Practicing a sport, including individual sport, can facilitate the creation of friendships. Imagine you are a new girl or boy in town and you want to make new friends. It would be difficult to do this in class because during the thirty to forty-five minute class, teachers spend most of their time teaching the lesson, so students are not able to communicate with each other. When the teacher provides students with group activities, seventy-five percent of the time, the group members will not meet in any of their other classes. It's different if students play sports because coaches require athletes to communicate with each other. Practices typically last two hours and five days a week. The pre-game dinner, bus rides and even being on the bench are places where athletes get to know each other more and on a personal level. It's impossible not to become friends after spending a lot of time together. Individual sports like golf, tennis and athletics can also provide an opportunity to make friends. For example, I ran track all four years of high school and throughout that experience, I made not only friends from my school, but also from my opponent.