Argumentative Essay On Competitive Sports

Furthermore, the large commitment of competitive sports makes it difficult for children to find time to explore different opportunities in their community; these opportunities include lots of different things including different sports other than the sport they specialize in, jobs, different community service activities, and extracurricular activities at school. When children get to experience all of these different things, they not only help make the children more well rounded people, but the different activities also helps give the children an edge when it comes to college resumes. In an article titled “Extracurricular Activity Involvement Affects College Acceptance” written by Peterson staff, it talks about the different things that colleges look for when accepting new students, including different things such as dedication, leadership, and true …show more content…
Children should be able to have fun while playing sports by making friends and learning new things, not having to worry about the different politics and favoritism. In addition, the little rest period between seasons leads to overuse of the body, causing serious injuries that can affect the way your body matures. Also, the constant skipping of school for sports promotes that sports comes before school, which is not true and we do not want our children to believe that is accurate. Lastly, highly competitive sports takes time away from the children to explore different opportunities in their community, which gives them a disadvantage when it comes to real-world experiences. While all of these are reasons as to why competitive sports are too large of a commitment for children, I believe that if some changes are made to the way that competitive sports are viewed and ran today, we can go back to the way sports used to be for