Ego Identity In College Sports

This stress, is all heightened mainly by their coaches and administration, the six distinctive challenges that these athletes mainly face is, balancing academic and athletic responsibilities, athletic success or failures emotionally, physical health and injury with the need to continue competing, balancing demands of relationships with entities of coaches, teammates, parents, and friends, and then to addressing the termination of an athlete’s career. Addressing their identity at times may affect them as well.
College athletics may form an ego identity for certain people that their around as well such as their parents, peers, and even strangers or accolades to athletes for their performance. This support and encouragement might seem positive …show more content…
Ego identity can become fragile when society defines a developing personality based upon superficial values. This pressure can become sometimes overbearing where students actually have committed suicide. Sarah Devens, a three sport star and all American went to Dartmouth, an ivy league, high academic institution, committed suicide, taking a 22-caliber rifle and shooting herself in the chest. She had a mental breakdown as the pressure became too much for her to handle. For coaches the sport comes first but they are very understanding to the academic rigors that especially non-scholarship athletes go through. At times coaches will ask athletes to make them aware of pending tests or assignments. Student athletes experience complex development issues that should be addressed in the programs and policies created by the institutions. There are tremendous amounts of responsibility and high expectations placed on the shoulders of all the young athletes who go to their institutions. If what is expected of them is success in the classroom as well as on the court or field, it is imperative that support be provided at all levels of the institution so that they can be intellectually, emotionally, and physically