Nope... no one on my team likes to shower together. They all go straight to the dining hall after a run then shower at their dorm after. The one or two guys that do decide to shower, shower with shorts... It sucks, I wish I could feel that bondman-ship on my team. There all too scared & insecure it sucks
Such weak sauce wrote:
So the media tells me that the Millennials constantly watch porn on their phones, and yet, these kids are afraid to take a shower with their teammates?
What are you guys afraid of? Your teammates, some of them will be your best friends for life, and you are afraid to take a post-workout shower with them? It's just anatomy, your best friends aren't going to rape you.
We used to have a yearly naked race around campus--pretty sure we left all our PRs out there, trying not to get caught buy UPD. Guess those days are over--you kids are afraid of EVERYTHING!!!
Not true. My team takes team showers as a respected tradition. Every friday after practice and before team dinner we choose a different sport to play. We've played dodgeball, football, volleyball, soccer, etc and it never gets weird. This is a good way to bond as a team and get the freshmen accustomed to showering with others. Generation Z for the win!!!!
This is how the SJU team does it
Of course. As a prelude and postscript to the team orgy.
Everyone showered after every run. Naked obviously. Usually a little awkward for frosh for maybe the first week then it was totally fine. This was at a D1 P5 school.
My friend went to a D2 school so they didn't have their own locker room. They all had practice, then went to dinner smelling horribly then went back to their dorms to shower.
My guess is its based on school to school and the amenities offered.
New School wrote:
Do college teams shower together? Are they in shorts or naked? Nobody used the showers at my high school.
Do athletes at the Olympic village shower together. Does Usain bolt Shower with Justin Gatland?
Our D3 team showers together, both men and women (not together, just both teams do it). Some kids choose not to and those of us that shower together definitely think it's weird that they don't, but no one is given a hard time for it. Also not everyone is in the shower at the same time because we have different workouts that take different time, more so in track than in XC.
We also play music really loudly and occasionally we turn off all of the lights and scare the fvck out of each other. But you have to be sure that you aren't touching someone's dick. It's also weird to look at someone's dick, if you need for your own curiosity make sure they are looking away. It's really not that interesting, I would recommend just not looking.
Other shenanigans include fake boxing each other, everyone giving a weird stare to a person who drops the soap, dancing so your junk swings around and messing around with one of those skinny rods that you mark your driveway with in the snow.
It was a little weird for me the first few days but after that it was normal. Whatever you do, as a freshman, don't make it weird, if you choose not to shower with the team then don't mention it. They know you feel uncomfortable. I would say no matter how weird it feels showering naked, just do it, and if after a week it still feels uncomfortable, the stop.
Also, if you have guys with lots of different mileages, like my team, some guys may run 5 miles while other guys run 9 miles. So you usually end up showering with who you run with. Almost all of the freshman that come into our program ran low mileage in high school and our coach usually has them get up to 45-50 and they all end up doing pretty much every run/workout together, so most freshman are in the shower at the same time.
You will be fine. Showering is the least of your worries as a college freshman.
We do. I identify as a woman though so I get to shower with the ladies team. I get the occasional woodie but they don't seem to mind.
In high school we used to always shower together. Occasionally some guys would take pictures and post them in the school hall ways. Not cool at all. I am not very big downtown and the picture was a little humiliating. I decided to become a girl.
I'm was number 1 on a top 5 d1 team and NONE of us showered together. We worked out then went our separate ways. While you geeks were showering together we were putting in d1 national champion caliber training followed by all academic studying. Asleep by 9pm, up at 5:45 for 6am practice. All of us 4.0 GPA in STEM Majors.
knower of things2 wrote:
In high school we used to always shower together. Occasionally some guys would take pictures and post them in the school hall ways. Not cool at all. I am not very big downtown and the picture was a little humiliating. I decided to become a girl.
and this is how caster started.....
knower of things2 wrote:
I am not very big downtown I decided to become a girl.
With the biggest clit in town.
We always kept our tights on in the shower. Total pain getting our shorts off from underneath them though.
No Homo wrote:
Wow, group showering in shorts...unbelievable.
Now I understand why so many HS runners wear half tights under regular shorts on a hot day. Never understood that before; now I do.
At Penn State, this was mandatory. Coach Sandusky then used to inspect your taint for cleanliness. He preferred the tongue test.
10/10.
Best trolling in quite a while. My hat is off (but my shorts are on!) to the OP.
prettyconfused wrote:
As a recently graduated D1 runner I'm pretty blown away to know there are schools where teams DON'T shower together... pretty sure everyone above the age of 14 knows that's standard locker room procedure
Same. It's not even talked about at my school. It just makes the most sense with everyone's schedule to shower after practice in the locker room. Most of the time you want to go eat or study after practice and you don't want to be sweaty for that.
Questions for guys who served in the military:
Did you ever have to shower in an open or shared shower? If so, did you wear shorts so other guys wouldn't see your penis?
I'm going to guess that any guy who served just took their damn shower when they had an opportunity. It's what you do. Boys worry about things like this. Men don't.
We used to get a nice group shower on until they built the new athletic facility and introduced single stalls. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?? How am I gonna soap up with my boys now? That's why we've implemented a strict no curtain policy... But it's not quite the same....
d3 man wrote:
Nope... no one on my team likes to shower together. They all go straight to the dining hall after a run then shower at their dorm after. The one or two guys that do decide to shower, shower with shorts... It sucks, I wish I could feel that bondman-ship on my team. There all too scared & insecure it sucks
Well, our college had open showers at the dorms, just like the locker room. I was much more comfortable showering with teammates than dormies I barely knew.