Pressure In Baseball

When playing any athletic sport, there are multiple risks that a player, such as I, may encounter while participating in each sport. Growing up in a sports family, meant I played multiple sports as a young athlete, such as, baseball, football, basketball and swimming. During my younger sports years, I cannot recall any major injuries or concussions in any of the sports I played. While practicing and participating in any sport or activity it is necessary to take precautions, by using the proper equipment and good technique before, during, and after the activity. As an athlete with many hours of practice and conditioning, I felt I ready for almost anything life could throw at me. As an athlete, I have pushed my body to the limit and my body started to push back with injuries leading to partial fractures, MCL tears, and UCL strain.

Many children enjoy sports more than life itself. To love a sports with that amount of significance is not a horrible thing, but to love oneself should be the first priority in life. Especially adolescents who play the sport with lots of passion and emotion by imitating their favorite athletes to fight an injury so they would be able to continue their action. The youth as a whole need to realize that injuries are capable of affecting people’s lives around them. For example, hiding any joint problems gives an increase chance of arthritis at a younger age. Sport injuries at a young age can lead to a serious case of no or rare physical activity for the rest of their life (Schnedier 1). Concussions are one of the most serious injuries that athletes should be aware of and how to continue. Athletes like Chris Coyne fight concussions to play, but fighting a severe headache, dizziness and nausea can hurt a team more if something very serious would have happened to effect a teammate’s life.

Jessica mentioned in the essay that competitive sports are psychologically damaging to children. Kids tie their ability to win and their performance to their self-worth and self-esteem. Her suggestion for fixing this issue is to not allow any competitive sports that allow scoring between the ages of six thru ages nine. One of the works that she cited said that children are more survivalist in nature and not physical. I would argue that from the moment of birth we are competitive in nature. Children below the age of twelve think more on the survivalist spectrum. However, a crying baby is trying to survive by competing with the mother for her attention. This competition leads to survival. If this is not fostered and groomed properly by the adults involved within and outside of the sports arena then it can cause psychological harm, no different than a neglectful

“Athletic trainers agree that a challenge in keeping student-athletes healthy is the proliferation of club sports, competitive travel teams and leagues that give kids more playing time around the year” (Nicholson 36). Being a student-athlete for about ten years playing football, basketball, soccer, running track and many other sports. I’ve seen a lot of injuries from turf toe to someone’s eye being popped out of socket to the worst concussion a person can get. Being hurt with any type of injury is bad for anyone, but being hurt without a player knowing is very bad. What I’m talking about is concussions, a very dangerous and harmful injury that could cause serious head trauma and could even cause death.

Fewer kids play amid pressure,” shows that children are giving up the fun in sports because the parents want to one-up each other. In the beginning of youth sports, it was just seen as a fun activity for the children, but the parents started getting involved, and the children were shown that this was not a fun sport but a competition that they had to win, no matter what. The article stated this when Amanda Visak explained that, “Amanda Visak, an exercise science professor at George Washington University, recently surveyed nearly 150 children about what they found fun in sports...the kids identified 81 factors contributing to their happiness. Number 48: winning...playing in tournaments, cool uniforms and expensive equipment” (Rosenwald 3). Because of the parents’ competitions, the children think that what is important is winning the game and uniforms, while in reality it should be having fun and trying your best while with your

Margaret Hodges, author of More young athletes are getting major-league injuries, talks about how teens involved in sports are likely to get injuries. The author uses two high school students as examples. Kathryn W., a high school hurdler, won the state championship for the 300 meter hurdles while she had a torn tendon in her hip and Jeffrey S., a high school pitcher, fractured his elbow while pitching. Both teens developed overuse injuries- injuries caused by stress due to repeated motions. Because of hopes for scholarships, teens focus on one sport causing them to replicate the same movements over and over again increasing overuse injuries. These injuries can get worse leading to surgery, although rest can prevent it. Finally, because of

Many parents become passionate and extremely involved in their child’s sports career and because of all this emotion riding on their kid’s performance they become combative. Sadly, these emotions have caused unnecessary tragedies that have changed the outlook of parents and children on these sports. Parents do this with good intentions, but in the end it hurts everyone around them. I believe that their behavior is inappropriate and these parents must also realize themselves that their actions and behavior are unacceptable and have to be addressed

Young athletes are at very high risks for injuries during the course of playing sports. It should be recognized that the development stage of adolescent growth is a period of physiological growth in height, muscle, skeletal and with their desire to be recognized by peers. Their belief that nothing bad will happen to them makes adolescents themselves prone to injuries. High school students play sports for various reasons such as scholarships, talents, hobbies, and fame, these reasons make high school athletics an important aspect of the student’s life.

“You will never be good enough. You are not trying your hardest. Why can you not do anything right?” These are common phrases from parents who put too much emphasis on sports. The parents from the documentary, Trophy Kids, push their children as if they were professional athletes, yet they’re only high school age or younger. As these parents push their children they are doing more harm than good. These parents may believe that they are using positive reinforcement, in reality, they are just tearing their child down. They tell the child everything they are doing wrong rather than helping them understand what they can do improved. In America today, AAU sport involvement is at an all-time high. Club sports are so large no one knows quite

Injuries are a crucial issue throughout the sports world and affect most players futures. Athletes are concerned of getting severely hurt or having their lives be at risk. Many players have the chance to prevent their injuries, but yet they never do. Families must discuss with the athlete about whether it is safe and enforce the rules to stop injuries such as concussions. More protection could also be worn to prevent broken bones or worse and also stretching to strengthen muscles. Injuries have increased a tremendous amount throughout the years because many players have stopped wearing the correct amount of protection and taking care of themselves.

Athletes are taught how to exercise properly and are usually required to do so regularly. This, experts say, is “particularly useful because they can keep young people from becoming obese and developing weight-related health problems.” One doctor in particular, Dr. R. Dawn Comstock of the Center for Injury Research and Policy, holds that “ We have an epidemic of obesity in this country, and sports is one of the best ways for kids to incorporate exercise in their lives”(High School Sports Injuries). High school sports encourage fitness and help to prevent health problems that occur due to obesity. The rate of childhood obesity is rising in American and athletics programs combat this “epidemic”, as it is referred to by Dr. Comstock. It cannot be argued that athletes don’t suffer injuries while participating in sports, however there is little proof that these activities offer a significantly higher risk of severe injury to students than everyday life, from walking down the street to playing in the backyard with your friends. Dr. Riley of Stanford University speaks of studies he researched before letting his own son participate on the high school football team. Dr. Riley states that these studies, done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show that “the risk associated with a long NFL career is not insignificant but remains small.” That is, the risk of death from brain trauma is only 3% among NFL players, as opposed to 1% in the general population. While these numbers suggest an increase in danger, one must remember that this is among NFL players who are usually involved in other high-risk behaviors aside from football. Those participating in amateur sports competitions face far fewer dangers than the average NFL athlete, on or off the

The text “Many kids are overdoing it when it comes to sports, and that’s dangerous” states “I clearly overdid it with too much running and jumping sports, then failed to say that I was hurting. I was a hyperactive, stubborn kid who loved sports.” This evidence shows that the author of this article was once a participant in youth sports and tried to be the best at his sport. Due to him trying so much he was getting hurt. Some kids try way too hard to be the best at their sport. When the kids try, they immediately start to get worn out. Kids need to devise a plan to help them not be a tryhard and not overwork yourself. Sometimes parents can also influence the overtrying of the kids. Kids who habituate themselves to the sport can make significant contributions to a team. Some parents want their children to be the best they can be in their sport. They want them to excel which puts a lot of stress on the shoulders of the kids. The kids then continue to try harder and harder which eventually causes injuries and sore limbs which may force kids to drop out of the sports they love. All in all, many kids try way too hard to excel and overdo it when it comes to

“Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser,” Vince Lombardi once said. This saying could be the unsung anthem of American sports for children and teenagers. Everyone loves to win. In sports there is always competition. Is there too much emphasis on “the win” for kids and teens? This issue is important because it essentially develops the way children and teenagers think and react; it will affect them later on in life. Too much emphasis on winning is a problem because there is extensive pressure from parents and coaches, and the consequences can be severe.

A main concern of these people are the fact that children’s self-esteem might be hurt if they fail or lose in sports at an early age. These people believe that losing or being “left out” of a game could cause long lasting self-esteem issues in children and that's why competitive sports should not be in physical education in schools. Pawlak’s “The Thrill of Victory… The agony of Parents” talks about losing and how it affects self-esteem when she says “I was deemed such a poor player i was not even good enough to play one moment of the first win of the season.”(Pawlak 2014) This is showing how hard it can be on a kid to lose a game or even be left out of a game where their team wins. Which is why some people argue that for the stake of children’s self-esteem, schools should take away competitive

A calm Saturday afternoon at the sports fields, wind blowing, sun shining down, not a cloud in the sky. This is quite possible the perfect day, that is, until they start. The one parent in the back of the crowd or off to the side, the one that argues every call, screams at their own child, and even goes so far as to taunt the other team’s players. This once scarce phenomenon of parents getting out of control has escalated to new levels not only in the number of incidents, but also in the level of severity of these incidents. When children sign up for sports they do it to be with friends, to have fun, and to learn the fundamentals of the game, however this is not what they are getting and this new