Track and field athletics

like me dream to be an all-American college athlete and become that superstar in the big leagues. The NCAA has been around since 1910 and regulates 1,259 schools/institutions, conferences, or any other association(NCAA.org). The NCAA organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The great part is it helps more the 460,000-college…

She doesn’t have a favorite relative since she doesn’t like favoritism. Her most cherished memory with her relatives is eating Korean food together,“ I just love food.” She also enjoys going golfing with her family “in a golf field in Maryland”. Jessica is a very athletic person. She is best at basketball and ice skates out of all the sports. Due to her busy schedule, she had to give up tennis, jump…

have been just as good and powerful in athletic sports just like the males. So, yes I Agree that Female athletes should be able to play with the boys. Futhermore, female athletes are starting to get more and more involved with with sports that are predominatly played by males. For instance, In a research study the statistics have shown that more females have been into playing Football,Basketball and Track more than males athletes. Plus,Football,Basketball and Track are predominatly played by…

3/21/18 The Dust Bowl Film (sections of disk one and two) This film talks about the difficulties of the Dust Bowl and shows the destruction it caused. This film talks about the viewpoints of the people who lived through it. It mentions how historians have viewed this disaster as well. It gives lots of information about this historical event. The Dust Bowl occurred during the time of the economic disaster of the Great Depression. It mentions how daily events like the sun shinning were changed…

I love sports and sporting events. Athletic trainers get to travel with them team and stand on the field with the team. The team pays for everything the athletic trainer does. The team also buys the athletic trainers whole uniform which is generally a pair of really nice tennis shoes and a nice shirt with slacks. Being an athletic trainer will allow me to interact with the players. If I do athletic training on a professional level I will get to meet many cool and interesting pro athletes! I…

Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes to ever walk this earth, lived his teenage years attending a Native American boarding school, speifcally attending the Sac and Fox Indian Agency school in Stroud, Oklahoma, then the Haskell Institute, which is an Indian boarding school located in Lawrence, Kansas, and finally attending college at the infamous Carlisle boarding school. However, Jim’s story does not start at his education, it begins at his Native American roots. On the morning of May 28th,…

Sally Jenkins brought up that college athletes should be paid for the work they do on the field/court/track or at least be able to major in the sport they play. She starts off by listing the different courses and classes an athlete could take to succeed in such a degree. Courses such as “Introduction to Sports Law”, “The Origin of Sports”, and “Ethic Rules”. These courses would not only allow the student athletes to learn more about the sport they are interested in and making the college money…

Marla Runyan: A Visually Impaired Athlete Marla Runyan is a world-class track and field athlete, who competed for the United States Olympic Team in 2000. She also happens to have Stargardt’s disease, which makes her legally blind. Marla once said, “If I break a national record, maybe they will stop writing about my eyes” (LaFontaine 228). There are 285 million people that are visually impaired in the world (WHO). Of those people, 248 million have low vision and thirty-nine million are blind…

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College Athlete Compensation A popular issue in the world of sports today is the compensation of college athletes. The big question is, how much compensation do these college students deserve for being part of the school’s athletic program? These kids train hard, risk injury and give their sport their all every day while they still are on a college schedule taking regular courses. By generating ticket and merchandise sales, these kids make an enormous amount of money for the Universities and…