Student athlete

opportunity to join your Athlete Representation department as an intern. I have been appointed on the University of Illinois Board of Athletics by the Chancellor of the University, because of my passion for advocating for the wellbeing of all student-athletes. I am also currently serving on the Athletics’ Department’s Diversity & Inclusion committee to bring my perspective of both a student, athlete and professional to the table, ensuring that the voice of student-athletes and employees…

is charging student athletes to play in their sport. I believe all schools should institute these “pay-to-play” policies. These policies are needed because money could be spent on more important things, schools simply do not have the funding, and less students would quit their sport. But, schools should still give some funding to athletics and these fees should not affect playing time. Also, these fees students pay should not be an absurd amount. Forcing high school athletes to pay for…

The top NCAA coach makes around $1 million dollars a year, not to mention bonuses that may be earned. How much do the athletes themselves make?…

Students and students athletes should be randomly drug tested. About 570,000people die in the U.S. due to drug use. That makes it to more than 480,000 deaths related to tobacco, about 31,000 due to alcohol, nearly 22,000 due to overdose from illegal drugs, and close to 23,000 due to overdose from prescription pain relievers(teens, NIDA for). Students should be randomly drug tested because drugs give students advantages in sports, a lot of students get bored of their life, teens are hiding it…

I haven't always been a student athlete, I started competing in Track in 8th grade and continued Track in 9th grade. To start Track when I did was a split second decision, the night before registration I decided to play a sport for the first time since 6th grade and I never looked back. At the end of the 9th grade track season I realized that I wanted to do more sport it also helped that all my track teammates who played football. Were all like “SAM you have to play FOOTBALL next season.”…

Over the course of time students have been waking up before the sun comes up.In many ways, this has been beneficial to students, starting later means ending later.However, starting later means ending later. This gives students the negative outcome of school,however, it's a waste of time doing all this work to change school start times.Clearly changing school times is a waste of energy instead of being helpful to most students. Getting to school later is a good idea, it will improve your…

In the last few years, there have been many news reports pertaining to the injury or death of student athletics as they are playing sports. Many of these reports, once investigated, have said that the cause of death was the use of drugs, drug overdose, or complications stemming from the use of drugs. Therefore, many of us believe that the school or district has a responsibility to random drug test student athletics as a requirement to participating in any sporting activity. I, along with…

All of over the country, there are many young boys who play basketball at a very competitive level. When asked, most of them would say that they want to be a professional basketball player when they get older and play in the National Basketball Association known as the NBA. Some of these players, who tend to have very special talents playing basketball, actually are gifted enough to play professionally right out of high school. Their goal is to get to NBA as quickly as possible, but they have to…

Division I student-athletes, approximately 53 percent of them have a scholarship of some sort. College athletics are becoming more and more popular each year. Along with the rise in popularity that these collegiate sports have, is an increase in revenue. The issue that is constantly coming up with colleges, specifically regarding sports in this day and age, is the question of whether or not college athletes deserve to get paid. The NCAA currently does not have a plan to pay student athletes,…

Student Athletes Play for Success “We all care about our students’ success, and participating in sports programs in school helps students to have a better future.” More than 7.6 million students played high school sports during school year, more students are attending high school sport which causes that number to increase each year. Even though some people believe sport programs at school will hurt student physically and academically Schools should have sports programs because student athlete…