Some of those reasons were because sports are fun and competitive, because our friends played or because of the status that we gained from playing these sports. Most of us did not realize the intangibles that we would gain from playing sports and these traits would build self esteem. Things such as confidence, responsibility, and sociability are intangibles that cannot be taught but can be instilled by playing and experiencing sports at a young age. When children begin playing sports with 2 their peers they are put into situations where they begin to compete against one another, they begin to socialize, build cohesion and become a team. When a child learns to become a team player they build confidence in his/her ability execute their part.
With that power comes responsibility. The lessons that sports can teach and the role that coaches play can often relate to those of a social worker. The movie Coach Carter is a prime example of how a coach of a basketball team plays an instrumental role in the development of troubled young men in both basketball and life by realizing their issues and working with them how he saw fit. Much of how Coach Ken Carter handled his team can be directly related to the Multicultural Theory on Human Behavior. While Coach Carter is not truly a social work practitioner, much of how he coached his players can be related to the Multicultural Theory.
The prices of tickets are outrageous. Position 3: Forcing athletes to give back time by doing community service is great. It forces them to portray a positive attitude about being an athlete. My personal interest in the role of an athlete is serious, because a professional athlete wasn’t just given that position, or job, he or she had to earn it through hard work and dedication, and somewhere along the line in their youth another professional athlete inspired them to want to be
Americans think differently from Chinese people because we have more independence than them. In the book the Brave Dragons, the team had to go through these difficult and extensive training sessions that were supposed to get them better. Derek Jeter is an example, in his career he had to become a better player because he was doing too many mistakes. To get better he went to a training camp where he practice his catching skills and also his batting skills. When we talk about the different paradigm between the American and the Chinese, Derek Jeter accomplishment apply to the American paradigm because Jeter loved baseball since he was a little boy and always knew he was going to join the New York Yankees.
From there he learned about who was a good influence for him, and who he should stop hanging out with because they would get him in trouble. He is now an attorney with a B.A., M.P.A, and J.D. He is in charge of a lot of different youth programs in the San Francisco community because he really cares about keeping kids out of the judicial system and setting them down the right path. He feels that sports help motivate kids to compete among themselves both physically and academically. He started track in high school and he attributes that and his good relationship with his family to his success.
We Beat the Street gives youth the eye and encouragement to become determined to succeed by reaching out to educate and mentoring them about how significant life is. They portray to youth the moments in their life when they had to live above the influence and depend on each other for strength. We Beat the Street teaches youth a valuable lesson of making mistakes and how they can ruin everything. For example Rameck picked fights with people that could have cost him his whole future. Each time he made a mistake he was very close to jeopardizing everything just for acting foolish.
Let’s face it, some kids are just better than others. When you bring a group of kids together to play a sport that requires skill, there are bound to be players that are exemplary, and in the wonderful world of sports we play to win. It’s really as simple as that. If Muscular Michael is faster, stronger, and/or tries harder than Little Luke, it only makes sense that Michael should play more than Luke does. People may argue that some players perform better under pressure however anxiety causes stress and not only will the coach be upset if one player costs them a game, but the team will be frustrated as well.
It’s called Rock ‘n’ Roll and it had parents, teachers, and politicians worried for the youth of America. Rock ‘n’ Roll was the first of its kind in that the vocals were not always the center of discourse, but the body language of the performers and the beat of the music moved the audience a lot of times…Rock and Roll was elemental, savage, dripping with sex; it was just as our parents feared” (8). The reason for the fear: Rock ‘n’ Roll evolved from recordings by African-American artists known
However, athletic coaches gain additional opportunity for communication by helping the student succeed. I strongly agree with this article. I agree because I don’t think school sports are killing the academics but the student itself. I agree on how the sponsored sport programs should be cut off or disconnected for a little while if the students or not taking it serious enough. But I also disagree with that part because without sports some people wouldn’t be who they are today or not as success because of the love they
Clearly, many student athletes are very dedicated to their sport and their teams. Some are working in hopes of furthering their athletic careers, while others know this is an opportunity to participate in sports to make enduring friendships and learn valuable life sills. student athletes model integrity, respect and responsibility on and off the field. Regardless of which path a student athlete pursues, it is likely that eventually they will end up in a non-athletic career. The likelihood of making it to the professional level of athletics from college is very low, typically 1 or 2% depending on the sport.