Wonderful World Of Eligibility In High School Sports

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Wonderful World of Eligibility In the world of sports, eligibility is a word that a lot of athletes don’t like to hear. Whether it is in high school sports or college maintaining the grades to have eligibility doesn’t seem that hard, but it is a little harder than athletes think. I want to research this topic because I know that it has been a problem in our school and I also know that is a problem in college as well. The topic of stricter guidelines on the academic side of athletic eligibility doesn’t really go side by side with the best thing to learn about in high school. With that being said my development as a college student and golfer, I know that I will need to pay attention to my grades and classes as I do on the golf course. Athletic …show more content…

Most of those people are college students and athletes. On the other side of that there are many people who think that the restrictions should be tightened from a 2.0 GPA to at least a 2.5 or 3.0 GPA. I know that being a student athlete is stressful with practice, classes, morning weights, and homework, it all compiles together to be a big stressful mess that not many people would be able to handle. Athletic eligibility is a very big part of athletes lives, as it stands at 2.0, athletes can also benefit academically if it were raised and the University would receive a higher graduation …show more content…

They look for grades first more often than not. Merlin Rajan who works for Essay Works, has an article on their website that shows why students should have good grades to play sports. Rajan writes, “Coaches look for students with good grades, not only playing ability. It is to one's benefit to have good grades. The NCAA, will not allow students to play sports unless they meet the required GPA and standardized test score. This means that coaches do not have any other choice but to only accept the students with good grades.” (Rajan). This shows that in high school, if you would like to play a sport at a high level, then you really need to get good grades. Many people think that you can not do well in classes and get a full athletic scholarship because the academic side of the scholarships don’t matter. Well, as Rajan said any NCAA school (like Iowa, Iowa State, and UNI) require standards in the ACT and SAT as well as having good

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