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Participating in Team Sports Helps to Develop Good Character Good Character Professor
Good Character
Participating in team sports helps to develop good character. Why? Because studies on sports participation have found that sports have a positive influence on character buildings. Sporting activities instill a certain leadership quality that enables athletes with the abilities to assist, motivate, and develop others in need of special guidance. The positive character traits such as personality and social responsibility was believed can and should be taught and learned in a sport and physical activity setting (Omar-Fauzee, 2012). An active involvement in sports can help individuals to learn skills, sportsmanship, strategies, commitment, respect and disciplines. In sports, while training hard mentally and physically, the traits referenced above reflect heavily upon the developmental process of having good character. Given an in depth analysis on why participating in team sports helps to develop good character, the strategies of these traits will be suggested throughout this paper.
If you take great athletes such as Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant, these basketball players had to prepare themselves mentally and physically before every game that they have played and by displaying self determination and discipline they were able to lead their teams to multiple National Basketball Association (NBA) Championships. Without good leadership qualities and good character, you cannot play a role of this magnitude and go the distance with fellow teammates and expect them to trust you merely off of skill alone. Being skillful or labeled the best at any sport won’t earn you your teammates trust, but to show that you are committed in making players around you better is a winning attitude that will give them that same drive, determination, and motivation.
The saying “sport builds character” is dated all the way back in modern history. This
Good Character
Participating in team sports helps to develop good character. Why? Because studies on sports participation have found that sports have a positive influence on character buildings. Sporting activities instill a certain leadership quality that enables athletes with the abilities to assist, motivate, and develop others in need of special guidance. The positive character traits such as personality and social responsibility was believed can and should be taught and learned in a sport and physical activity setting (Omar-Fauzee, 2012). An active involvement in sports can help individuals to learn skills, sportsmanship, strategies, commitment, respect and disciplines. In sports, while training hard mentally and physically, the traits referenced above reflect heavily upon the developmental process of having good character. Given an in depth analysis on why participating in team sports helps to develop good character, the strategies of these traits will be suggested throughout this paper.
If you take great athletes such as Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant, these basketball players had to prepare themselves mentally and physically before every game that they have played and by displaying self determination and discipline they were able to lead their teams to multiple National Basketball Association (NBA) Championships. Without good leadership qualities and good character, you cannot play a role of this magnitude and go the distance with fellow teammates and expect them to trust you merely off of skill alone. Being skillful or labeled the best at any sport won’t earn you your teammates trust, but to show that you are committed in making players around you better is a winning attitude that will give them that same drive, determination, and motivation.
The saying “sport builds character” is dated all the way back in modern history. This
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