Student-Athlete Benefits-Michael Livingston

When it comes to sports;success relies on the team. According to Wade Harly from livestrong.com the team that comes up on the winning end is usually the team that works well together. The team is going to be the deciding factor of whether or not the team is going to rise to the top or crash and fall. According to Competitive Advantage:The Power of Teamwork most big athletes care more about the "me" than "team", which is not good as it doesn't teach young athletes the right motives. Instead of caring more about the success of "me" Competitive Advantage: The Power of Teamwork athletes should focus more on bettering the person next to them, which will come out better when it comes to playing the sport.

There is only 24 hours on any given day and throughout those 24 hours there are lots of options of how to spend it. A lot needs done within those 24 hours and it only gets harder with growing age. Athletics helps to balance out work and play. While practicing after school and games it takes time management to be able to do well in the classroom as well. Stated by James Evans the time management skills a person uses while younger in sports is going to carry on to how they manage their time in the work place.

Professional athletic teams are the top of the line of what a person can achieve. It all starts in high school and then getting recruited by a college coach. In the recruiting process the better the athletes generally go to higher level institutions that have consistently good teams. This is where the more skilled athletes attend and with that the school can pay a price. Big institutions recruit with scholarships and sometimes free tuition(full-ride) that attract the better athletes. This causes student-athletes who don't have enough money nor desire to attend a higher institution to have a more fighting chance at studying at one of these institutions accordion to The School Library Journal.

Being an athlete demands a lot of physicality from athletes. Modern day athletes tend to spend countless hours in the weight room where they are building their muscle growth, transforming their younger bodies into adults. With this physical transformation presents the athlete to be able to put their full athletic capabilities to the test according to James Beauchemin.

Being a student athlete all starts in the classroom. In order to succeed in athletics academic standards must be met in order to participate. In order to make this happen athletes need to be on top of their game when it comes to classroom learning. Athletes should try to sit in the front of the classroom in order to develop a relationship with the teacher in order to provide extra academic services as stated by Cindy Luis.

With an upcoming intergration world it is more important than ever to treat everyone with the same respect and dignity says Albert Y. Bimpert. In modern day everyone is treated equally no matter their intelligence or ethnicity. Bimpert says sports plays a key role in helping people with different ethnicities form bonds that can help change a persons perspectives into making harmony with everyone.

Sports requires constant mental toughness. Whether it holding back anger or just deciding between sports and other activities it is constantly dispensing challenges. According to Laura Healy sports produce 95% of current CEO's where all of them contest that the challenges they met when it came to playing sports has helped them get to the top.