When you look back on pictures of your early childhood, you realize how much enjoyment you had in the past, playing the sport you loved. For me, it was playing softball ever since I was a little girl and watching my sister play ball and longing to be just like her. I remember the long Friday nights that I thought would never end because of practice or the early Saturday mornings waking up at six o’clock to be at the field ready for warm up for another full day of softball. Looking back on those times, I reminisce but do not regret any of those moments. It made me a better person inside and out; it allowed me to develop critical leadership abilities, communication skills, confidence and self-poise that still carry with me today.…
Students that have been privileged with an athletic scholarship to play in collegiate sports have to understand that it is not a profession but a linkage to develop contacts with influencers and gatekeepers that will impact their future success into the national leagues or other areas of interest. These student athletes should not be concerned with receiving an annual salary or monthly stipend but focused on the most important component of obtaining a higher education which is to achieve academic success in a sound environment and develop professional skills to become an informed, efficient graduate and integrating those educational experiences into their profession as they make the transition after graduation. Any athletic student given…
Becoming a Sports Agent Growing up I always wondered what was my purpose in life. I had a variety of things that I was good at, but nothing that I ever thought I was great at. I enjoyed playing sports growing up, but the statistics of making it to the national leagues was so low that a more reachable goal had to be in store for my future. My cousin once told me “Marquis you are a jack of all trades, but when will you become a king of one?”…
Participating in Panther Athletics has had a tremendous role in making me into the person I am today. I have participated in volleyball, diving, and gymnastics over the course of my high school career. Participating in volleyball taught me so much about myself. It showed me how desperately I desire to succeed. After five years of participating in volleyball, I still had no idea what success looked like for me in that sport, so senior year I joined the diving team instead.…
Every day soldiers are shipped in and out of the U.S. going places and doing things to protect our nation. They give up normal routines for lives that will push them to their absolute breaking point all for the greater good to be achieved. However, to some disbelief these heroes are actually less financially appreciated then our pro-athletes, someone who risks senseless injury for our entertainment. Pro-athletes are sometimes able to make 31.3 million dollars a year and an additional 47 million dollars in endorsements simply to play a game.…
Although coaching is more than a skill, responsibility, and knowledge it’s a process of how one can transform the lives of others. First, what is a coach? My definition of a coach is “a person who trains an athlete or a team of athletes.”…
The bed mercilessly taunts my exhausted limbs to return but my determined heart persuades me to brave the trial by water once more. As I dive over the ice cold pool, dread and regret fill every moment until my body finally makes contact. For two, sometimes three, hours the situation will only worsen as I repeatedly raise my arms above my head and pull back as hard as possible. Weeks of this pass by, all for the sake of being able to travel through 100 meters of water a few milliseconds faster. Swimming has been my primary sport since the age of eight.…
Sport Psychology is a new field ready for hard workers who are willing to define its future. Becoming a member of this field is challenging, rewarding, and requires someone with a well-rounded personality and a passion for helping people become the best they can be. The education levels required vary depending upon the career path an individual chooses. The different career paths may be: a private practitioner, professor, military, or working for an NCAA institution. Depending upon an individual’s specialties one may work with various kinds of people, and can influence one’s salary.…
In my college career which has been around 4 years now, these first two weeks are the first of any trimester or semester that instead of being enrolled in classes, I’m enrolled in an internship. This is definitely a change from the norm but at the same time it is exciting as well. It gives me the opportunity to use or observe some of the material that I have learned so far in my classes at Johnson & Wales in a real scenario. This internship allows me as well to gain much needed additional experience in the sports and athletics industry and will give me a more holistic view of the athletic program. It will allow me to see many different roles and see from various projects what parts of athletics I like or dislike since I am overall still open for the future to a variety of roles in the sports industry…
To gain insight into the life of female student athletes I interviewed a female student athlete at Wright State University. Gabrielle is a senior studying Sports Science who runs Track and Field. From my conversation with her I could see how proud she was of discipline, strong work ethic, and positive attitude. It seems that she felt as if academic and psychological resources are ample for student athletes and that the support she has found here at Wright State has made her undergraduate degree more enjoyable. Despite these positive feelings about student athletes, she expressed that she was always busy, is board with team drama, has had injuries, and is constantly exhausted.…
My Challenge What does running mean to you? Perhaps running is hard work, pointless pain, and misery. Running means different things to everyone. Running to me it means I need to work hard and get something out of it.…
Do you want to earn millions of dollars? Do you want to travel and go to various cities or countries? Do you want to earn endorsements and enjoy the benefits from companies such as Nike or Adidas? You’re in luck, as all it will take to be able to earn all of the perks mentioned is a relatively simple formula. Just be athletically inclined with the talent to play a specific sport of your choosing.…
The coach is also the one responsible for developing a proper team culture to create a cooperative successful team. Positive enforcement should be utilized, and all success should be encouraged through intrinsic means rather than through extrinsic objects. Intrinsic goals make a player feel achieved, and they will encourage a player to continue with a sport as long as he or she can. Cooperation and moral skill building should be more important to a coach than power or command. A coach with a sound philosophy knows how to lead, manage, behave, teach, and train his players to the best of his ability not only for sport, but for…
As a person who comes from a country with less developed sport industry, I can say that I had no idea about the different opportunities and various career paths I can pursue. With each chapter we covered during the semester, I have discovered another career path that I can follow with desire therefore I first want to talk about the other sport related career opportunities I had an interest before deciding my ultimate goal. The sport agency is one of those options which I don’t have interest anymore. Being a sports agent is almost everyone’s dream who has any interest in sports, but after we covered the chapter related to the subject, I realized that law degree is a hidden requisite to be a successful agent.…
According to Dictionary.com, volleyball is a game in which two teams, six people on each, are attempting to keep a ball in motion over a high net, by using hands and arms to keep from touching the ground. Volleyball is a popular sport not just for women, but men also. This sport, volleyball, used to be my life until I got to high school. I have gone through many stages of volleyball that have sculpted me to who I am today. My first stage started in the third grade, when I started recreational volleyball.…