Seeing Double?
Twins Travis and Kelly Cox pose on their first day of junior year.
Courtesy of Erin Cox
Bonds are strong between twins, they have room to grow and change. Sports can also create a new level of togetherness among twins. Juniors Kelly and Travis Cox, fraternal twins, have been swimming for over ten years.
“Having a sibling on the team makes me want to do more with the team, like show- ing up to practice and tarping the pool. It’s a sort of competition,” said Kelly.
Regarding their interactions, it doesn’t affect swimming too much, “Having a sibling in the sport provides an outlet to complain about a hard practice or a cold meet, but I don’t think it affects my performance in practice nor races or my enjoyment of the sport,” said Travis.
Another pair of fraternal twins, seniors Jack and Sam Wiscavage, are football fanatics. The brothers share the love of football and both play on the varsity team, “I chose football because of the physicality, the camaraderie, and the competition,” said Jack.
Courtesy of Jack Wiscavage
Both Wiscavage’s enjoy having a sibling on the team, “Having a sibling on the team is very nice because you always have some- one to talk to no matter what and it’s fun to do something you both very much enjoy together. It’s just fun to share the emotions of the sport,” said Sam.
Their is a slight rivalry between the two for certain things, “If we go one on one there definitely is a rivalry because I really want to beat him but in general I’m really happy if he does well and I don’t get upset if he plays better than me in a game,” said Jack. Through thick and thin these brothers have relished their time together on the same team, “Having a sibling in the sport makes the sport way more fun because I feel it’s a special thing to be able to play alongside my twin,” said Jack.
A pair of identical twins, juniors Julia and Claire Muldoon participate in cross country. They’ve been in cross country for three years and started because their friend’s older brother suggested that they’d join and said it was fun.
“It doesn’t affect me negatively to do the same sport as Julia. I guess we just spend more time together and drive together to practice...It doesn’t really affect the sport too much,” said Claire.
Julia similarly feels the same about how having a sibling doesn’t affect the sport, “Cross country is more of an individual sport,” said Julia.
Yet another pair of fraternal twins, fresh- men Nadia and Andre Grenville, play tennis. Andre has been playing for nine years and Nadia for five years. Most of their family plays tennis and also wanted to be apart of it, “As we grew up I got really dedicated, my twin Nadia tried out a few sports before eventually she got back into it...But in the long run it benefited both of us to push ourselves and become better players,” said Andre.
Nadia enjoys the fact that she can play a sport with her siblings.
“Siblings playing the same sport makes it more engaging I think you have someone to always talk to about it and it makes it more fun,” said Nadia. Even though they can’t play on the same team at school, they still play outside of the school teams together.
Sports can vary especially whether they also have a sibling or even a twin in the mix. With more activities that involve one another it can build their bond and share of memories. With sports being a part of their lives, they create new experiences to be remembered.
