High School Athletics

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High School Athletics

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High School Athletics

Introduction

Extracurricular activities in high schools , aside from curricular activities , also play a vital role on the personality development and growth of high school students . There many ideas and concepts on personality development that cannot be taught inside the four corners of a classroom , rather , a high school student must interact to other people - fellow high school students , in to have a hands-on experience and better understanding of the real life applications of those

personality development theories that they learn in class rooms . This has been the main reason why most of the high schools nowadays encourage the participation of their students to various extracurricular activities . Among many extracurricular activities available to high school students , athletics would one of the most popular extracurricular activities in high school

Athletics has been identified to have profound effects on the development of self esteem , sense of maturity , and leadership skills of many high school students which are very useful on its personal development as an individual . Based on the Leadership Ability Evaluation conducted , wherein a sample of 60 suburban high school students where tested , the result revealed that athletes demonstrated significantly greater leadership ability skills that with the nonathletes Furthermore , the said evaluation also revealed that female athletes have greater leadership skills than with the male athletes

This aims to identify the impacts of athletics to high school students in terms of personality development and growth as well as to their academic performance . This will be done by establishing first of the relationship of athletics to the personality development and growth of high school students , and then relate the said result on how it affects the academic performance of high school students . At the end of this , expect a conclusion on whether athletics provides either a positive or negative impacts on the academic performance of high school students , vis-a-vis with the result on personality development and growth

Self Esteem

Body satisfaction , e .g . body cathexis and body image , reflects how an individual is satisfied regarding the specific aspects of his /her body which can be attained by the exercise activities of athletics . Athletic participation provides physical effects to high school athletes since they undergo rigorous trainings that lead them to greater body satisfaction which in turn results to higher self-esteem (Faqs .com 2008 . Body satisfaction and self esteem goes hand in hand , therefore since athletic activities provides body satisfaction , then , it also provide improvement on high school student 's self esteem (Frost McKelvie , 2005

Once undergone athletic activities , most of high school athletes develops their personal images /appearances which boosts their self-esteem and lowers down their insecurities . Weight training taekwondo , basketball and the like are just few of the many athletic activities that provide physical improvement to high school athletes and so with their self-esteem

Furthermore , experiencing to achieve something for his /her team and trust that coaches provides to their players are just one of...