An issue that is majorly debated on is Youth Competitive Sports. I take the position on the against side of this debate. Coaches can place pressure on players and they are at risk for severe sports-related injuries, mentally or physically. Some coaches will verbally, physically and/or emotionally abuse players. In a video, a group of football players is seen horsing around, and when the coach comes in, he waits a few seconds before punching a player for no apparent reason. This does indeed count for physical and emotional abuse because 1) The coach hits the player so hard he doubles over and falls to the floor and 2) the player now believes he will be punished at any given time. In a study of 800 youth athletes, 4% said the coach hurt someone.
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Kids who enter sports in pre-k are more likely to stop sports in middle school because they no longer find the fun in it. Kids want to do sports as a way to have fun and be kids, but recently sports are now being made with intense training schedules, the pressure to win and be the best, and painful injuries. Injuries that were once rare in children are now becoming increasingly more common. Jacqueline Stenson, author of “Pushing Too Hard Too Young”, said “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that from 1997 to 1999 sports and recreation-related injuries were more common nationwide than injuries from traffic accidents. Americans ages 5 to 24 were most likely to be treated for sports-related injuries by health professionals. Kids 5 to 14 had the highest injury rates of all – 59.3 episodes per 1000 people” This demonstrates how children are in fact taking a risk in sports. Another factor that applies towards sports-related injuries is the couch-potato culture. Kids are tranquilized all summer long, watching TV and sitting all day, and in the fall they want to do a sport when they are extremely out of shape. The sudden change can cause the body to clamp up, sometimes causing body pain and aches. Sometimes the pain is too much to walk or move
Kids who enter sports in pre-k are more likely to stop sports in middle school because they no longer find the fun in it. Kids want to do sports as a way to have fun and be kids, but recently sports are now being made with intense training schedules, the pressure to win and be the best, and painful injuries. Injuries that were once rare in children are now becoming increasingly more common. Jacqueline Stenson, author of “Pushing Too Hard Too Young”, said “the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that from 1997 to 1999 sports and recreation-related injuries were more common nationwide than injuries from traffic accidents. Americans ages 5 to 24 were most likely to be treated for sports-related injuries by health professionals. Kids 5 to 14 had the highest injury rates of all – 59.3 episodes per 1000 people” This demonstrates how children are in fact taking a risk in sports. Another factor that applies towards sports-related injuries is the couch-potato culture. Kids are tranquilized all summer long, watching TV and sitting all day, and in the fall they want to do a sport when they are extremely out of shape. The sudden change can cause the body to clamp up, sometimes causing body pain and aches. Sometimes the pain is too much to walk or move