Student Athlete Motivation Motivation is the foundation of all athletic effort and compliment or simply defined as the ability to initiate and persist at a task (Taylor). All athletes at all levels have their own motivation. They all have that will that pushes them to complete a task. There are also athletes that have low motivations but still participate. Athletes are usually in school unless they play at a professional level, the ones that are not professional are student athletes. Student athletes…

SAA that all college student athletes begin and remain amateur athletes while attending college. Payment for college athletes should be scholarships that can include tuition, books, dorm accommodations, meal on campus or while traveling. Anything above this should be considered “subsidized” and is considered in violation of the SAA’s governing body. Introduction The SAA (Student Athletic Association) is an organization that was developed to protect and keep all college athletes in an amateur status…

Academics and Student Athletes Student athlete, the ordering of this title is key. The word student comes first, followed by the word athlete. The words are ordered in a way that is supposed to demonstrate the priorities of people who participate in sports. Academics are the first priority and take precedence over athletic commitment. As a child, into early adolescence, the balance between athletics and academics is quite easily achieved. The workload from school is light and practice is usually…

General topic: Increasing Student Success and Retention Title of article: Increasing Student Success and Retention: A Multidimensional Approach Fowler, P. R. & Boylan H. R. (2010). Increasing Student Success and Retention: A Multidimensional Approach. Journal of Developmental Education, 34 (2), 2-10. Guiding questions and concepts Note your responses in this column Summary What was the article about in your words (evaluate abstract when initially reading for this information)? • Nature of paper:…

fair that student athletes have to take physical education in order to graduate. Envision a student who does very well in school and would like to take advanced placement or running start classes in order to better prepare themselves for college. This student, however, cannot take these classes because he or she has to take physical education, a gradation requirement, and does not have the schedule flexibility to fit both classes in. Almost every school in the United States requires students to take…

Research Paper: Fair Compensation for Student-Athletes It’s early fall 2014 and this year’s NCAA collegiate sports season has taken off like a full court press. Dedicated fans of collegiate football and basketball will crowd into stadiums or huddle around their TV to proclaim their allegiance to a school of their choice. Regardless of their declarations, many fans and spectators will be pleased by the seasons end when only a handful of schools are declared the winners and able to clutch one of the…

Student-Athletes: Is a Scholarship Enough? Have you noticed that when you turn on your television during the fall on Saturday afternoon that there is a college football game on about 15 different channels? The popularity of college sports, especially football and basketball, have skyrocketed. During the last decade, college athletics have seen a tremendous increase in revenues from licensing and television revenue. For example, in 2014 CBS paid 800 million dollars for the rights to broadcast…

Sport participation is a significant aspect of life for many female athletes beginning at a young age. With increasing female sport participation, specifically in swimming, understanding the possible implications of their chosen form of training is critical. Over years of training, an athlete generally becomes more elite and focused in one specific sport however the timing of when they choose to do so determines their chosen training pattern. The two most common forms of training are high intensity…

Whether or not student-athletes should be paid has been a hotly debated topic since the 1900s. College athletes spend just as much time, if not more time, practicing and devoting time and energy to sports as they do academics. For this, many athletes are rewarded with scholarship money. However, many people believe it is not enough. Should we pay student-athletes a slice of the wealth or is a full-ride scholarship enough? (Business Insider). What if the athlete gets injured? Where does the money…

Ambidexterity Amongst Students and Athletes MATH 141 (Prof. An) Final Project December 2015 Romeo Ardimento, Lorraine Jabouin, Christopher Kremer, Fiona Macleod Introduction/Background Being Ambidextrous can be quite useful; particularly for athletes and musicians. Many sports require the use of both hands, as do many instruments. For this reason our team decided to determine the difference in ambidexterity, if any, between people who are either athletes or musicians, and individuals who are not…