Team sport

explains how my lacrosse career began. I was in 6th grade and it was the first time I had ever picked up a lacrosse stick. I picked it up and was skeptical about the sport because it seemed as if it was impossible to catch or pass a ball. I played for a Wheeler high school club team for my first time ever, I can say they were not a good team. The coach was harsh and tough on the beginners like myself and he made me want to quit playing. Mid way through the season he put me in the game and I had…

for these sports and paintball, presents all of these statistics out of 100,000 exposures each year. “Paintball: 0.2, Tackle Football/Downhill Skiing: 3.8, Ice Hockey: 3.7, and Soccer/Baseball: 2.8”. Paintball is only 0.2 injuries per 100,000, compared to soccer at 2.8. That is astonishing. The predetermined assumption that any other sport is safer than paintball is proven inaccurate by these statistics, paintball doesn’t even compare to the amount of injuries retained by other sports. This is…

mother’s high school yearbooks with her, I realize a volleyball team is not pictured in the book. When I ask my mom why, she replies they did not have a volleyball team. The news of this came to as a surprise to me because I have always noticed volleyball as a popular and growing sport. Evidently, volleyball has not always been as popular as it is today. I attend Dyer County High School just like my mother did, but when she attended the sport to play was basketball. Dyer County did not start…

had signed me up for several sports and I had always loved the physicality and mental fortitude involved when competing. I am also a very competitive person, and the sports I played provided me another outlet for my competitive spirit. But it wasn’t until seventh grade that I found the sport that I fell in love with. Since I joined volleyball two years after most of my peers, I was put on the “B-team.” I was determined to work as hard as I could to make the “A-team” the next year.…

numerous trends in the sports industry.…

some people think swimming isn’t a sport? Awesomely swimming has been around for centuries, but most people like it for entertainment. Luckily, people learn how to swim because it’s an essential skill that should be, but unfortunately almost required in life and parents want them to be safe, but other people learn for different reasons. Some learn it because you can actively perform it your entire life. Amazingly others pursue this sport because it’s the sport they dream about and want to do it…

business and team is erroneous. It’s important to consider the types of groups where loyalty is appropriate. Bok says, “since (the whistleblower)…

acceptable level. In life you must also learn the basics. You must establish what life is, what it means to you and want you from it. Basketball is a team sport, which means it requires contribution and cooperation from every member in order to play well and win. Everyone must focus, work together and fulfill their individual roles for the common good of the team. Not only was basketball teaching me how to act after a game, but teaching me life lessons. I believe that life isn’t fair, and I…

First, if my team truly had reached a level of cohesion to give me peace of mind in everyone’s efforts to achieve such a level, it would be evident to my staff and any bystanders that the team exhibited team spirit, which is a “genuine consideration for others” where each athlete displays an “eagerness to sacrifice personal interests of glory for the welfare of all” (Wooden & Carty, 2005). Vividly displayed in the movie Rudy, the team captain (formal leader) took the initiative to not dress out…

Paying Student Athletes Success isn’t given. It's earned. On the track, on the field, in the gym. With blood, sweat, and the occasional tear. Most every athlete loves the game, and is willing to work their butt off, from being on the B team going to the A team, from jv to varsity, from high school to college. They all dream of that college scholarship that they may or not receive. What happens when they get there? They no longer have their mommies and daddies paying for every little thing.…