Editor:

I didn’t play many sports in high school. I was a ballet dancer. I’m British, and I know hardly anything about American sports. I wanted to dance all through high school and then go to a professional ballet school in London. When I was 17 I found myself standing onstage, in costume, in front of a paying audience in a respectable theater, alongside my fellow ballet company dancers. That night, my dream had become reality and on that stage, I cried with joy as I danced, knowing how unbelievable a feeling a human can experience when achieving a goal.

I felt it again this last Friday night as I watched my classmates, live on national television, experience their dreams become reality. I enjoyed my moment in a theater in London in front of about 600 people. The members of the Utes enjoyed theirs on national TV in front of millions.

What little I do remember about sports tournaments and championships as I was growing up was that after every team competed, the top two teams would compete in the final game and a champion would be crowned. The teams would be the two that had fought hardest, trained hardest and gave everything they had, for themselves and the pride of their teams. I saw the Utes become the top team in the nation this season in such a way that no true football or sports fan could deny, and with their wins, plays, points and sheer heart, they became No. 1.

The Utes will not get a trophy saying they are the official “BCS National Champions”8212;they really don’t need one. I am sure sports fans around the nation will agree that the Utes are No. 1. I’m very proud of you guys.

Malcom Clarke,
Junior, English