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    Every high school has different social, stereotypical cliches. Throughout various schools, there are “the nerds” who enjoy completing assignments and value high grades, “the loners” that stick to their secluded, individual group, and “the jocks” or athletes that participate in every sport possible. High school athletes dedicate a numerous amount of time to practicing and playing sports. Multi-sport athletes never receive a break between seasons, after one sport concludes the other begins in a matter

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    you have to do to get good grades is to try hard. Some people say high school athletes should have above a certain GPA in order to continue to play their sport for their school. Some ways to succeed in studying properly include making time, place, and way to study. One way for an athlete to succeed in studying and doing homework is to make time to work. Some say they don’t have the time to study or do homework outside of school. In most cases, they didn’t try to make time to do their work at home

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    During high school, students have the opportunity to play some sort of sport whether it is; soccer, football, basketball, rugby, cheerleading, and so on. These times are crucial for students because not only are they signing up to participate in practices and games, but they are signing up to learn how to balance sports and their academic success. Being involved in a sport allows an individual to be surrounded by leadership skills and discipline traits, which in return can improve academic success

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    the opportunity to be on an NFL roster in their life. Yet, nearly one million high school football players have aspirations of playing in the NFL. The realization that so many high school athletes have dreams of playing a college or professional sport is concerning. However, the counter argument is students should be allowed to dream big and shoot for the stars. While I firmly believe that one should be allowed to have high expectations, he should be aware that it is impossible for him to fully achieve

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    even see them on TV. They are student-athletes. They live a busy life trying to balance school and athletics. Some say that their academic grades suffer due to their time spent on athletics, this is not true. Participating in sports while pursuing an education can help students promote not only good work ethics but help them achieve academic success. For the sake of this argument, I will focus strictly on high school student athletes and not college student athletes. Television and other mainstream media

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    Yes, In my opinion I think high school athletes should be tested for performance-enhancing drugs. You are probably thinking,"Why?", well I'm going to tell ,why?. Well Lots of athletes are using drugs and they need to stop because that can make bad things happen in their body and it can also ruin their lives. According to my research "Today High school student athletes are using drugs to enhance performance in record numbers. Experimentation with human growth hormones by America’s teens more than

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    “if you can dream it, you can do it”. This quote is relevant because student athletes must believe they can achieve their academic and athletic goals. High school athletes should have to maintain a certain GPA in order to participate in high school athletics. First, making the commitment to practice and play a sport requires hours of practice. This does not give a student much time to complete homework assigned at school. Second, students who play sports do not always get a full athletic scholarship

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    High school athletes who want to get recruited by a college need to get noticed by the right coach. Although in some cities, athletes in Class and football, basketball and baseball may have scouts come to their games, and in metropolitan areas, many sports are frequently covered in widely distributed newspapers or newscasts, every year, thousands of other outstanding athletes are overlooked for one simple reason: the coaches didn’t know they were out there student athlete. Equipment and shoe for

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    Wrestling is one of the more difficult sports when it comes to being in high school or college. It is not for everyone the sport is very demanding physically and mentally. To the point where it could seriously injure someone. In wrestling at the beginning of the season you will choose a weight class that you will wrestle for the season. On the day of the meet you have to weigh in and weigh the weight class you chose. Some wrestlers would do just about anything to make weight even if it meant making

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    Should high school athletes take drug tests for performance enhancing drugs? The answer is yes. There are many different reason for high school athletes to have to take the tests. Most high school athletes that take these drugs, take them to get better in sports and continue to because they think won't get caught doing this. Most of these athletes might take their love for sports to college, and maybe even the Olympics, which both have their athletes test. Stated by Manny Navarro of the

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