Persuasive Essay On Track And Field

I do Track and Field here at Avila University, and I never imagined that I would be playing a sport in college. After a little bit of thought, I was wondering how could I pass up an opportunity to have all of the nice things that come with it. When making my decision I took into consideration the fact that many college sports get their own locker room, fancy gear, good meals, practice facilities/practice equipment, and good coaches. Most of these things are essential parts of becoming a better athlete, which would be my main reason for playing a college sport. The school I attend, is very expensive and because of that I expected nothing but quality things at this school. From past experience and research I see that poorer schools don’t have

I’ve been on the team for two years, and we do not have a track to run on, a field to throw in, or mats to jump on. We have two gyms at the school, and there is constantly 3+ sports practicing in the same area which is not that big. Last year we would always run into the problem of not being able to use the weight room because another sport is in their already. Every sport lifts with the Strength and Conditioning Coach, except Track and I feel like because our coach doesn’t use him or his program we are often closed out. The Athletic Director is suppose to be in charge of making a schedule so that this doesn’t happen, but it happened all the time. There is an empty grass field by the gym that is not used for anything, and we asked the Athletic Director if we could simply use the grass to throw on and we were told no, and I feel that is because she does not take the new program seriously. We have to pay other schools to practice at their facilities and this calls for us having extremely early practices in order to get out of the schools way. Every sport here at this school has a locker room and a place to change/store their clothes with their own locker with their name on it (which is kind of cool), except the track team and there are no future plans to get one

I’ve been here for two years, and I have already been through three coaches. Right now we have a new head coach and he is really the only coach besides his assistant (who was a student athlete on the team last year). So along with that we only have one coach trying to coach 30+ events by himself because the school doesn’t want to pay or put in the effort to find more coaches. An article I read called The Impact of Coaches' Behavior on African American Female Athletes' Playing Satisfaction: A Cursory Review of the Literature, talks about how big of an impact that coaches have on an athlete’s performance. The whole article relates to why it is important to have good qualified coaches. While on the other hand the football team at our school has 6+ coaches, and a few of them are previous NFL players so they are quality coaches. Many of the sports at this school are not winning sports and they get charter busses when they travel, go to buffets, get meals before their games and after their two hour games. While the track team gets vans to travel in, that our coach has to drive, a 6-inch subway sandwich after being up at 5 am, being a meet all day and not getting back until 11 pm. This year we just had a boy qualify for nationals and they are not flying him and coach down there, like they normally would. Instead they are making the coach drive him and the boy 12 hours. This is not the same thing, but I feel