Although competitive, the sport teaches team work, the spirit of the game, and honesty.

Major sports taught at the school include rugby, cricket, tennis, hockey, athletics and swimming.

Perhaps most important, sports teaches young people that losing is not the end of the world.

Along the way he created a school-based group mentoring program that uses sports to teach young people how to reach goals in academics and life.

But disappointments are endemic to competition, and learning to roll with them is an important lesson sports can teach.

The program uses sports to teach physics, general science and math.

Maybe this is the most important lessons sports teaches you, and these teenage girls should be proud of what they have achieved.

Apart from developing physical fitness, sport and games can also teach vital social skills.

Girls deserve the same chances as boys to learn the lessons that sports teach in discipline, teamwork and setting goals.

If organized sports teach any lessons about life, the most important is about accepting defeat with grace.