Athletic scholarship

for all applicants. This problem only grows when the ever-stressful conversation of scholarship and financial aid is brought into the mix. It is unethical for an admission office to lower standards for a specific population of students, no matter how badly the student wants to attend or how much a member or the university faculty or staff wants a student to enroll at the university. The Muskingum University Athletic Department continues to put pressure on the Admission and Financial…

But Title IX has changed the atmosphere of college sports mostly, because colleges are forced to make women’s athletic scholarships equal to the number of men’s scholarships given out to athletes. d. Some may say that men’s sports are now being discriminated against because their programs have to cut teams and reduce the number of scholarships given out, and this is a major reason they think Title IX should be eliminated. e. Are there flaws in Title IX? Yes. I believe that…

offer athletic scholarships and the academic cash is heavily contested. Their upper level brethren do not fare any better when on average on an average 150 man squad, just about half receive any aid at all let alone a full athletic scholarship. In other words some athletes are taken care of while others are not and this is a travesty. Here you have young men and women who put their bodies on the line day in and day, study late into the night are held to the same standards as there non-athletic…

However, on the other hand, we have the impact of Title IX and scholarships on men. “Title IX has caused a decrease in opportunities for male athletes [again looking at the athletic aspect of it all], and Title IX is to blame for programs and scholarship cuts” (Hammer 2003 in athleticscholarships.net). Men no longer had the same opportunities as they had before 1972. Their scholarship opportunities decreased because of the increase in scholarships for women. This is considered a negative impact…

Men’s Athletics and Title IX Title IX was passed in 1972 as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and it protects both women and men from discrimination based on sex. The 1972 version of Title IX does not mention sports or athletics once (Goldman, 2012). In 1975, Title IX was updated to prohibit sex discrimination of athletes at educational institutions who received federal funding (Owoc, n.d.). The update required that any athlete competing in interscholastic, club, intercollegiate or…

play is far from a “professional.” Student athletes must never receive compensation during college play. Universities cannot afford to pay a salary to an athlete. Athletic programs receive donations from past alumni and / or corporations, part of these donations help with the astronomically high costs of buying or maintenance of all athletic equipment, new renovations of existing buildings, or improving their stadium, such as what Auburn University did in 2015. They installed close to an…

that schools should focus on sports, schools and students should focus on sports because academics give a better chance to get a college scholarship, focusing on both can put stress on a student, and focusing on sports send the wrong message or lesson about life. Some people claim that schools that focus on sports get most of their students full athletic scholarships to go to colleges. In the article “High-School Sports Aren 't Killing Academics”, the authors Daniel H. Bowen and Colin Hitt,…

Glen Este High School Athletic Boosters Scholarship During my freshmen year at Glen Este High School, I was a part of the volleyball team. From being involved in athletics, even though it was just for a year, I have learned valuable life lessons such as teamwork, confidence, and has promoted me to carry out an active lifestyle. First of all, from playing volleyball, I began to value teamwork since it taught me how to collaborate with a group of people working towards a common goal. This…

the boys that played sports had received scholarships to go play in college, but very few girls were getting good scholarships to places they wanted to go. One of the girls had been a varsity basketball player all four years of high school and she always started on the team, but she was not getting the scholarships she deserved. She was always working hard and practicing on and off season to improve to the best of her ability. A boy that received a scholarship to play basketball, did not even…

use the scholarship to their advantage to help in school. College athletes are some of the most intense players in all of amateur and professional sports. These college players are even sometimes better than some professional player in their prime time in college. These college players play their hearts out to make it professionally, so that they can eventually get paid for doing something they love. These athletes receive many awards over their college careers and can earn scholarships for…