Athletes will worry about making money rather than their classes. College athletes are first and foremost students and they need to concentrate more on their classes than sports. A college education is essential for the future, making it more important than sports, thus college athletes should not be…
When asked about his college athletic career, Kendall Spencer, a former track student-athlete at the University of New Mexico and chair of the national Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) for Division I, explained and discussed the “student athlete experience” and how it helped him grow and achieve great things (NCAA). Moreover, the NCAA state the following reasons why a young man or woman should participate in college athletics: college education, academic success, scholarships, elite training opportunities, exposure and experiences and preparation for life (NCAA). According to Eitzen (2012), “the most important reason for universality of school sports is the widespread belief that the educational goals are accomplished through sport”. Image hearing these things as a 17 or 18-year-old hoping to star a big time university. These positive attributes easily draw in hundreds, but unfortunately, there are…
In Dave Galehouse’s article “Why College Athletes Do Not Succeed”, he states that “Student-athletes don’t realize the time and effort commitment that they are getting involved in and the sacrifices they are going to make. After classes and practices, student athletes are left with very little free time to do school work and be social with their friends” (Galehouse). It might appear to make someone more well-rounded, but it is not always apparent the amount of stress and fatigue that come with it. Jackson Van Arsdale gives a first person perspective of the difficulties associated with being a college athlete in his article “The Life of a Student Athlete”, he stated “ You are not only behind the rest of the class, but you are on the road. You have to teach yourself the missed material from the back of a bumpy bus, an airplane, or in the computer room of the hotel” (Van Arsdale).…
By the end of their first year, most athletes acknowledged that their athletic- related activities affected their academic performance” (Adler and…
The hardest part about being a college athlete is having to deal with the fact that other areas of life have to be given up, including social life. Players do not have the time or money to be involved or interact with other people which is a major part of many students’ lives. Researcher of student athletes Robert Shireman asserts that a college athlete could easily spend 40 hours or more per week on their sport…
College athletics are simply more than just extracurricular activity. Being a college athlete is a very hard task to manage. Athletes at top programs spend 43.3 hours per week in their sport; this more hours than average American works per week. This is all on top of their already busy schedules. They need to manage time for practice, part-time job, family, friends, school.…
Is free education enough to college athletes? Do colleges and universities exploit their athletes without even give them compensation? Years ago, being chosen from a university for being an outstanding athlete was a dream for most of the students wanting to have a sports’ career and a good education, but nowadays the debate over whether the student-athletes should be paid or not has been ... In fact, a group of former players “has filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that student-athletes are entitled to some of the money the NCAA makes off of using their names and likenesses on merchandise such as jerseys and video games.” () Critics of the schools’ system argue that student athletes do not obtain the sufficient benefits from their universities,…
Opportunities for a good education are there if they are willing to work as much at that as at football”. (Sloan S. and Favero D. 1) Scholastics in student athletes unfortunately take a back seat role in their college years, because students believe that they are indeed helping the university. Every student helps the university in some form so what differentiates a student athlete from a regular student? Critics say that students should be paid for going above and beyond and taking time out of their day to practice or to play a sport that they could be studying or doing something scholastically related. This idea is exactly what causes strife within a student body.…
Sports can also get some athletes scholarships for college, which for some athletes is a necessity for them to attend…
On the one hand, the intercollegiate athletics as important as the core academic subjects, but it cannot be learned through the classroom. The team "education based athletics activities" has been used frequently to describe the United States model of incorporating sports and other activity program within the college setting. The intercollegiate athletic is important because it offers the best educational opportunity for the majority of today's students, and the role it has broadened beyond a student oriented activity in today. According to the article" Defining Education-based Activity Programs" by Bob Gardner, he stated, "Learning the concepts of sportsmanship, playing by the rules, teamwork and perseverance will pay huge dividends throughout…
The evidence throughout this paper explains how high school sports and activities teach valuable lessons dealing with prioritizing, communicating, and learning. Playing a high school sport is not meant to be just about winning a title or two in a high school career. They teach skills beyond a field, they give students’ many opportunities in life. Student-athletes shouldto recognize the deeper aspects of what they do on a daily…
It takes a lot of effort and time to play sports in college and depending on the sport it can wear on their bodies and do damage to them, they sometimes have to miss family occasions to play the sport, and the coaches in the sports expect the best out of the player by showing up on time, early in the mornings when they have meetings before the students’ classes, meetings after classes, and even practices after classes until late at night, and also their sleep habits are awful. Students have to give so much of their time when they are an athlete in college that on some occasions they have to be late to…
“Sports...is seriously underestimated by educators, who see sports as competing with academic development rather than a route to it.” As I described, in my experience sports in my school did compete with academic development as did a variety of other social factors. I would suggest that if sports are to be a part of a well rounded education, then athletics should be optional to all students, not just the select few. It is no wonder introductory education would be socially divided, and students marginalized when at its core, the structure is flawed. Graff asserts that “the sports world was more compelling than school because it was more intellectual than school, not less.”…
I think students at schools shouldn't have to pick a some type of athletics to be involved in because of that you can you should have the right for you pick in school and schools shouldn’t force you to play in athletics in high school. When i was in High school to make i was going to be able to graduate in time we meet with our school guidance counselors to make sure that we had all of the credits that we were going to need. When i was told that i was going to need to take some type of art credit I started to look at the different classes that i wanted to take. I decided to get into public speaking and a Film lit class. I knew with all of my business classes that i was taking was going to fill all of the credits that i already had.…
Introduction: No doubt, co-curricular activities are essential for the intellectual, physical, moral and social improvement of an individual. Involvement in such activities results in higher academic achievement and good structure of the body. Co-curricular activities confirm a balanced and nourishing character development. They mark children well-adjusted physically, mentally, emotionally and socially. These activities are also useful in ethical training.…