IR Blog Post 4- careersandcollege.com

http://www.careersandcolleges.com/tp2/cnc/articles/view.do?cat=training-articles-and-advice&article=how-balance-academics-and-athletics


How To Balance Academics and Athletics


1)  Many athletes get out of school with only one thing in mind, getting ready for practice while knowing they have a big essay due the next day. Lots of these stars end up messing up or screwing around during practice because they have other things stuck on their mind. What ends up happening is that by the time the practice is over the kids are so tired they just want to go home and sleep but are forced to stay up to finish any work that is due the next night. Kids will stay up as late as they need to finish the work and end up only getting a few hours of sleep.

2) Studies have shown that performance decreases due to lack of sleep. Many student athletes get caught up in this lack of sleep because after being exhausted from a practice or game have to go home and finish a 4 page paper due the next day. They should do the work before but a lot have important things to focus on aside from school work that could help set up their future, knocking sleeping out of the list of important things. Those kids have shown lower grades, test scores, and showing up to class late. They are either sleeping during class or have their minds wandering, either way it is not healthy physically and mentally.

3) In some cases playing a sport has helped an athlete do better in school, while they are able to gain more energy to stay up later. This energy allows the student to be able to do their work and not stay up rediculous hours of the night. Also being an athlete helps kids have an incentive to want to do better in school knowing that what dictates them from playing is not only how they do on the field but also off. Many times there will be around 20-30 minutes until you have a practice or game and most of the time people don't know what to do. The best thing is to either do some work to knock time off later or even take a power nap which has helped shown better results in the past.


1) Can playing sports actually help you do better in school?

2) Should athletes be given a little help with teachers knowing they have a long practice or game?


http://studentactivism.net/2010/09/29/cutting-sports-to-balance-the-books/

This article is about how a school is dropping 4 athletic programs in order to help reduce the amount of time being spent on a field or in a gym rather then in a library. It will be able to get more money to help students have better programs and study areas to allow those late night assignments to be done with ease. Even though it is not fair to those students who's sport is being dropped, the record has shown they are the sports in the school with the lowest gpa's. By cutting programs or even players it allows them to focus on academics over athletics helping set their future up to look better.