Track And Field Athlete

Sports are so glorified in some areas that schools will put athletics in front of academics. This is exactly what happened the book Friday Night Lights by H.G Bissinger. BIssinger explains that the town of Odessa houses the school Permian where everyone grows up on football. The school and the town give so much praise to the football team that some football players couldn 't care less about class and eventually the teachers don’t care how those players do in class. Mount Vernon is a place where the students are expected to do well in class first and everything else is second. The school has extracurriculars, but knows the school’s main job is to give students an education. Permian and Mount Vernon are opposites on the scale of sports and

All those athletes training most of their lives to be where they are and just have the school give up on them is just heartbreaking. What could be even worse is if students with outstanding grades were able to get into a good school but do not have enough merit funds to get into the school because the school’s main focus is attempting to pay their athletes. All students going to the same school should be equal, so consequently there is no reason why some should not be accepted for what they do best and others not be able to do what they love. Contrary to popular belief, colleges are not making huge profits because they are schools and not

Athletes at school might get carried away just focusing on their sport. Playing a sport might not be a distraction and the student could just be stressing academically. They might be using their hobby to relieve stress, but this can lead throwing away their education as well. Education should be the number one priority. Honor roll, or just average grades in general, will increase the chances of students getting accepted to the college of their choice. If an individual wants to do the things he or she loves, college will play an important factor. Setting this rule for athletes will motivate them to do well in school if they really love the sport they

Do sports and grades have a relationship, or not? According to Should student athletes have to get good grades to play sports? Grade and sports are polar opposites, they have nothing to do with each other. If someone has the potential to become a great athlete, nothing should come of that.

Rebecca Lobo once said“Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.” many athletes should read these and apply it to their life because college isn't about trying to play in the pros if you're an athlete sure you can have a dream, but you need to also get a degree that should be the main focus not getting a tryout or an audition for the pros. Every year around one hundred seventy-seven thousand athletic scholarships is given out to those that stood out in their sport, whether it was basketball, football, or even baseball. The kids receiving these scholarships are given a free

According to Horace Mitchell “collegiate athletes are students receiving access to a college education through their participation in sports.” Yes, but it’s not like they are VIP's. Most athletes still have to pay for some of their tuition and all athletes have to go to class. They do everything a non-athlete would do but, they have more stress upon them because they have to maintain a B average in order to play their sport. Athletes are under a tremendous amount of pressure not only from their sport but from keeping up with their studies also. All of that hard work deserves a

The journal cites the Center for the Study of Athletics that showed that, “95 percent of basketball and football players indicated that earning a college degree was important to them. Unfortunately, one third of these same student athletes earned a GPA of less than 2.0, which severely limits the chances of earning a college degree” (Gatson-Gayles). Not only is this one third of students at risk of not earning a college degree, but the entire group as a whole might not even be successful post college even if they do graduate with a college degree. The reason for this is because a majority of African American male student athletes choose majors and degrees that do not have much value for them personally and can do little to help them be financially secure. Lois Elfman of the article Are Minority Football Players Being Pushed into Pointless Majors? interviewed Professor Jeffrey Fountain and Peter Finley, authors of a research study and analysis on comparing the academic clustering of minority and white student athletes. In the interview Fountain describes something that is becoming an increasing issue in collegiate sports, “A couple of years ago, I just happened to be looking at the media guide for the University of Miami [football team] and noticed as I was going through it that every

Athletes shouldn't don't need the amount of education other jobs require. Out of the three major sports in the United States (Football, Baseball, an Basketball) they require hardly any education to enter into their desired game. The NBA only requires one year of college, Along with the MLB requiring no education at all. Comparing this to a doctor is insane. Most doctors have to attend college for 8 years. While these athletes are taking their education for granted, people are out there working

Black student-athletes are taught to value sports over academics at a young age because it is seen as the “only way out”. Black student-athletes are heralded for their athletic prowess from middle school up, so they begin to focus less on their education and more on their sport. Unfortunately, so do the teachers. Black student-athletes are more often than not just given passes, as schools value what their athletic abilities could do for them over the academic success of the athlete. Even normal black students can be seen the same way just because of the perception that they might be an athlete. The sad truth is that the athletes that don’t make it to the professional level are left without the education needed to be successful.

Students should not be able to play sports with a low GPA. Students should have good grades to play sports, because it is not fair to other students who play sports and keep their grades up. You can not get into college just for sports. You need to have a high GPA too. Other people need sports to help them get good grades. Student athletes should have to maintain a certain grade point average to participate in sports because it helps them develop life skills, gives them a future, and helps them with their confidence.

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College athletes play for an organization called the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCCA). The NCAA has so much control over these athletes, that they even control their educational requirements. The NCAA requires all college athletes to maintain a 2.5 average on a course load of at least 12 credits each semester. Some might say this is not a hard requirement to maintain, but one must remember while playing a college sport, time is limited and some athletes struggle to find time to get everything done. If a player is not able to maintain these requirements, he or she might lose their scholarship if they are on one. After all, college sports are big business, colleges are exploiting these young athletes making tons of money off of players, while these young men themselves don't even have pocket money to spend.

These days, teachers pass school athletes in order for them to continue playing. They don’t care whether or not if they do the homework or actually understand what is being taught, as long as they keep the school wining in that certain sport then they will pass. Henry Gates stated, “The failure of our public schools to educate athletes is part and parcel of the schools’ failure to educate almost everyone”. Most young black athletes can’t read or write but they still get passed year to year. It’s know that 26.6% of black athletes at the college level earn their degree, which means that they didn’t have enough pass knowledge to continue to excel in higher education and they still didn’t make that goal of being a professional athlete.

Some people think the life of student track and field athletes is easy, but their wrong it is hard. I was an athlete. An athlete has a lot of thing to do. I start to do track and field when I was in junior high school in eighth grade. My pet events were long jump and 400 meter. I had training right after school every school day. I use to reach home in the night around 7:00 – 8:00pm. Although I reach home late I still have my home work to do, study and sometime cook my dinner. It was not had at first even when a reach ninth grade. I became the head boy of my school and a co-captain of the tracks team where I have more responsible. It got a little hard be I made it thought.

So you want to be a pro athlete? Being an pro takes commitment, practice, and persistence. You train for years and sometimes you fail. Some big names in college or high school sometimes fail at performing in their respective pro leagues or in college. Training is an part of the commitment. As Derek Jeter said “There may be more people that are better than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” Training isn’t just for physical abilities. Mental training is also important because it’s easier to beat yourself up from a, loss than to say oh well I’ll try again or what John Madden said “The road to easy street goes through the sewer.”