Benefits Of High School Sports Essay

For many americans, sports are a common staple of a weekly schedule with intentions not in vain. It widely known that sports have many benefits that will be discussed in this paper. For one, sports have been proven to have educational benefits . In addition to this, children who participate in sports have increased educational and occupational aspirations as well as a surprising low injury rate for more physical sports. In summary, sports should not be removed or atleast drastically changed due to their educational benefits, increased drive in the players to pursue goals, low injury rate when put into perspective.

In the article “Are High School Sports Good for kids?” the Author reveals the potential educational benefits student being. FIrstly,

the first benefit of playing sports being the development of initiative. In relation, to this it's also stated in the article that sports also help build character and good citizenship traits. Not to mention how some sports teams teach the importance of winning but don’t show it to be the main priority. But in the Authors attempt to generalize the benefits to all sports he doesn’t include how some sports help teach good team work and strategizing skills, two debatable important life skills.
Although some may argue that sports are too dangerous in exchange for the benefits you recieve from them.

Furtherly, in “High School, College Football comes with Risk” an article bringing to light the negative of sports goes on to states that ”Not unexpectedly, college players were about twice as likely to injure themselves as high school students, Comstock said, suffering 8.6 injuries per “athletic-exposures”...compared with high school athletes’ 4.36 injuries / 1000”(Perkel, np). When we take this into account for the debatable most physical sport in America (Football), and we take in account that the average amount of athletic exposures for a season would be somewhere around 90 times. In conclusion, if the statistics are indeed right then if the math is correct than the high school players have an .4% chance of receiving a major injury during a season a small drop comparably to chances of getting a potentially lethal illness. Furthermore, the author later goes on to reveal that ”...Comstock also emphasized that parents should not use her team’s study as an excuse to take their children out of football...sports is one of the best ways for kids to incorporate exercise in their lives”(Perkel,pg2) .Therefore, not only is they risk minimal and the researcher admits that the sport should stay, but also that obesity is arguable more lethal and more impactful than the unlikely injury that can be obtained from playing

football.
Lastly, football and other high school sports in addition to their educational benefits it also promotes higher educational and occupational aspirations. But this isn’t just some talk with know support, as in the article “Are High School Sports Good For Kids” it states ”interscholastic activities which provide equitable opportunities, positive recognition and learning experiences to students while maximizing the achievement of educational goals”(Gould,pg1). In relation to the topic sentence, the article also includes ”...a multi year study connected in Michigan has shown that children who participate in sports have increased educational aspirations, closer ties to school and increased occupational aspirations in youth”(Gould,pg1). All in all not only do sports teach players life lessons but also improve their passion for school.
In conclusion, this paper has shown the benefits of high school sports and why they should be kept in schools. As shown by the educational benefits, increased drive in the players to pursue goals, low injury rate when put into perspective. So it’s recommended that the reader of this text if you find that a school is closing down its sport activities, then remind them that their sole purpose is to put the student first and show them of the benefits of sports and help work it out.