Travel Teams For Different Sports

In the article “The Rising Costs of Youth Sports, in Money and Emotion,” When parents spend money on sports they do not realize that they are just paying for the sport itself, not including private lessons and uniforms (Sullivan 1). This means that parents actually end up spending much more money than they thought. According to the article, “Is the Cost of Youth Sports too High,” “The rising costs of youth sports has also raised some concerns that it’s making it harder and harder for children to get involved, even if they want to.” This shows that because families don’t have enough dough, they are spending it on other things instead. Author Paul Sullivan writes that many people say that it is a waste to spend money on sports when you can buy much better things (1). This is important to notice because why waste your money when you can use it on bills, clothes, furniture, and many more useful

“The Most Expensive Game In Town” by Mark Hyman is a book with a loud voice trying to reach its reader and spread its word. The book is a written opinion on youth sports and how everyone is getting pulled into “my kid deserves all this (equipment and money) and will hopefully become a pro and because I put in so many funds, he has a better shot getting a scholarship.” This is basically Hyman’s argument in a nutshell, especially in the beginning. Hyman writes to the public to show which I realized while reading, is that youth sports has a lot of negatives and is poorly ran by people, businesses, government. WIth that said, we can’t help it because without these organization or businesses whose going to help pay for all these tournaments and leagues. Hyman questioned in the early stages of the book, “for young athletes is more always better”. With businesses trying to use youth sports as marketing, sporting goods stores give parents the “more” option and the tease to spend even more money.

In my prior essay, in support of paying college athletes, I made an argument of how scholarships don’t necessarily provide an adequate amount of money for the student to survive an entire school year. In many cases, although the scholarship pays for the athletes education entirely, many of the

Throughout my high school athletic career, playing both football and running cross country, i’ve witnessed multiple teammates of mine receive scholarships to continue their athletic and academic careers at a university. However due to the disproportionate number of hours spent on the sport rather than academics without receiving compensation is causing many high school athletes to turn down athletic scholarships and instead begin to focus on their academic futures.

It’s also important to note that college student-athletes are not only a part of a sports team; they are a part of the college or university’s advertising team. For example, the “Flutie effect” is used to describe a surge in college admission following a big sports win. It’s named for Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie; he won the Heisman Trophy in 1984, and the College’s admissions rose significantly in subsequent years—though the extent of Flutie’s impact has been largely refuted by BC officials since then. Still, colleges and universities use their athletic success to promote their school and entice potential applicants. Student-athletes would be paid for this and all the additional benefits they provide for their

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up,” said legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. The game of football will truly teach those who play it to get back up after they’ve been knocked down, in life and on the field. On Sunday, February 7th, people all over will be attached to their televisions, tuning in for the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl and watching the game that has been around for over 145 years; a game that should be open to all ages, including children. In this situation, there are too many rewards that outweigh the risks to consider stopping youth football. This sport gives so many amazing opportunities for children and keeps them healthy too.

Another argument in favor of the extinction of the athletic scholarships is that athletes don’t get enough money to live decently. The financial aid money covers the tuition, fees, living and book expenses (Johnson & Acquaviva, n.d.). Even so research by the Collegiate Athletes Coalition (CAC), a non-profit group of parents interested in helping athletes study in higher education facilities fully sponsored, uncovered a gap of at least $2,000 between the expenses the school pays for and the total of what the student will need over the course of his or her academic life (Johnson & Acquaviva, n.d.). This led some to consider paying athletes. Johnson responded by presenting several options to improve the athletes’ lifestyle by giving them more money (Johnson & Acquaviva, n.d.).

Since the 1987-1988 school year “students at public four-year institutions paid an average $3,190 in tuition, with prices adjusted to reflect 2017 dollars. Thirty years later, that average has risen to $9,970 for the 2017-2018 school year(Martin).” Parents all over the world will make their kid’s focus on a sport in hopes that they will get a scholarship and not have to pay the high fees for college. They don’t get to have the freedom to do the things that wealthy children can, for example wealthy kids have no financial problems going in to college while poor kids will struggle and have to get students loans. As a parent, you just hope that your kid will be good enough to get a scholarship so that you won’t have to pay for the college tuition. Martin also states, “More likely, the hypothetical child would pay the tuition bill themselves, as the rising cost of higher education has led Americans to struggle with a collective $1.4 trillion in student loan debt(MAKE IT).”

The pressure they have from their parents to get a college scholarship for a certain sport is huge. Either the parents can not afford it, or they just want their teenager to do better than they did when they were their age. With the college tuition getting higher and higher, the pressure gets harder. Jason Sacks, from the Positive Coaching Alliance said, “Parents are putting in all this money and time, and they think that if they put it all in, they’ll see a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a college scholarship.” Therefore, the high school kids cannot let down their parents because they have pushed so hard their whole life to get a scholarship to college from sports.

Over the years, youth sports have transformed from pickup games to heavily organized sports leagues. Community recreational leagues formed, where teams played other teams from their community, or teams from surrounding comminutes. However, that was not the only option for kids. If the child was good enough and heir parents had enough money, they could join a travel team. These teams often provided more skilled competition and teammates. Travel teams have greatly increased in popularity. They are so popular, that some people believe they take away from the community aspect of children’s sports. Travel teams are so popular because many parents believe that travel teams greatly improve their child’s chances of turning into a great athlete or getting a college scholarship.

On the other hand, some people support youth sports being intense. Since the parents do not have the guts to do it themselves, they want the coaches to do it. Parents allow this because they do not want to be the ones to take their child's confidence away, they want to be as supportive as possible. Also, parents make their kids do competitive sports just because they want them to get noticed. According to Detroit Free Press, parents put a lot of time into their kids sports and they automatically think that if they put all of the time in, “they will see a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a scholarship” (www.freep.com). That does not happen that easily. You have to earn your scholarships by working hard, not just because you think you deserve one without doing anything. At some point, parents will think that their kids need to push themselves to their limits so they can get noticed by college coaches. If kids do this all the time, overuse

One complaint people have about college athletes is that they leave school too early and do not get an education to go try out for the professionals (Duggan). In college basketball there is a term “one and done” which means that basketball players will go to college for a year and then go to the NBA. The main purpose to go to college is to get an education; however, “one and done” defeats that purpose. Some athletes leave school early because their families need money. If student athletes were paid, they would have the money needed to provide for their families so they could stay in school and get the education that could provide for them later in life (Duggan). College athletes end their education early because they want the large paychecks that they will get in the pros (Duggan). “There are 480,000 college athletes in America.”(Duggan). “Only 1.1 percent of college basketball players move on to the NBA.” (Kronstadt). “1.6 percent of college football players go on to the professional level”(Kronstadt). These numbers show that very few college athletes are able to go onto the next level of their sport after college. Student athletes are not getting the education they need to prepare for the work force because their sports are taking so much of their time. The fans do not go to the games to watch the coaches coach; they go to watch the players play the game

High school sports can be very stressful times as parents tend to pressure their children to get a scholarship. Some families need a scholarship to pay for college as its maybe their only option. Stated in the first video by KCRA, only 11% of hockey players get scholarships, 6% of base ball players, 5.5% of football players and lastly 3% of basketball players. The mixture of such few student athletes receiving a scholarship and parents riding their kids to get one just leads to unnecessary pressure that a lot of the time gets the child anywhere but forward in life.

Players who play college sports are sometimes perceived as fortunate and well-off. Many people believe because athletes receive full scholarships, where they don’t have to pay anything for college, they flourish and live a lavish lifestyle. However, in reality, nothing can be further from the truth. College athletes commonly struggle to survive in college because many students are financially dependent. In fact, according to Harnett (2013), most of the student-athletes would have had a difficult time paying for college if it wasn’t for the scholarship. A full athletic scholarship is an opportunity for students to get a free education while also representing a school by playing a sport. However, as previously stated, scholarships do not put

<br>Young girls dream of, one day, being able to play the sport they adore for the rest of their life. For many adolescent girls this dream many not seem at all possible, perhaps because of their own financial status at home. Scholarships are supposed to provide financial assistance to those who need and deserve to have a superb education. Scholarships could also be used to reward students for their outstanding achievement in the field of sports. Women received $142,622,803 less scholarship support than their male counterparts during the 1995-1996 scholastic year (Wine 2). Women are merely 30% of scholarship money; that leaves 70% of the scholarship money for the men to spend. The 70% of ‘leftover' scholarship money certainly does not go to the women's equipment and supplies.