Why High School Sports Are Bad

High school sports are a thing people tend to associate with a lot of other things. Some of them are good, some of them are bad. Their association with these things make people wonder if we should have them in our schools, and the answer is, rather obviously, no. While sports have some benefits, they are more harm than good because of the injuries they cause, the scholarships they don’t provide and the funding it takes from other extracurricular activities. Perhaps the biggest problem youth sports is the numerous injuries it has been known to cause. According to study conducted at the Center For Injury Research and Policy At Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, there were about 517,726 football related injuries alone in the 2005-2006 football season alone, as well as an additional 3,500 injuries were reported by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The same study Also finds that high school athletes suffer 4.36 injuries per 1000 “athlete exposures”. Furthermore, the journal of pediatrics states that ”concussions have tripled in the last year” and that they are “up from 7000 to 22000 a year.
Pressure to get a sports scholarship is also a problem facing many student athletes. According to statistics, the chances of a student athlete getting a sports scholarship is low, with on 11 percent of all hockey players getting a scholarship, only 6 percent for baseball, 5.5 percent for football and 3 percent for basketball. Moreover, he says that “playing sports can be extra hard when your parents are riding you to get a scholarship and it is entirely possible that athletes under pressure will perform worse, Dr Gray saying supporting the fact that “your son or daughter’s team will suffer” if you are putting pressure on them to get a