Math vs Sports Practice

I first read about this on Fawn's blog:  Fawn Nguyen's Blog in response to Dan Meyer's response to Sal Khan's post about math practice vs wrestling.  She did a little survey, so I did a little survey.  I surveyed my Accelerated Algebra I class (freshmen) and my Honors Algebra II classes (sophomores).

Here is what happened:

Some of their explanations included:
 Girls who picked math:

• Math is year round
• I am not good at sports, so I will pick math
• Math is easier
• I love repetition

Boys who picked math:

• School comes before sports
• I am not athletic, so math
• I want to be successful and I know I will need math

Girls who picked sports:

• Math is too repetitive
• Sports are interactive and interesting
• You can work towards results you can see
• Sports is doing, math is thinking

Boys who picked sports:

• Sports are social 
• Sports are more fun.  
• You are outside, active, healthy.
• I rather do hard physical vs hard mental exercising (from a freshman)
• I feel pressure at math but at sports I can be me

NOTE:  I will try to get kids more active.  Now, how to do it.