Sportrait

Raylene Horsman doesn't like to watch sports - she likes to play them. Lots of them.

"When you play sports, you feel better about yourself," explains the 14-year-old Weyburn Junior High student.

Currently in Grade 9, Horsman recently finished her second season playing centre with the Cobra girls basketball team under coach Lars Guenther. A former figure skater and tap dancer, she is involved with baseball every summer and enjoys badminton, volleyball and tennis as well. She doesn't mind soccer and football either, she adds, and is currently taking swimming lessons too.

Of all the activities she's been involved in, Horsman has found that she likes the supportive atmosphere of team sports in particular.

"It's more fun," she says. "You can pick up skills from other people. You learn from them."

Of these, basketball is her favourite. "I've played ever since I was really little," says Horsman, who started playing intramurals at Assiniboia Park School when she was only in Grade 3.

Since then she has discovered the importance of working with others as part of a team and enjoys being coached by Guenther. She hopes to continue playing basketball at the high school level as well.

Even though she loves playing sports, Horsman admits that she isn't really a competitive person by nature and knows that winning isn't everything.

"It doesn't really matter if you lose or not, because there always has to be a loser and a winner."

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