text: Finally, extracurricular activities help you be more responsible by having to work on them and progress at them. Instead, of doing nothing you can be writing about the field hockey team at school or taking pictures for the yearbook. These activities are doing something good for your future. Sports make you have the inspiration to get up and practice. You won't be lazy anymore, now you have something to take care of. They are important because they really do help you be ther best you. However, they should never get in they way of doing school.