with them, very patient and helpful.
All of the kids in this league range in age from 6 to 11. My 11 YO is good enough to have moved up already to the older kids, but I decided to give him one more year with the younger kids since he’s so good with them.
So anyway, yesterday they were bowling against a team of four girls of which three were there. The first game was a close match, close enough that it came down to the last bowler on our team. She got a spare and then some additional pins (not a common occurrence for this sweet kid), winning the game by three pins.
One of the girls on the other team didn’t like that and she stamped her feet and said she was going to “kick some tail.”
Oooookay.
The second game, our team beat them by 124 pins. It wasn’t even close. Our little pouty diva looked angry.
In the third frame of the third game she threw her first ball, then a minute or two later, we realized she was gone. The coach is looking for her everywhere and we finally found her halfway down the building, sitting in a corner by a trash can saying “I don’t feel good.”
So in the middle of the third frame, she just decided to quit, claiming she didn’t feel good.
I think we all knew she was majorly annoyed with losing and just decided to give up. Honestly I was really surprised and hadn’t ever encountered that before in the two years my son’s been bowling.
I’d say this girl was probably around the same age, 10 or 11. I’m not sure how to take her actions, other than poor sportsmanship. What do y’all think - if you have kids, how have you handled someone on the opposing team being unsportsmanlike?
