Persuasive Essay On Sports

There are many fans and parents that like going to games to see their favorite players or kids play and they spend their game time watching their players make baskets or scoring touchdowns. But, there are also those fans that sit in the bleachers game after game whose players never seem make it off the bench. This happens more often in High School sports than college and professional sports. The coaches of any sports team usually put in the best players or maybe they have a favorite player that's the “star” player that gets more time in the game and more practice and help outside the games and practices. Certain players, however, should not get more attention from their coach or coach’s than others.

Many people argue that competitive sports raise numerous amounts of pressure on the youth making them distracted from things such as their education and because it can cause severe injuries, but some people argue that youth should play competitive sports because it teaches major life lessons that can help with many different aspects of their future such as college, getting a job, and many more. Playing competitive sports also improves your physical strength, another physical aspect of playing competitive sports is decreasing your chance of being obese or having disease. If you don't prefer to play competitive sports there are alternative options such as biking or walking to school. In an HT Health article “Sports Seen As Key Weapon in Fighting Teen Obesity” it says that in a study with 1,700 kids, ten percent walked or biked to school 3 ½ days a week,, in the study they found that biking or walking to school lowered the risk of being obese by 33%. I argue that kids should play competitive sports because of the important life skills taught through these sports and the physical benefit of playing sports. In this paper I will explain how communication, time management, and lowering the risk of being obese; supports my claim, “Kids should play competitive sports”

Competitive sports in some cases are becoming very unhealthy for children. Most children would rather play on a losing team than sit on the bench of a winning team. Youth sports are a great idea to get children up and active, as well as improve their social skills. Just like every other thing in life it is important to practice and work hard to achieve success. However it is unhealthy to push for results over the needs or wants of the child. Aside from the mental stress that young athletes may experience from intense training and physical play long lasting injures is now a growing concern. Fact is competitive sports is a double edge sword if done right it is the greatest thing world, but if done wrong it can be very unhealthy for a child.

Sports can be viewed as a learning environment that helps individuals learn life lessons, foster strong work habits and develop core values all the while learning a sport skill. Youth sports that truly benefit young athletes should be structured to emphasize participation more than just competition. Children enjoy a sport more when they are able to have fun (Humpries). Despite many excesses some sport programs still manage to promote important virtues like self- confidence, teamwork, personal responsibility, coping skills, and persistence. Through sports kids can learn to stay organized and learn how to prioritize (Ferguson). Sports enables development of physical skills and increasing proficiency makes kids feel good about themselves. It teaches kids that failure is something to overcome and and not to fear (Meyerhoff 8-9). Youth sports has many aspects that are truly benefiting for children, but these benefits are slowly being clouded by the negatives that are prominent in today's youth sports.

High school athletics are important to athletes that eat, sleep, and even dream sports. This is awesome for anyone that loves and has a passion for the game. What happens after a couple years of high school athletics if a player is really good at what they do? These athletes will start getting offers from colleges and if they are good enough then they may get offers from the NBA.

In the past 30 years, the direction of sports within the youth has drastically changed. In the past, young athletes aimed to play in several sports. Now, athletes focus themselves in one single sport and year-round extensive training has been encouraged by most adults in a young athlete’s life whether they are a parent or a coach. Allowing the youth to participate in sports is frequently considered “a great way to develop leadership skills” and “an appreciation for individual and team accomplishments” (Sailor). Along with the rise of Sport Specialization, concerns pertaining to a child’s physical and psychological health have begun to increase as well. Early Sport Specialization may lead to greater risks in a child’s life such as injuries,

I’ve never been the type to have been interested in our basketball team, any other sports offered at my school, or even gym classes. During my time in middle school through high school, our basketball team was very important to my district. That isn’t saying that these parts of nearly every school district, aren’t important. I’m a firm believer that regardless of the importance of these classes, a student can always learn a valuable lesson from these. There, of course, would be people that would disagree with my decision but if I was in charge of my district, I would cut funding to sports, and gym courses. I choose sports and gym classes because the amount of children that sign up for spots is lower today in my district. The number of participates

Football is an American sport, that many families and friends enjoy together. However, many people have not been interested in going to the football games they normally enjoy and not because of losses, but because of the disrespectful players in the National Football League (NFL). Kneeling during the National Anthem has become an issue, and some find it offensive because it’s disrespectful to veterans and active military personel, it shows our country doesn’t care how we act, and it causes people of our nation to fight each other.

Crack! That’s the sound of the bat made by students who play baseball or softball in the spring competitively. Unfortunately, this sound is being heard less and less due to low numbers of student players. While these are popular sports nationwide, numbers are low in our school because many students do not particularly can enjoy these and wish there was something else they could participate in. More sports choices could give these student-athletes more opportunities to compete for their school. Sublette Middle School should have more sports to choose from.

The amount of kids going out for school sports is very high at our school. Many bad decisions would be made without interactive school competitions. Some people might not want to even go out for some of the sports. In many of people’s houses around Osky competitive sports is what they live for. Taking out school sports competition against other schools would be a very bad things for the student athletes, the community, and the town of Oskaloosa.

Sports are the most important part of American culture, to take them from any citizen of the United States would be unconstitutional. High school is the most trying time period in a person’s life, there are social struggles, concerns with oneself, and fear of not being able to fit in and people still seem to worry more about grades than the well being of themselves and others. Doing well academically is not a thing of large importance to most students when they have so much on their plates, but other people care and they need something to blame the low GPA’s of schools on, so they target something near and dear to their hearts, a piece of culture. Sports. The only thing at blame for the academic success rate is the students and the pressure they fall under.

Physical activity is essential for children; therefore sport participation has many physical benefits for youths (Willox, 1994). In the United States there is a very unhealthy trend of physically unfit children going on. According to a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health seven out of ten kids in our nation are out of shape and the incidence of obesity has increased by more than 50 percent among America's children and teen since 1976 and continues to grow at a staggering rate (Metzel & Shookhoff, 2006). When children participate in sports activities they get some of the exercise they need to improve their quality of life and can help prevent children from becoming obese. Physical activity regulates obesity because it increases energy expenditure, suppresses appetite, increases metabolic rate, and increases lean body mass (Willox, 1994). Even though regular physical sport activity has been shown to improve physical fitness, it can also help in preventing many different health problems down the line that youths who participate in sports are more likely not to develop than youths who do not participate in sports. Women who participated in organized sport and fitness programs as

Politics and sports are not two things to mix. NFL player, Colin Kaepernick did this by not standing up to the National Anthem at a game in August of 2016. Some might think that this is wrong and that no matter what ethnicity or race you are, that if you live in America, you should stand for the anthem. However, you can’t control what people are going to think. You might as well make America a communist nation if you are going to make people change their minds.

Imagine a world without competition. Imagine a world where every student that couldn’t solve a simple math equation was accepted into an Ivy League school such as Harvard, or Yale. That wouldn’t be very safe now, would it? The student that we were counting on to create the “next best” medical technology had no idea what they were doing because the only reason they got into the school was that the dean “didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.” Although this is a far stretch, this is the reality people like Satasky in “Children Need to Play, Not Compete” wish could come true in today’s children’s sports. Playing sports for 15 years of my life and competing competitively for 11 of them have done nothing but good for me. Obviously, there have been hardships such trying my best to juggle sports and my many other obligations without letting any of them fall beneath the other, but I did it, and I owe it all to the many years of playing. Although children’s sports are becoming increasingly competitive, their parents are playing a major role in the risk of injury and other mental hardships, such as their child being discouraged if they don’t make the cut. However, the values the children learn by playing competitively such as perseverance and the opportunities that they bring upon themselves through hard work outweigh the disadvantages.

Millions of American children and teenagers are overweight. Over past three decades the incidence of obesity in children has tripled. Abundance of time spent in front of screens and limited access to recess, physical education, and afterschool programs. Sports can help promote physical fitness, health, and even nutrition among our children. Children who are obese often experience a diminished quality of life, learning difficulties, decreased self-confidence, and social discrimination. Participating in competitive youth sports burns calories, controls weight, reduces fat, prevent or delays the development of high blood pressure and helps to prevent adult obesity. Children who are active in sports are motivated to eat healthier foods, such as fruits and vegetables. Youth sports have been shown to break the vicious cycle of inactivity and unhealthy lifestyles by improving caloric expenditure, increasing time spent away from entertainment media, and minimizing unnecessary snacking.