Superstitions: Brunswick Girls Basketball Team

There are many people that have superstitions in which they believe. Some superstitions may be very common amongst a lot of people such as, bad luck comes in three’s, or crossing your fingers when making a wish. A lot of people don’t not realize that the individuals in their everyday environment have superstitions that believe in, which makes those people intersting. They can be very common in certain settings such as sports.

Today, in sports, superstitions play a huge role. More specifically, superstitions also play a big role at Brunswick High School. Julie Salzman, coach of the Brunswick Girls Basketball Team, is someone who has big superstitions. The most prominent superstition that Coach Salzman has, is that she will not, by any means,

Just about all of the girls on the team has superstitions of their own. One of the girls is Olivia Andrew, a senior on the varsity team. Her superstitions are that she has to wear pants to shoot arounds and she takes off her jewelry at away games. These superstitions developed over time for Andrew but in her high school career, she started to take them more seriously. Olivia Andrew has started a trend for her team because now she isn’t the only person that takes off her jewelry at the away games, and sometimes, you can even find another player wearing sweatpants at the shoot arounds. Olivia Andrew sticks to these superstitions and there has not been a time where she hasn’t done this inside the basketball setting. “I don’t know what happens if I don’t do this, but I don’t want to find out.,” said Andrew. It does not bother her if people don’t follow her superstitions because they may have their

One of them is that she has to clip her fingernails before every game. She got this idea because you can’t play basketball with long nails in general. It started when she had a game against Padua and before the game she decided to clip her nails. This was one of the best games of her high school career scoring about nineteen points and the whole team taking home a win. She then had another game against Holy Name and before it started, she forgot to clip her nails. This unfortunately, was the exact opposite of the game against Padua, and her team had lost. Fink blamed it on the fact that she hadn’t clipped her nails before the game and tries her best to always remember to clip her nails. If she happens to forget, she feels nervous the wholes game, and does not play well. The people that she knows thinks that it is a weird thing to do, but she doesn’t care because it helps her to feel less nervous and she takes pride in it. “I don’t really care what people think about it. It’s just my thing.,” said Fink. Angela Fink has another superstition that a lot of people are aware of. During a game when shooting foul shots, she does not like the awkward silence. One time at a game she told her teammates and they immediately started to make noise by clapping. Ever since, if she has to shoot foul shots, her teammates, as well as the coaches and the crowd clap for her. She feels that she does not need