County Project: Sports and Fitness

Description: Learn more about your favorite sport or athlete and make a poster. Fill it with fun facts, pictures, and anything else that you find that is interesting about that sport. Like old sports? Look one up and do a project on that!  See the “4-H Poster and Notebook Requirements” section for more information.

State Fair Entries: None

Exhibit Guidelines:

1. Exhibit a poster of a sport. It may include conditioning required, equipment needed and pictures or drawings of the sport; or
2. Exhibit a poster of a sport. Explain safety issues and equipment or rules used for safety, fitness requirements, and pictures or drawings of this sport.

Level B (grades 5-6), choose one:

1. Exhibit a poster on history of a sport. It may include historical rule changes, historical figures, etc. and can be same sport as previous years; or
2. Exhibit a poster about a famous person in a sport.

1. Exhibit a poster on your participation in a sport. Include pictures and explain how this sport has affected your life. Include conditioning requirements;
2. Exhibit a poster on a famous person currently in a sport. It may include statistics, honors, team affiliations, pictures or drawings of this person, names of figures in the past who played this position, etc. It must be a different person from previous years; or 
3. Exhibit a poster on a person who invented a sport. Include pictures if possible.

1. Exhibit a poster on the lifestyle an athlete should maintain to remain competitive. It may include topics such as nutrition, conditioning, drug abuse, etc.;
2. Exhibit a poster on a present or past sports figure and a description of his/her career. It must be a different person and sport each year; or
3. Exhibit a poster on a major rule change for a sport from an elementary to professional level, e.g. Little League to professional baseball.