A LOT of stereotyping here. Sure, there are/were girls like that but there were plenty of others. In my experience, girls liked (or even loved) guys who were confident, cocky, and even a little arrogant. I was in athletics but quit all but baseball to focus on HS debate. By my senior year, I was pretty decent. The first tournament of the year, we lost in the final round to a really good team. During the round, I noticed a girl in the back of the room watching. She came up to me after we lost the round and said, “hey, sorry you lost but you did REALLY good!” I said thanks but turned away toward another matter.
A week or two later, we ended up winning a tournament and during the semifinal and final round, she was there again. Our competition was not as good that week and we won handily. I had developed a subtle cockiness — my dad thought I was too full of myself and he was right — that kind of came out when I was doing something I was good at. Anyway, after we won, she came up and we talked. She was from some school across town but gave me her phone number and we ended up dating for a while. I lost track of her and now don’t even recall her last name, so I can’t look her up on facebook or something. But I think she was attracted to a little arrogance and it wasn’t until a year or two later, when I wasn’t hitting JuCo pitching very well, that I came back down to earth!
I’m pretty confident that she eventually matured as well. I had fun in HS and accomplished quite a bit, but it was by no means my best days. It shouldn’t be yours either.
Nice growing up story...and here you are as a FREEPER as well!