This article states in paragraph 1, "Middle and high school students who participate in sports express less hostility toward their classmates and are more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college, according to the preliminary results of an ongoing national study." By participating in some sort of sport or athletics, students appear to be a lot nicer and more caring of their peers and everyone else around them. There is also a bigger chance of an athlete to finish high school and go on to college to get a better education. I don't know what it is about athletics, but more athletes appear to attend college than other students who are not involved in anything. Also stated in this article, in paragraph 5, it says, "Preliminary analyses also show that schools where teachers and principals report placing strong emphasis on sports and extracurricular activities experience lower levels of conflict among students of different races." Being on a team teaches you a lot of life lessons and pretty much opens your eyes to the rest of the world. A lot of students make fun of or criticize someone else because maybe they're not the same color as them, or they speak a different language, but being on a team allows you to be around more of these types of people and get to know them. More athletes are less likely to bully or make fun of someone who's different than themselves for that reason.
Located in paragraph 2, the article says, "Sports require teamwork in the pursuit of mutual goals to achieve success. With sports, young people learn to recognize and value the unique and important contributions of their diverse teammates." Learning new things about life and everything else is a huge part to growing up and becoming a responsible adult. Being involved in a sport and being on a team is a huge part of that. There are so many new things and aspects of the game and life that can be learned through athletics without even realizing it. Data supported in the article, in paragraph 3, says, "African American student-athletes are 10 percent more likely than non-athletes to plan to take college AP courses and 10 percent more likely to make plans for attending college." I think the rule of not being able to play your specific sport unless you make the grades has a lot to do with the success in the classroom by all athletes. No athlete wants to be told they can't play their sport that they love. So in order to continue and have fun and do what they love to do, they have to keep business taken care of in the classroom which leads to great educational success by athletes everywhere.
Being on a team and deeply involved in a sport can teach you so many different life lessons that you don't even realize. I know that I, myself, have learned so much by being several different teams and being really involved in at least 2 different sports. I have learned to work well with other people, which is actually led me to meet so many new people and make new friends as well. It has also taught me many different little lessons such as, "you get what you put out" or "believe you can do it, and you will" just to name a couple of examples. Being on a team and involved in something so amazing does a lot for yourself and impacts the rest of your life. The stuff you learn will forever stay with you and will be something you can use anytime while growing up.
Whether people realize it or not, the impact athletics has on kids and teens is unbelievable. Being an athlete myself, I can really relate anything an athlete is going through or experiencing. Believe it or not, but being involved in a sport actually helps your grades out and will more than likely cause you to attend college and get the best education you possibly can. Sports affect students in many positive ways and teach so many different lessons about life that will stick with you and help you grow into the most amazing person everyone knows you can be.
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