Benefits Of Being A Multi-Sport Athlete

The benefits of sports participation have been studied during the last few years. Sports participation has also long been thought to provide a social environment that fosters basic values such as fair play, competiveness, and achievement (Pate, Trost, Levin & Dowda, 2000). Furthermore, Pate et al. (2000) conclude that in the most populous demographic subgroups of United States high school students, sports participation is associated with multiple positive health behaviors. This trend was most striking for white females and white males, among whom sports participation was significantly associated with numerous positive healthy behaviors and almost no negative health behaviors. African American and Hispanic students had fewer associations with positive health behaviors, and even some association with negative behaviors were observed. Sports has been a important key to high schools students get involved on a social environment that can cause very positive healthy behaviors among the youth. Pate et al. (2000) continue to observe that school and community sports programs have the potential to help youth establish lifelong healthy physical activity patterns.

Being passionate about a sport is very important, we all need to have a hobby outside of school to keep us going. But sometimes, these extracurriculars can get in the way of school, and school should always come first. being a student athlete is very challenging, but if you buckle down and focus, dealing with both school, and a sport can be very beneficial and help you succeed in the future.

Academic success is important for both high school and college athletes. To be eligible to participate, athletes must maintain a certain GPA. Student athletes that don’t make school a priority, not only miss out on playing time, but also fail to prepare themselves for the next step in their life. For high school athletes, that means prepare for college while for college athlete, it means preparing to enter the workforce. Although, both high school and

As sports sign-ups sneak up every year, many parents find themselves wondering, how many sports should my young child be playing? Sports specialization is defined as “intense, year round training in a single sport with the exclusion of other sports” (Jayanthi). This concept of devoting one’s career to a single sport from a very young age in order to reach higher physical success in the long run has always been around, but recently it has been drawing an increasing amount of attention. The media places great emphasis on athletics as a whole, which for some, means working towards a luring Division One collegiate scholarship. Others are driven by the miniscule possibility of playing at the professional level. More often than not, this results in unnecessary stress and heartbreak (Committee on Sports). Along with the psychological disadvantages of specializing in only one sport, young athletes are oftentimes the victims of overtraining, overuse injuries, and other negative effects on the growing body (Jayanthi). Sports specialization is not beneficial to young children and poses multiple potential risks to the mind and body.

“Playing with Pain,” by Michelle Crouch in December, 2016, teaches us that focusing too much on one sport is not very good. Studies show that specializing in one sport actually has the opposite effect of what people think or say about it. Crouch write in the article about the experiences of Kellen Sillanpaa, a young athlete. The central idea is that if a person specializes in only one sport, there could be consequences. Some of the consequences are having pains, not being able to play a sport or do normal activities, and having a lower chance of success later in life.

Many would not even consider being able to play 2 sports in college. Too much practice and not enough time is what some excuses are to being on two collegiate athletic teams. There is one girl at the University of West Alabama who is breaking the mold on dual-sport athletes.

College was a dream that was made possible by playing more than one sport. College is an easy transition for these athletes because it’s not that much different from their high school lifestyle. The routine is easier for them, they can manage their time with homework, practices and a social life at a stress free cost because of their time management skills. In the early stages of an athlete’s recruitment, many coaches are drawn to them because of their multi-sport abilities. Making friends comes easy to those athletes and they have the ability to become close to all of your new teammates and with the coaching staff. Athletes can go into this season ready to play, healthy body at hand, and fully confident in their success in this year. This was all possible because they played multiple sports. It laid down the path to their dream. And like everyone else they did everything possible to help them achieve

Should college athletes be paid or do they have enough compensation? There has been controversy within the NCCA, debating whether college athletes deserve compensation for their play or if a free education is enough for them as amateurs. Most of the people supporting the idea of college athletes being paid are former/current players, on the other hand the people who don’t want them to be paid are usually fans that enjoy the traditional collegiate sports atmosphere and don’t want the environment to be altered. There is some good reasoning on both sides of the argument in support of their ideals. Supporters of college athletes being paid claim that they deserve to be paid as compensation for their hard work and for the privileges they have

Playing a high school sport also gave me the opportunity for college. It gives teens that may not be as privileged as others who are book smart and scoring 1900’s and 30’s on the SAT and ACT a chance to go to a great college and get a fantastic education. Playing a sport in college will give that student great time management skills and learn how to balance schoolwork with sports. Some athletes could be as lucky as to go on and play professionally. It also helps with jobs and landing that dream career you’ve always

During my freshmen year in Oroville High School the winter sports basketball and wrestling were about to start. I kept asking myself “Agh, why do both of the sports I want to play have to be at the same time?” After the second week of school passed by since the fall sports started, some of my friends in basketball kept telling me, “You should play basketball because you got a fine arm.”

While specializing in sports has increased in young athletes, we are now learning more about the side effects of specializing. The research states that in the United States, there is nearly 72% of school-aged youth that participated in one organized sports team or club. Out of 1200 youth athletes, there was 30% of young athletes that reported that they are specialized in a single sport (Myer et.al 66). In the United States the increase in organized sports as increased from children 6 years and younger starting at 9% in 1997 to 12% in 2008. At the High school level, there has been an increase in sports specialization (Jayanthi 251). Although specializing in a sport may allow an athlete to be strong in that sport, it also can hurt athletes that specializing in a sport.

When most students think of the weekend, they think about sleeping in until noon and relaxing all day whether it be at the beach or just at home. Being an athlete, however, weekends are the exact opposite of sleeping in and having leisure time. Weekends for me usually start by being jolted awake by the sound of my alarm clock at five-thirty in the morning so I can begin packing my backpack with the things necessary for spending the entire day at a sports park. This may seem unpleasant and difficult to do, but when you simply love what you're doing, you learn focus on the positives rather than the negatives. Although I’ve been a multiple sport athlete from a young age, I didn't pick up on this positive mentality until my junior year in high

Looking back at your journey as an athlete is a significant step. At times, athletes have played a sport since they were young and begin to associate who they are with the sport they are playing. Mastering the ability to juggle both school and athletics is a habit that very few have been able to do, but when done right, the benefits are endless.

To most athletes, an injury is something they don’t even think about until it happens. Sometimes it could mean missing a couple plays or a whole season. Either way, injuries are something that usually does not bring joy to athletes and those around them. This is where my story is unique. In my athletic career leading up to my freshman year, I had been a fairly healthy kid from an injury standpoint. I could never have guessed that one of the worst injuries an athlete can go through would happen to me. I blew out my left knee.

Multiple students at Monticello Trails Middle School who play sports have superior grades, compared to the students who don’t play any sports. If you play a sport it increases your chances of getting a paid scholarship. Evidence shows that playing multiple sports will improve kids grades as long as you put loads of work into keeping your grades in the a and b range (How). If you don’t have at