The Importance Of Sports In High School Sports?

Sports give influential learning experiences from practices and games that tend to stay with people for a very long time. Studies now show that people who have participated in high school sports and were on the varsity team spend more time giving back to the community and to charities. Research also shows that they often get better jobs and earn more money. When an athlete is interviewed for a job, more is expected out of him or her. Hiring managers expect to see more leadership skills and self-confidence. Past studies show that these expectations of student athletes are accurate. If schools were to down-play sports, it would be much harder for families with low income to give their child the choice, or chance, to play organized sports. This would also affect how they are later rewarded in the workplace. Sports clearly show improvement to the students’ character, and the best way to keep this going is by keeping sports easily available in high schools for students. This article shows that student athletes get better jobs, tend to give back to the community

After data was taken from over 1100 students, the results stated that there is definitely an important connection between participating in sports and being healthy. These results show the importance of organized sports. If they stay easily accessible in schools than most students will get the same chance at being healthy. This doesn 't necessarily show how it would benefit academics, but being healthy is something that is very important. The author, Jeffrey Herbert, has earned his
PhD in Clinical Science from the University of Colorado. Also, most of the information was researched and poled from actual schools. I think this will be useful in my paper because of the solid researched data. This article will be most useful in my paragraph that is about how sports and physical exercise is good for