The Importance Of Height In A College Sport

In her first year of playing high school softball, Koepp is hitting .456 with an on base percentage of .524. She has 31 hits, 28 runs scored, seven stolen bases and a fielding percentage of .961. Her 42 RBIs is second in the MLL.

”Kati-Jayde is just beginning to scratch the surface of the type of player she’ll be and the accolades that will come,” said Centenary Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation and Facilities and former Ladies soccer coach David Orr. “She is very humble with such honors, which tells you about the level of her character. Kati-Jayde is a huge part of the reemergence of the Ladies soccer program.”

Natalia Marchanka is known as one of the best all around players for the Women’s Basketball program. She led the Knights in scoring from 2002-2004. She is currently 10th all time in single season scoring and 4th in career points with 1,664. Along with being a great scorer Marchanka led her team in assists her last three seasons putting her 8th and 10th in single season assists. Marchanka is currently 2nd on the career assist list

Sarah Clancy is a Freshman Husky here at Chino Hills High School. She is very involved in school and extracurricular activities. Sarah is on a pitcher on the Chino Hills High Varsity Softball Team, and she says she loves playing softball because of the feeling of adrenaline and seeing her hard work pay off. She is also in the Health Science Academy, and she is also involved in Key Club. Sarah says her favorite thing about being a Chino Hills Husky is, “ the support system and friendships I’ve made this school year.”

“She is coming out of her shell and she starting to learn to do more. She's a big scorer for JV, and she's starting to carry that over to the varsity game.” Mya McFadden, varsity girls manager, said.

When starting goalkeeper Jessica Maxwell from women’s lacrosse went down to injury, the team needed someone to fill in as goalkeeper. Normally a midfielder, Emily Fitzsimmons did not hesitate to step into the unfamiliar role of goalkeeper. She simply said, “The team needed me.”

It is time to pay college athletes. The collegiate sports nonprofit conglomerate the NCAA is an organization that oversees over 1200 institutions between two divisions, D1 and D2. They implement rules and regulations that every student athlete must follow between these two divisions regardless of their sport or school. These top college players are expected to withstand a 40 to 50 hour training and playing schedule While keeping up their school work in the same week. Because of this many of these students get nothing out of their scholarships they receive to attend the school and an even smaller amount of these kids even make it to a higher level of competition. The NCAA the tax exemption monopolistic program takes in an average of over

Before high school athletes totally rule out trying to play sports in college they need to consider the similarity and differences between high school and college sports. As young children, most high school athletes started out dreaming about being a sports star and making it into the professional. If these dreams are given up because college sports seem out of reach or too difficult, they will never know where they could have ended up. College sports can seem like a big step from high school sports but in the end they have many similarities.

Are college athletics becoming the new face of professional sport leagues? What is the value of going to college when you have a $24-million-dollar contract on the table to go play for the Yankees, Celtics, or the Broncos? Is there any person that would give the opportunity, experience, or money to go play for a college on a scholarship? Because that amount of money is so insignificant, it will not pay for his/her whole tuition and have a chance at a career ending injury in result. These are the questions that loom around the mind of a student-athlete entering this stage in their career. However, there is a serious fight to having high school students attend college, earn a degree, and then enter a draft to a professional team. The disgrace with college sports makes us ask: should Division l athletes be paid over and beyond their scholarship?

The NCAA for countless years has regulated and overseen the actions and conduct of the players they hold. The rules the NCAA has in place are there to keep the playing field fair for all schools across the country. However, some of these rules put unfair restrictions on the players. One of those policies prevents athletes from profiting off of their own performance and fame. These athletes produce hundreds of millions of dollars for their respective schools every year but do not get a penny in return. Not only is this unfair but it is quite inhumane, the NCAA practically owns the players and gives them little freedom. I believe that rules should be changed to allow college athletes to profit off of themselves.

Let me ask you all a question. Who in here likes money? Exactly, everyone likes to have a little bit of extra money in their wallet or bank account. Now imagine being a college athlete on a scholarship. Your parents aren't very financially stable and don’t have enough money to give you every week for food or winter clothes. You then have classes from 10am-3pm, weights from 4pm-5pm and practice right after that until 8pm. After practice when you get back to your dorm you remember that you have homework to finish and are hungry but the cafeteria is closed. You don’t have enough money to spare for fast food and go to bed hungry. If the NCAA paid you for playing you would never go to bed hungry.

High school sports make student athletes strive for better success in their education. Sure some Schools have a minimum G.P.A requirement of 2.0, and to get that all your classes have to be “C” or better. Well that’s better than letting them have a 1.0 and letting them play. It makes them have something worth studying for, For example my friend Bryan Garcia does not like school or work but he is always looking for ways to make his grades better so that he may play with the John F. Kennedy soccer team. Also not all the states in the United States of America have a G.P.A requirement to play in a sport activity, twelve out of the fifty states in the USA require a G.P.A to play."A High School Athlete 's GPA Vs. Average High School Student 's GPA." Everyday Life. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2016.”Sports participation is associated with higher GPAs, lower dropout rates and stronger commitments to school compared to the average,non-athlete high school student”. Also they made a study for Kansas in 2008-2009 between athletes and non-athletes,Academic Performance Of Athletes And Non‐Athletes, and Page 41. COMPARING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES AND NON-ATHLETES IN KANSAS IN 2008-2009 (n.d.): n. pag. Web.”high school athletes earned higher grades,graduated at a higher rate, dropped out of school less frequently, and scored higher on state assessments than did non-athletes”. Student athletes have a greater chance of graduating with a 3.0 or more. They are more

This year she plays on the AA Midget team, Girls Team Wyoming, and the Lady Oilers. Molly puts in the extra effort that comes with being a captain and is still able to be an asset to the other teams. With all her hard work from last season in helping other teammates to become better at defense, I was able to move her to forward as my starting center. She sees the ice extraordinarily well and now helps the forwards out by talking to them on the bench on where to be and what to do in certain

When I was applying to college I talked to the coach of the University of Central Oklahoma cheerleading squad in hopes that I could tryout for the team. I thought that another commitment in addition to my school work would help to keep me focused for the second semester. One thing that I didn’t expect is the time and energy you need to put aside to play a sport in college. In high school, playing a sport was a much easier task. College sports are very competitive and the athletes playing for the college are the most talented in the school division. I am not saying that I am not capable of cheerleading at a college level; more that it would be a strenuous commitment for a

The NBA “one-and-done” rule was first implemented in the summer of 2006. This new rule concerns the eligibility for recent high school graduates to forego their eligibility to play college basketball and enter straight into the NBA draft. The informed high school basketball players that they had to be at least one year removed from high school and had to be at least 19 years of age in order to partake in the NBA draft. Currently, the league does not require players to play NCAA basketball as you can be drafted after playing a season overseas. However, for many high school graduates attending college has becomes their only option in pursing the dream to one-day play in the NBA.