High school athletes

A 2016 study by the NCAA revealed that there are nearly eight million students who participate in high school athletics in the United States, yet only 480,000 of them will compete at NCAA schools ("Probability of Competing Beyond High School"). Of that approximate 16% who become a student-athlete, an even smaller percent will graduate and become professional athletes. For example, data from the 2015 NFL Draft demonstrates that there is less than a 2% chance of playing in the NFL. During the 2015

such as blood tests for HCM, an appropriate diet, and exercise, are able to help save thousands of lives of everyday high school athletes. Basic bodily health is something that people should be extremely familiar with since they have

The retirement process for elite, professional, collegiate, and high school athletes can be very difficult, especially when it is unexpected. Unexpected retirement frequently occurs because of injury, but also because of deselection, and other outside causes (Lavallee, Gordon, & Grove, 1997). Furthermore, Lavelle, Gordon, and Grove (1997) stated that the transition out of sport forces athletes to combat multiple economical, interpersonal, and psychological adjustments, all of which are unfamiliar

universally. Women were eventually granted the right to play sports in the collegiate setting however there was no equality to the treatment within the athlete’s school and no treatment outside of it either (History 1). Until title IX was passed, women’s collegiate athletics were given no scholarships to award to exceptional high school athletes and those programs were given very little budget to fund their programs (Ibid 1). As a result of these shortcomings, in 1972 only 30,000 participated in athletics

three times a day. My kneecaps have gotten stronger and I created a workout routine that has worked for me. My weight and my blood pressure are normal. The reason I needed to create my workout is because I had been a three sport varsity athlete in high school but I suffered kneecap injuries, which forced me to stop playing. The goals for my workout were to build up my knees and thigh areas. I also wanted to build muscle mass in my upper body. I need to eat a good healthy balance of food and drink

Anabolic Steroids and the High School Athlete Anabolic steroid abuse has become a national concern among high school athletes. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of athletes using these performance enhancing drugs in high school almost double the number using since the 1980's. These athletes feel that steroids gives them the competitive edge that they think they need to boost themselves past the competition. Steroids have been used in bodybuilding and other sports since the

“During the 2013-2014 school year, more than 1.4 million high school student athletes were injured. The latest National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study shows the most common injuries are strains or sprains, contusions, fractures and concussions” (“Keep Athletes Safe”).This statistics shows that high school students athletes go into games and practices without the common sense to play under control. With more common sense of how to play sports, hopefully athletes would not

never heard of for soccer games. But when I entered high school, all that would soon go away. I kept playing the same sport that I always had, although now I had to wake up at five in the morning for six hours of high school soccer practice in the smoldering summer heat in order to make the high school team. High School sports were more competitive than anything I had done before. I put in as much effort as I could to make the Varsity High School team, staying out past dinner to practice even longer

Chapter 1: Introduction In 2004, heat illness was the third leading cause of death in high school athletes.1 When playing outdoors in hot and humid environments, children are at higher risk for heat illness compared to adults. Heat illness includes multiple levels of severity, ranging from typically manageable heat cramps to a life-threatening heat stroke.2 Pre-pubescent children have immature thermoregulatory systems and they have a higher sweat threshold due to their smaller sweat glands. Their

High school athletes should be tested for performance enhancing drugs and the reason I am stating this is because at that age group, some of the athletes are incapable of making good lifetime decisions and thrive in the moment of glory by taking performance enhancing drugs to be better themselves in the sport that they are involved in. Some high school athletes may think they won't get caught so they'll just keep doing what they're doing, but if there were a drug test, then that would probably bring