Anyone ever picked last when choosing teams in grade school?

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In junior school i was pretty lucky in that I was good at football, athletic, and the class clown/joker so I tended to picked 1st/2nd or 3rd on average, depending on whether the chooser and I hated eachother or not

When i started senior school i went a bit more introverted, wasn't expecting the much larger environment, nobody really knew me and I didn't make much effort to get to know them, so I wasn't really picked that much - then again we hardly ever did team sports and when we did the teacher picked teams for us anyway when I moved to a different senior school we played football at break but we never picked teams, just counted how many people there were and split in half, so never was an issue.

I think a lot of the reason people don't get chosen is because they aren't outgoing or well known - and so they get ignored, regardless of their actual skill in the sport. I was just as good at football in senior school as I was in junior, but I wasn't as well known or confident, and so I got picked less.

Letting pupils pick teams amongst themselves in PE is a practice that must be stopped. It's outdated, if you like.

You only need to look through this thread to understand it's about pecking orders, and nothing to do with sporting ability. These pecking orders don't help anyone, unless they're at the top of them.

I got picked last on team games, but I love sports, I have an athletic build, and I'm strangely coordinated for someone who tends to live in his head, so I started diving and swimming, and I became a gold medalist in diving for my school, then my district, then my province. I loved practicing by myself for hours, just me and the water, in a deserted pool. (The coach gave me the keys, so I practiced in the early morning before the pool opened; I felt like I was on my own planet, really I did, it was amazing).

After I started winning trophies for my school, I went from the nerdy fa***t who got shoved into the lockers to "the cool guy with the shades and the black clothes". People who previously had been so awful to me now cheered me on and gave me the thumbs up in the school hallways...

It was so strange, I mean, I had the same heart before I started winning trophies, why wasn't I loved for that?

Yeah, thats the sad thing about teenage social things. Whenever i got picked for a football team, they'd automatically assume I'd suck because I was quiet - and were surprised that I wasn't, then suddenly they were nice to me, lol.

I always always got picked last for teams (when i was forced to be in that situation, i never tried to join in voluntarily), and i was generally pretty awful at sports anyway so I suppose it wasn't just down to not being liked as a person (tho that was a factor too). From this thread it loks like it might be a better question to ask who wasn't picked last!

Most times, I was the last or among the last. Since we were usually playing at a park, I'd use that opportunity to wander away and go play by myself, since no one there seemed to want me there anyways. I got in trouble for it, but I didn't care, because at least it was better than having things thrown at me or having to pointlessly run around for an hour and feel like I was going to pass out in the heat. Thankfully at the end of middle school, I transferred to a school that was so desperate for admissions that they let me skip P.E. as long as I'd get "outside physical exercise."

I was always picked last. Not because my skills were "bad", but because my peers hated me. 'sigh' I waited patiently till all the other kids went, only to build a routine of walking out of the line and back to the rear of it. No play time for sports. Turns out it didn't suit me anyway.