Do teams shower together in college?

I didn't know so many teams showered after practice, wow. We started practice at the athletic facility, which had a locker room and showers, but everyone lived within like a mile of there, so they ran home. I remember one or two commuters would drive. No one was desperate to get dinner right after practice as you prob had at least an hour to get dinner before the dining hall closed. This seems strange to me, why not save time and just run back to the dorm instead of showering then having to carry your stinky sweaty clothes back at a walk.

What did you guys do when you did trail runs, like drove out to a trail for the weekend long run?

is this really a question? we shower together in club sports all the time. Even in school sports we showered together. and you should really shower naked and not with clothes on

New School wrote:

Do college teams shower together? Are they in shorts or naked? Nobody used the showers at my high school.

Of course. But only with woman on my team.

When I saw this thread, I knew it would be gold. I really like the Canova threads, but this is Probably the funniest thing I've seen yet.....

A little background. I've pretty much run roads from the start (14yo) and road racing rarely has anything to do with schools. In HS we had a club (basically just the same shirt worn by several of us at races) but this club, of course, had no locker room or 'gang shower'. We all just went back to parents or wherever we lived. No interest or attempt to run NCAA (strange, perhaps for the current college generation).

Bottom line: no team, no team showers, no prior knowledge of this topic at all.

So my question:

I hear that your generation have full, intact units. No Rabbi, doctor, or Samurai has altered it. True?

23 and circumcised. Docs said no way the foreskin could keep up with the growth. Definitely made some guys of my college team a little nervous. Word got out to the girls team and I had some very very fun end of season parties

Our team showers everyday after practice. In fact we have two possible showers to go to: our personal team shower and the general admission shower.

Some of my teammates make fun of me for it, but I prefer to bathe in the general admission shower. You get to meet and interact with new people of all ages ;)

My team didn't do it but and others did and thought it was perfectly normal.

When we had to do it on road trips I didn't like it. My friends at teams that did it, said you get used to it real quickly and it's normal to be self conscious and/or play bizarre games.

My question is why don't they just have individual stalls like at most private lockerrooms. This is 2016, why do we need to have one big shower where we all have to look at each others d****?

Maybe I'm self conscious. I was a late bloomer and had to do the group shower in high school one or two times and felt like it was the end of the world.

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lizard2 wrote:

This is 2016, why do we need to have one big shower where we all have to look at each others d****?

Maybe I'm self conscious. I was a late bloomer and had to do the group shower in high school one or two times and felt like it was the end of the world.

"Maybe I'm self conscious" - You are, not only didn't you want to look at them, you didn't want to write the 'd' either.

PS, just in case you're not being that self conscious, you are allowed to say dicks on LR.

showering together in college is a vital part of the team bonding experience.

not all did it. some felt it was gay. its a real sad reflection on the state of male friendships in our society.

you finish practice with the men who are like your brothers, and you all strip yourselves bare, hiding nothing from each other, feel the hot water, debrief from the days workout, and shoot the shit.

its a privilege, and quite frankly a level of bonding that those who didnt participate in team sports will likely never experience.

I was the first to go through puberty in my class and we used to shower after rugby and at school camps. All of the guys in my class got jealous that mine was bigger and I had pubes, or as they called it "huddas". Some of the girls also found out since they told them.

Also first to get a hairy chest and start going bald. Benefits of too much testosterone I guess.

At high school at around 15 years old, everyone got shy though. The biggest bully in class commented to our PE (physical education) teacher "what if someone gets excited". Should have used that against him.

Have to say a hot shower does help with any issues from shrinkage you might experience in the change room though. So does help to make you feel more manly compared to others. Just be careful not to think any dirty thoughts whilst having the shower.

it is almost perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gupSPkC_nm0

The game is called Soapball and the rules are quite simple. It is football with a bar of soap. Generally speaking, you will have teams of 4, maybe 5 young steeds. The positions are: center, quarterback, and wide receiver. There is generally no runningback position, although teams with more advanced playbooks may call an end around or a reverse every now and then--plays in which the action occurs in the backfield. The center bends down, QB gets his hands below the center and calls hike, and the play begins. On defense you will generally have 3 in the secondary and one pressuring the QB (assuming you are going 4 studs to a squad). That's basically it for the rulebook. No first downs of course. 4 tries to score otherwise you lose the ball.

In terms of strategy, some difficulties are obvious. The most obvious difficulty being the slippery bar of soap you use for a ball. There is one strategy I have found works best. Rather than trying to catch the soapball with two hands like you would be taught in football, allow the ball to come into your chest and try to gently cradle it there with your hands. 90% of offensive plays are deep shots to the endzone, so mastering the catch is essential to rising among the crop until you reach the cream. On defense, your main goal is to prevent the offense from entering your endzone with the ball. So there is a lot more slapping the ball down to prevent successful passes. Since the ball is so hard to catch, going for interceptions is generally not ideal. Advanced defenses will tag team a pass--one guy will go up and bat the ball with his hand, guiding it towards a teammate, and the teammate will secure the ball comfortably in his chest. It is said that this strategy utilized by the Seahawks' Richard Sherman was inspired by his viewing a Soapball scrimmage in the Stanford locker room showers.

A bit about the game's history. Many schools claim creation of the game, and its roots are not fully known to this day. What we do know, for a fact, is the game derived in the northeast among their D3 contingent. Obviously a game this brilliant could only be created by the brilliant minds of D3 New England. It is said the Tufts/Brandeis Soapball rivalry predates The Israeli Declaration of Independence. Although the game's roots are in D3 New England, it has spread far and wide. Last year, 73 college sports conferences participated in the Inter-Conference Championships, which are--for all intents and purposes--the National Championships.

As for what your role will be as an incoming freshman, that depends on the team. I have seen different team-building strategies for recreational Soapball. Those teams are dependent on the overall size of the XC team and the preferences of the senior class. Some teams just establish captains and pick away, and the teams remain intact from year to year, while only incoming freshmen are drafted. Other schools establish what is referred to as "Broadway Squads." This is when you only have 4-man teams and each team has one representative from every class--freshman, sophomore, junior, senior. It is a good way to establish inter-class camaraderie. Broadway Squads are usually fluid from year to year. On the first day of practice, you can expect to be lined up naked among your fellow classmates and drafted onto a team. I have heard rumors that MIT uses this opportunity for Harry Potter role playing by introducing a sorting hat to the mix. Make sure your posture is great on draft day--you never know who's looking.

That is about all the information I have for now. Good luck, and play hard.

--JHA, Rec-League Soapball MVP, '10, '11

We used to shower together. At first it was awkward. But after a while, we got used to soaping each other and massaging the tiredness out of each other's glistening bodies. Our eyes would meet, a kiss would be shared and the next you knew we'd be spit-roasting the slowest guy on the tempo run that day.

No homo, though.

The Democrats are working on a bill to outlaw group showers. This will solve the problem and we will all be happier.

My school is building a new locker room with individual showers instead of the group shower dynamic we all know and love. We will likely boycott the new locker room.

Dicks out for the Boiiz wrote:

My school is building a new locker room with individual showers instead of the group shower dynamic we all know and love. We will likely boycott the new locker room.

You realize that secure Europeans are reading this thread and either laughing, or shaking their head.

At my D1 P5 school we shared a locker room with the baseball, tennis, and wrestling teams. Everyone used the group showers except the tennis team. The only time it got weird was when the wrestling team showered. They were not at all shy about jumping on each other, squirting soap, etc. I guess when you spend hours a day wrestling with other dudes you become pretty familiar with your teammates.

Yeah, we all usually showered together. Naked. You're in college now, everyone looks the same. Well, for the most part.