Sports are a significant environment for the growth of character. Organized sports such as D-1 sports programs are built on their own mottos and help athletes build their characters. Whether or not the athletes attain good characteristics is solely up to the individuals teaching the sport. Different types of characteristics that sports promote will be discussed in this paper. This paper will also reveal what kinds of moral developments are promoted in pre-high school, high school, and college level sports. The paper will also look at a significant rejection or criticism of sports as a development of character. This criticism is that if competition itself is inherently immoral, competitive sports may express that inherent immorality as well.
