Boost your sports section with these 100 feature ideas

Written by Marketing Staff

Updated by Walsworth Yearbooks

The sports section of your yearbook will be some of the most fertile ground for interesting feature stories. Are you currently stuck and looking for sports story ideas?

Take a look at the list below and see if you can find a sports feature idea that makes sense for your school and applies to your yearbook.

Linemen, backs
Practice
Managers
Trainers
Sophomore slump
Popular lingo
Drag day
Chain gang
Workers behind the scene run clock, announcers, camera people, concession workers
Referees
Loyal fans
Coaches – new ones, fathers/son
School alum as coach
Down and dirty
Following in big brother or sister’s footsteps
Nicknames – printable ones
Subs: come off the bench
Team leaders
Bumper stickers
Passing time activities
Great wins
Heartbreaking losses
Uniforms
Cost of equipment
Shoes
Kicking game
Specialty teams or positions
Superstitions
Pre-game routines
Motivation – stars on helmets, etc.
Locker room during halftime
Being on scout team
Lettering
Film watching – the study of an opponent
Memorable plays
Travel to away games
Bus breakdowns
Ball boys
Making the grade
Athletic study halls
Team size – up, down, why
New teams
New facilities
Freshmen or B-teams
student car culture
Customs and traditions
Pep talks
Parents – fathers who played now watching sons
Anniversaries – people, places
Field court maintenance
Weight room training
Conditioning drills
Fitness, endurance
Big goals, little goals
Improvements in the game
New equipment
Changes in the game, rules
Rivals
Cannon
Discipline
Cover all the bases
Rain delays
Par for the course
Sudden death
Home run champion
Ladies first
Net works
Faculty quirks
What people collect
Spike it
Most valuable player
Meet of champs
High point award
Last second shot
Changes in the conference
Injuries
A so-so season – value to players, what they learned
Tardy/absence excuses
Solo sports – hunting, fishing, rodeo
Coming off the bench to play in an important game for an injured starter
Bloopers
Heroes
Bonfires
Sharing time in gym
What makes a leader
Sunday practices
College prospects