Student Athletes And High School Athletics

Are high school sports good for kids? Many people believe that athletic sports are good, but they ignore the fatal flaws of these activities. Youth and high school sports are harmful because athletes often get too caught up in winning and get hurt frequently, physical sports also take away from other extracurricular activities.

There has been many occasions where high school teachers have to make a hard decision when an athlete is failing, what should they do. I believe that no high school athlete deserves any help from their teachers in order to play. They should be able to complete the circumstances needed in school if they truly wanted to play the sport these athletes are in. If this idea was allowed in high school what will happen to these kids later on in life like in college, will they be able to accomplish the goals at that point when it matters most?

To focus in on one sport in particular the game of football; furthermore, athletes who play football have a little to no chance of actually playing professionally. Out of the 15,842 eligible, only 256 will be drafted to play. Overall, there are currently 71,291 players professionally in the NFL. Concerning the facts of a football athlete actually getting chosen to play professionally is 1.6% (Estimated). This shows that other 15,586 suitable football athletes and the other sports athletes have to resort to another career. For the students who decided not to finish college must resort to lower paying jobs. They don not have enough education to apply and be accepted by high corporate jobs and sometimes athletic related jobs, such as sports marketing. By requiring athletic scholarship athletes to stay in school, it allows college athletes to have something to fall back if playing professional sports does not work

Furthermore, Neil added that a low number of student athletes graduate due to the pressure, stress, and overload of commitments. In contrast, I find that not to be true because I have seen several of my teammates graduate, along with my sisters and friends on other sports teams. Later Neil said, “I soon discovered that the prevailing stereotypes did not always apply” (pg 32). Neil supports his statement by expanding on the diversity of student athletes in activities of daily living.

The high school athletic association within each state is granted the right to govern and implement all of the regulations and policies related to the interscholastic athletics participation of the high schools (Sharp,Moorman,Claussen, 2014). In the article “Parent behavior, cyberbullying hurting high school sportsmanship”, the high school athletic association throughout the U.S has had several reoccurring issues such as constant interference by the athlete’s parents, social media and cyberbullying, and lack of sportsmanship.

Drive through any town in America on a Saturday morning and I am sure that you can find a park or school field that has a practice or games going on. It is estimated that 36 million youth between the ages of five and eighteen will participate in one or more organized sports each year (statistic brain). That is more than the entire population of Texas and most of Oklahoma. What is it that brings all of them, and their families out to line the fields throughout the United States? By the numbers, one can see the impact of athletics in America, if it is positive or negative is the real question. Many believe that this is part of growing up and that it will build character. Others are worried about the effects of competition and risks of injury to the young athletes.

1.3% of college football and men’s basketball players go pro. That means, every year out of around 92,000 athletes, about 90,500 athletes do not play beyond college (NCAA.org). Every athlete that does not make it to the next level, must find another way to support himself and build his life. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is responsible for more than 460,000 athletes in about 1,000 institutions (NCAA.org). However, the NCAA does not take its responsibility seriously.

That’s not all. Those who go to college for football have about a 1.6% chance to go to the NFL, for training camp. Men’s basketball is at 1.2%, .9% for women’s basketball, 8.6% for baseball, 6.8% for ice hockey, and 1.4% for Men’s soccer. This is all according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

America has high school sports for many reasons. One sports allows young individuals to practice life lessons, sportsmanship,and allows kids to work on there social skills as well. Sports allow students to practice time management, character building and for many the high school athlete is also one of your higher academic students as well. Now this is not always the case , but for the most part kids who are involved in sports have to be responsible for academics in order to particpate . In the Article " The Case Against High School Sports" I can see why the principle shut down sports in the school. I think having good teachers and being able to fund good teachers has to be a priority. I am not sure what the principle did would work everywhere

NCAA has related rules that require student athletes to report certain signs and symptoms to their medical staff immediately, including emotional traits such as depression. Other than this basic procedure and after briefly visiting the webpages of a few schools’ student-athlete service, it is shown that some schools ensure an athlete’s holistic welfare by providing a handbook that includes all the related policies and services. In the content of the handbook some must-have services/policies in terms of welfare are academic services, nutritional services, athletic medicine, and counseling services. Among those policies hazing and sexual protocols are the most common ones, whereas procedures regarding student-athlete depression are not the

As a student athlete, you might not be able to get into the pros in athletics. If you get beyond college in football, according to the NCAA in 2016 there were 72,788 football participants in the NCAA (NCAA). But of those 72,788 participants only 1.6% of them went pro (NCAA). That’s only about 1,164 college participants that move on to the Major Pros. Not only that but if you’re competing in women's basketball, only 0.9% of 16,589 players are eligible to play pro (NCAA). That’s about 149 players that are able to play in the pros. So if you don’t make it to the pros, you should meet requirements for other jobs. Even so, if you do make it to the pros, you might go broke after you retire. According to Forbes, “Sports Illustrated recently estimated

Welcome remarks by Ms Rapp: Thanked everyone for joining and introduce new employee D’Angelo Galang who replaced Missy Gingrich as the Far East Activities Coordinator.

How are college athletes able to make time for classes during college? In this day and age, college athletics take up a huge amount of time for college athletes. They have to devote

This article takes a look into how to change the perception of college athletics by making universities realign their athletic department to the university’s mission of academics. Gordon Gee is spearheading this reform throughout the NCAA and started this by moving Vanderbilt’s athletic department into their Division of Student Life department. This is just one of the ways he believes universities can reform their athletic department. Many believe that athletes take easy classes in order to keep their GPA up so they remain eligible for their sports , which in some cases are true as mentioned in $chooled: The price of College Sports (2013) a documentary that looked into the world of college sports. They discussed that some students were taking

During my observations only two students waited to present their I.D.'s to the employee who at the time was busy with another task, compared to the seventeen students who briskly walked past the employee while they were busy (It is important to note here that I am not counting students who I perceive to be athletes in this count. I will discuss student athletes in more depth later on). Through these observations and my small talk with various students around campus, I came to the conclusion that most students don't see the necessity of presenting their I.D.'s and find the new event to be troublesome and annoying.