Should Students Play Sports In High School

Students should play sports in high school because it helps them maintain their grades in school. Playing sports also helps to be disciplined at school, and during practice so they can a better person when they get out of high school. They also have more sportsmanship for other people, and to have Students that play sports are more motivated to keep their grades to passing levels to keep playing the sport they are in because student athletes in high school have to maintain a certain Grade Point Average (G.P.A.) to play in the next game. They cannot be absent from class any day or they would not be able to play in the next game. People who play sports also can get scholarships in what they do, and continue their education beyond high

Students who participate in sports have to maintain a certain schedule because they have to show up to class on time every day. Even during the weekends, athletes wake up and compete and still manage to do homework, so they can achieve good grades, and such as taking with their teacher about test to prepare for ahead of time.

Student athletes should also learn life skills such as being respectful in class, but also outside of school to the community. Some people look down on the whole team for one person’s actions. One encounter I had had with this is when I was playing football my senior year. We were traveling to Boone, North Carolina to Starmount High School. Two freshmen on the team brought alcohol on the bus on the way to Boone, and the whole team was in trouble for the actions of two people, and made the whole team run the next day for what they did. Another reason that students should play sports is that they get to know more people from different school, and can make more friends from different school , they can also have more sportsmanship. So they can have more respect for other student athletes in other school ,and visit new places,and go to different places, or to different