College athletes are participants. They choose if they want to play sports at the collegiate level. College athletes are amateurs who choose to play at the intermediate level. Horace Mitchell points out”Student-athletes are amateurs who choose to participate in intercollegiate athletics as part of their education experience…” Horace Mitchell is informing you that they do not play sports …show more content…
College athletes are students first before they athletes. Kenneth J. Cooper acknowledges “ Athletes don’t have free choice what major they take if the classes conflict with practice schedules. Amy McCormick says, That’s one fact that flies in the face of the idea that they’re primarily students and secondarily athletes.” Kenneth address how the college athletes are students first before they consider themselves athletes. College athletes are not considered employees either. Kenneth J. Cooper argues that “The NCAA,in accordance with courts that have addressed the issue,believes that student-athletes are not employees, under the law, and that they should nor be treated as employees either by the law or by the schools they attend, Remy says.” Kenneth is trying to show how the NCAA doesn't want the student athletes to be treated like