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    a business similar to the NFL or NBA? That is exactly what would happen if college athletes began to be paid for their talents. There are many other reasons college athletes should not be paid, for example, college athletes already receive compensation in the form of scholarships, each athlete could not be paid the same, and athletes should be focusing on school, not athletics. My first reason why NCAA athletes should not be paid is that they already receive compensation in the form of scholarships

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    With all this running around, student athletes often feel overwhelming amounts of stress. “We are concerned that students in these selective, high pressure high schools can get burned out even before they reach college,” noted Leonard, PhD, a senior research scientist at the New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) (“NYU Study Examines Top High School Students' Stress and Coping Mechanisms”). It is still important for athletes to build good time-management skills, however, they should not be

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    Drug testing in high school sports should be mandatory from all sports and athletes across the country. At the highest college and professional sports levels there are mandatory drugs test taken by every individual player before the season is started. High school athletes are able to get away with using drugs during their sports season because there is no mandatory drug test that is taken. The drug test is a necessity to keep everything even and fair throughout the season of high school sports. Students

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    Today’s Student-Athletes: The Numerous Benefits of High School and Collegiate Athletics What is a better predictor of success, varsity letters or straight A’s? Maybe being captain of your high school football team will really help you become a more successful person in life. High school and collegiate athletes are more successful off the field, in places such as the classroom, workplace, as well as down the road in the “game of life”. Today’s professional athletes are put under tremendous pressure

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    lights shining down on them. During high school rodeo and college rodeo athletes must meet different levels of expectations; their performance because of scholarships or money, their coaches or parent’s expectations, and academic success. Expectations for college rodeo athletes are higher than the expectations for high school rodeo athletes. First off, high school contestants do not have to perform great to keep scholarships given to them. High school rodeo athletes are not on scholarship to rodeo.

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    The use of drugs while the athletes are playing sports is a really bad problem in these days. And most of the athletes are students from high school, many high school districts are now in problems for not tested their student athletes. The rule of be tested of using drugs have considered a big problem for the athletes health, and because it’s against the rules. This is important for the student athletes to know that this kind of problem have to be fixed and to let them know about the risk of using

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    Should School Athletes have to take Drug Tests “17% of teens drink, smoke, and use drugs during the day in the United States.”(Adler) This is the result of the absence of drug testing in our community, especially in our school. An analysis fact from CDC’s objective Terry Pechacek states that 50 million people do drugs in the united states and 4 million of them are underage and the majority of them are in a high school athletic. Citizens predict that this percentage number will slowly pullulate

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    aspects of high school sports that students and parents don’t spend enough time thinking about (e.g. pros and cons of high school sports.) Being an athlete in high school teaches you many things (e.g. character building, socialization, sportsmanship, live a healthier lifestyle, college preparation, ect.) Along with positive aspects of being a student athlete in high school, there are also negative ones (e.g. injuries, lack of free time, pressure, not focusing on school.) When a student athlete competes

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    What is one goal for high schools to accomplish besides their athletic programs winning state? The goal is sponsorships whether if it’s from shoes companies to sports drinks. What sponsorships do for their school of choosing is they give thousands to even millions of dollars for the school to be fully equipped with the company’s gear. Specifically for the athletic department. That entitles the school to get brand new equipment whenever they like and can supply athletes with the newest gear from that

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    and rehabilitation of injuries in physically active athletes. Certified Athletic Trainers are medical professional experts who collaborate with sport medicine physicians in providing services in injury prevention, assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation, particularly in the orthopedic and musculoskeletal disciplines. Certified Athletic Trainers work with physicians and other members of the sports medicine team to help safely return athletes to their physically active individual or team sport

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