NICA Argumentative Essay

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Cycling has a multitude of benefits, more than getting from one place to another. Cycling improves your cardiovascular system, nervous system, muscular structure, and helps to build your core strength, just name a few. However, once kids reach junior high and high school cycling as a whole starts to wane or becomes a distant memory. NICA, National Interscholastic Cycling Association has recognized this issue and has taken actions to get kids off the electronics and back outside where they are socializing face to face with others and getting back into the habit exercising. The military, seeing the results of NICA’s actions has decided to aid NICA to help not only those in the Armed Forces, but their families as well through the MWR, Moral …show more content…

Students and volunteers, including coaches are prohibited from consuming any caffeine during a race weekend. NICA has deemed the substance inappropriate for our youth, thus banning them from races, and practices. This also includes any students that use tobacco. If a student is caught using such products, they may only race providing they show proof of enrollment into a stop smoking or chewing class that is effective immediately. They also have to provide proof of the completion of said course and must refrain from using such products in the future. Any student athlete that violates the substance abuse rules are subject to banishment from racing in upcoming races and or NICA as a …show more content…

We have the opportunity to volunteer and become coaches, course and feed zone marshals, infield medical staff and support, staging officials, and sweepers. Sweepers actually take the course with the students and ride behind the pack to ensure fair sportsmanship and to provide on the spot medical treatment in the case of emergencies. Volunteers have to go through a background check in order to work with our youth, along with medical training that includes how to recognize a concussion. Three levels of licensing are obtainable with a level one license being a minimum requirement to begin

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