Many players have been forced to retire early or in rare cases have been hurt permeantly. Concussions occur from to many hits to the head which is where many players and coaches are hoping the new targeting rule will lower the concussions in football. High schools spend a lot of time during their two-a-day practices teaching proper techniques. Coach Jerry Palmore said, “With our kids we hope they’ve been taught well enough and do the same things, that in
matt fischetti english 7/10/2012 The 2010 pine bush football team ended a season sadley with one win and eight losses. there where many contributing factors to why this occerd. One of these reasons why this was happing was what happend on the practice field and on game day. This essay will explain it from a point of view of a player. On the practice field there where only 3 seniors 7 juniors and 6 sophmores.
[4] The use of performance enhancing drugs has also been found in other levels of football, including play at college level, and even high school play. [5] The most recent figures from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football drug tests show that one percent of all NCAA football players failed drug tests taken at bowl games, and three percent have admitted to using steroids overall. [5] In the NCAA, players are subject to random testing with 48 hours notice, and are also randomly tested throughout the annual bowl games. [5] The NCAA will usually take approximately 20 percent of the players on a football team to test on a specific day. [5] Anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs are also used throughout high school football.
Rosie Anaya, a student in college wrote an essay last year about the physiological problems that affect our college students called, The Best Kept Secret on Campus. These problems can range from anxiety to depression to acute bipolar disorder. She talks about the staggering numbers of students with these problems and the lack of help from the universities. In this essay she states that a 2008 study found that “62% of students have experienced feelings of hopelessness, nearly 90% have felt overwhelmed or emotionally exhausted, nearly 50% have been so depressed they have trouble functioning, 15% have been formally diagnosed with depression and almost 10% contemplated suicide. These numbers are surprisingly high; however a vast majority of students are not receiving the help they need to deal with these major disabilities.
“You didn’t make the team this year,” are the gut wrenching words that have the power to bring a high school athlete to tears. After reading the team roster posted outside the coaches office and not seeing my name on it. As a freshman, I had always heard the stories of how former players had reacted to the news of being cut, some left school in tears, some tried to beg the coach to give them another chance, some hit a wall and broke their knuckles and most spent the next month in isolation not wanting to face former team mates. It only made the pain worse to see the look of sadness on the faces of your friends. Until it happens to you, it’s hard to imagine the dull and wrenching pain that rushes through your body.
Three main reasons for this decline were lack of facilities, uninterested administration, and scheduling. The middle school saw three different principals in six years, and four different assistants. Not a single administrative leader had a desire to see the arts grow. In fact, seven years ago, one administrator took the room designed as a band room, with storage space, practice rooms, office, exterior access for evening rehearsals, and sound-proofing, away from the band and gave it to a math teacher. The band classes were sent to a building away from the main school, in a suite of rooms not designed for music, much less band classes.
All of his dreams were shattered and he was trying to cope with just being an everyday person without known fame The Playoff game was based on racism. It was sad that after they had the coin toss that it had to be in a neutral place because they were scared of what the Carter Cowboys fans were gone do since the Permian Panthers were predominately white. The next year Coach Gaines led the undefeated Permian Panthers to the state playoff. He had won is confidence back from the
“Muscle Injuries Rattle on Oregon High School” The New York Times July 24, 2011 The article “Muscle injuries rattle an Oregon High School”, talked about two dozen Oregon high school football players that suffered from what doctors believe to be rhabdomyolysis. The football players all complained about sore swollen muscles on Monday.In which three out of the two dozen had to have surgery. The doctors believe it was due to an intense sudden increase in their workout. With my understanding with the reading of this article, the 24 players were required to do anoutrageous workout. They were to exercise indoors with-out air-conditioning with the temperature outside well over 90 degrees.
Nicole LaHaie Ms. Johnson EN111 – I-Search Paper 14 February 2013 Word Count: 855 ACL Tear in Female Athletes The Story of my Search Having torn my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) my senior year of high school, I had many questions on the subject. I remember my doctor telling me that females tear their ACL four to ten times more than boys. I thought to myself why? Before starting this paper, I had very little knowledge about the exact reason WHY females are more likely to tear their ACL’s. I knew that men and women’s body anatomy was different and that may have been a cause, but I was not sure about anything.
If you were to ask teachers in the 1980’s if they thought training school faculty members gun safety and allow them to carry weapons it would be viewed as unimaginable. With the increase of school violence since 1999 more parents and faculty members have been asking how we should go about keeping our children safe in school. In the United States in 2012, there were ten school shootings leaving forty-one dead and thirteen wounded (Tyrel). Many schools in urban neighborhoods have installed metal detectors and do backpack checks prior to allowing anyone into the schools doors. Should we train and allow school faculty members to carry weapons to help keep our children safe or should we find other methods of early detections to stop these events from happening.