High School Is A Time Of Great Fun

Almost all student athletes get butterflies before that Friday night football game, before the fans get to watch them compete, or even the to get the ability to practice. Many argue that high school sports are a distraction in the classroom or even cause career ending injuries. There are many different scenarios that prove that high school sports do the exact opposite of those. When it comes to high school sports, it keeps students fit, boosts a student’s academic performance, and enhances a student’s self-esteem. High school sports are very beneficial and for anyone who is looking to take on a new challenge to take on.

As parents, we are staunch believers of the educational value high school presents, and the excitements youth sports bring us. However, most of us are to blame, behind the bright basketball court lights lie an ugly underbelly, a monstrous façade called politics. During the championship seasons, we’ve heard and even seen tales of

When junior year ended last summer, I felt like I knew exactly what was coming my way-- after all, I watched three different groups of my friends go through senior years of their own. It was finally my turn to experience senior year, something it seemed I had known about for years, and I felt like senior year would be easygoing and uneventful. Now, it has taken just a few short months to realize how incorrect I was. If senior year has taught me anything, it is that one never really knows what comes next for them, even if they have a good idea. The monumental highs, as well as the deepest of lows, have kept me on my toes throughout my senior year.

The ability to play a high school sport is the one of the most exhilarating and exciting experiences one may encounter in their entire lifetime. Whether it be scoring a goal against a crosstown rival or shooting a buzzer beater, the adrenaline that one experiences in front of boisterous student fan sections is unmatched. However, this feeling and ability to play can all be taken away instantly.

High school football over the years has become a huge spectacle lets just talk about the DWF area or we can even get smaller to make a point if you made a 25 mile radius these local high school teams play at the Star (seats 12,000), Allen stadium (seats 18,000 cost 60 million), and McKinney’s new stadium (seats 12,000 costs 69.9 million). This is just high school football these young kids playing under tremendous pressure from the start. The pressure to play high school football is immense, there are so many media outlets for these kids, and they get coverage from what it seems like all the time during the season, yet this is all just considered a recreational activity I think it has become more than that now. The pressure for coaches is high as well dealing with parents, board members, keeping up with classes as a teacher, and oh you also have to win since football is a performance-based business (forewarning this will be said a lot). For example I will refer to Boobie Miles from Friday Night Lights for one final point. Boobie knew if he did not make it in football there was nothing special for him. That is why when he got hurt he still wanted to play, because he knew that’s all he had. That is a lot of pressure for a 16-18 year to handle, and if they are not up for it they crack.

Growing up in a rural community, I have noticed how sports have impacted the people of a community and unified the members of a team. Sports have become apart of everyday life for many Americans, and many high school kids, like myself, take part in the playing of a sport. However, sports have become much more complex. Along with practices, student-athletes are now required to dedicate many more hours of their day to sports, and many do not have enough time to do other activities such as homework. Also, sports have become increasingly dangerous, and more athletes are sustaining injuries such as concussions. In some American high schools, sports have become more important than academics. Knowing that students have huge workloads with hours of homework every night, schools should consider all their options to help their students succeed even if that means banning sports.

It’s Friday night the timer is ticking the whole school cheering for your team, your body aching and exhausted from pep rallies all day. The lights glistening. There are three seconds left you make the winning touchdown and you score. You won the championship for your team. Do you want all of these memorable times taken away? Schools need to invest into their sports programs like never before. Schools should not get rid of sports because sports relieve stress, they improve physical and academic health, and kids can afford school sports since club sports are more

Once you’ve been in school for nearly 12 years of your life you think you know all of the tricks to conquering the school year. When a problem arises you think you know the easy way out of it or the perfect way to avoid it. Some kids probably believe that as you continue on through your education these problems will just simply decrease. As a junior in high school, I’ve come to find that that assumption couldn’t be more false. High school came as a scare to me and I felt that I was the only one going through those typical teenage problems; however, after reading How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough, I began to gain some of my confidence back.

“A loud and spirited crowd has the potential to alter the result of a game” (Benavidez). Almost every sport’s fan in the world would agree. A large crowd is one thing, but a large crowd who is passionately cheering on their team plays a crucial role in sporting events. When asked the question on how school spirit affects his team’s performance, Seth Mcgowen responded, “It increases the morale of the player. When we see there’s a big crowd there cheering us on, we feel like we have to do better so that we don’t let them down. If they’re shouting my name and cheering for me personally, it makes me step up my performance and do something great.” Key words in Mcgowen’s response are “cheering us on” (Benavidez). Mcgowen said an enormous crowd is not what encourages the team, but an enormous crowd that cheers does. Former Tupelo High School basketball coach Jerry Lee Clayton preached the importance of having school spirit and used to tell his players, “A school without spirit is nothing, but a school with spirit has the power to do miraculous things.” Athletes want school spirit from their town and school because they have the chance to feel an emotional connection with the fans. What team wants to compete for a school that does not support them, but all teams want to compete for a school that gives them full support. School spirit has the power to affect a team’s performance, and that is a benefit almost everyone can

“There’s a freshman! Let’s stuff him in the trashcan!” There are so many new things that you learn during your first year of high school. These new things that you learn will either affect you or not affect you the slightest bit. When you don’t quite understand the new things you learn ask an upperclassman they have already been through what you are experiencing.

On September 18, 2015 there was a football game at The King’s Academy High School in Sunnyvale California. Many of the men and women in attendance were there to support either a child, sibling, or classmate as they played their second game of the season. What typically goes on at these games is that the players play the game while the spectators watch and cheer for their team. In addition to the players and spectators, there are also coaches and officials who's job is to make sure that the players run the plays correctly and do not break any rules in the process. Volunteers are often standing at the gates taking tickets and in the snack bar area cooking food for people in attendance to buy. Football plays an important role to all of them and is a big part of the

As the students on the football field are working on passes and touchdowns, they are wearing tattered old jerseys. With their worndown helmets, the coach is complaining about the bad conditions the players are going through. Yet, the school would not recognize the remarks and decides to keep on going. The article, “Yes! It’s Time to Scale Back,” by Amanda Ripley, shares the idea that schools should not have sports teams. On the contrary, “No! Sports Are More Important Than Ever,” by Tim O'Shei explains that school sports should continue and even recommended to attend to. Even though school sports can be beneficial to students; genuinely, schools sports needs to take a step back for the better.

When I first arrived at this school, I knew two people. Two. And I was very scared. One of the qualities of this school that enchants me the most is the caring, spirited mentality of every single person in this building. At lunch on the very first day, I didn’t know where to sit. I ended up sitting at a table with some Sophomores, and one of the people asked me to leave just because I was a Freshman. There was no hesitation by another one of the girls at the table to defend me and scold the other girl for acting that way. That positive, kind attitude is what needs to be continued and proudly displayed as the new Freshman class enters our school. The Freshman, as products

A recent study shows that more than 7.6 million students in 2010-2011 played high school sports during the school year. US News estimates about 55.5% of high school students participate in a sport. With this in mind, one would think that there are no problems involving high school sports. When in fact, the are many problems with high school sports that aren’t apparent to everyone. Some of these problems include; politics, money, and consideration.

How do you recollect high-school? Did your school focus highly on sports or academics? Some countries like Poland have thoroughly dispensed sports in high school and in reciprocation, student's test scores have astronomically amended and academic achievement is at an all time high. This makes some people believe that high school sports are detrimental to the cognition environment and obstructs the facility of students. However, sports in high-school are a great implement for students to learn life edifications that most classes cannot edify themselves, consequently, sports must be kept as a high-school activity for students to participate in. Across the U.S, proximately 60 percent of all high students play on a school-sponsored sports team, according to the Centers