The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) requires student athletes to maintain a 2.5 grade point average in at least nine academic credits to be eligible to compete in their respective sport (NCAA‚ 2011). A study conducted in 2004 found academic performance to be the leading cause of stress amongst university students (DeBerard‚ Spielmans‚ & Julka‚ 2004). According to Anderson and Williams’ (1988) stress injury model‚ athletes experience more physical injuries during periods of high stress
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Behind every teacher is a student‚ behind every coach is an athlete‚ and behind every student-athlete is potential. One might believe that there are two sides to what is deemed student-athlete potential; a negative side that may lead to struggling academically and a positive side that increases academic achievements. As stated in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ (n.d. para. 1) potential is defined as‚ “Existing in possibility; capable of development into actuality.” It can be concluded that potential
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Though paying for other sports is a big setback to paying college football & basketball athletes another problem is posed when people bring up the beloved term "student-athletes." The kids that are heavily recruited are usually in bad situations and this is their way to get out of that but being a "student-athlete" or "amateur" bars them from any sort of economic advancement. Roughly twenty percent of the athletes graduate with degrees before their football careers are over‚ and all they are left with
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Should College Athletes be Paid? “Student athlete. Student comes first”. The question everyone asks is should college athletes be paid? There are many differences in a college athlete and a professional athlete. The thing about paying college athletes is they would just spend all their money on things that they do not need. College athletes should not be paid because they are still student athletes‚ being paid would take the intensity out of the game‚ they would not be focused on their grades‚ and
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Nowadays‚ students have a lack of motivation when it comes to putting the effort and hard work in school to get good grades. This issue has caused school districts to come up with ideas to motivate students from new generations to have higher test scores. One ideas is to give students with high test scores a cash bonus. School should not offer this kind of "bonus" for high-test scores because of several reasons‚ for some of them‚ it would increase the cheating percentage and it would be unfair for
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In today’s society‚ student athletes have begun play the game only for individual satisfaction. Sports such as football‚ volleyball‚ basketball‚ and baseball are now full of players with selfish attitudes instead of having team-driven mindsets. Athletes have lost their hope in coaches who do not give 100 percent devotion to their team during practice or game time. If a coach cannot give his or her all to the team‚ then neither should the players. Both coaches and student athletes must be able to come
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29 September 2010 On Being a Student Athlete A student athlete is a person that participates in a sport that the educational institution‚ in which he or she is enrolled in‚ sponsors. Although‚ this may sound fun and easy it is the complete opposite. Being a student athlete is stressful and hard. Sometimes being a student athlete becomes so stressful and hard that it begins to be questioned “Do I want to be a student athlete anymore?” Not all student athletes are on scholarship which means that
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society developed‚ more and more problems emerge. Many people start to use drugs to kill time but it also causes severe influence on the society since drugs have different side-effect and many people use them to do crimes. Government started to use drug education and imprisonment to educate people that drugs are not good for people and to punish those who use it to do crimes. However‚ people started to find out that drug education is not helpful and inefficient. Besides‚ imprisonment also causes
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Cause and effect Student Athletes The demands of being a student-athlete in high school or college can be extremely challenging in terms of budgeting your time for your academics/school work‚ and what little free time that remains for social activities‚ or one ’s personal life. In this essay I will discuss the effects about being a student athlete because many people think that student athletes have there life easy but in actuality they have to deal with things that regular students would not be dealing
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Should College Athletes be Paid? General Purpose Statement: to convince Specific Purpose Statement: By the end of my presentation‚ I hope to convince you on the fact that college athletes should not be paid to play their sport(s). Attention Getter: When you go from playing sports in college to playing sports in the major league‚ what changes? Your title goes from student athlete to professional athlete. Notice how while in college‚ your title is student athlete‚ not professional. You are
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