Team Sports

Taking part in team sports can greatly benefit your physical and mental wellbeing. 

Team sports benefits

1. Physical Health – moving around a lot and participating in active mobile activities naturally improves your fitness
2. Mental Wellbeing – can reduce stress and anxiety, boost self-confidence, improve resilience and boost happiness 
3. Communication skills – working together in high stress environments helps improve communication skills
4. Build friendships and a sense of belonging – team sports helps you meet new people, build friendships, feel connected to a community and develop a support network
5. Encourages leadership and growth – leading a team can help you develop leadership skills, discipline and commitment, responsibility and accountability and confidence in challenging situations

Find out more Find local activities and clubs across Oxfordshire to get involved with. 

Types of team sports

These are all examples of team sports that anyone can participate in and enjoy. They are all easy to join and are highly available.

1. Basketball
2. Football
3. Cricket 
4. Rugby
5. Netball

How to get into team sports in Oxfordshire 

There are lots of ways to get into clubs in Oxfordshire, here are some of the ways how:

• Activities Oxfordshire is a website which lists hundreds of different team sport clubs 
• Leisure centres run beginner leagues, social lessons and just casual sports for you to get into it 
• Place of learning - ask about activities at your school, college or place of learning

Information page written by an OXME Work Experience Student.