High school offers many opportunities for students to participate in a variety of extracurricular activities. These activities include athletics to the fine arts. A majority of students prefer sports such as football, basketball, and volleyball over theater and other fine arts. Some of the sports high school students have an opportunity to partake in have trouble gaining sufficient numbers of participants. Sports such as hockey, softball, and until recently, soccer, are not school sanctioned; therefore, some students are unable to participate due to a variety of factors. In other state, such as Minnesota, hockey has many top-notch high school programs as a result of being school sanctioned. Hockey in Pierre, South Dakota, should be made a school …show more content…
In a school sport, coaches are able to monitor grades. Grade monitoring encourages kids to focus on keeping their grades up if they hope to be eligible to play. Athletes who violate rules would be put through the same process as they would a school sport. As a club sport, hockey players have to miss games in any school sport they participate in as well as hockey. If hockey was sanctioned, they would not get a double jeopardy punishment in two sports. Therefore, making hockey sanctioned would structure the disciplinary policies while at the same time, insuring athletes maintain specific grade point averages.
Instead of remaining a club sport, hockey should be made a school sport. The school funding will increase the number of kids that can afford to play. The High School Activities association policies will give students a day off on Sundays for other activities. The disciplinary rules will prevent athletes from having to serve punishments in two sports as well as encouraging them to maintain a certain grade point average. The benefits of hockey being a school sanctioned sport meaning more players being able to participate and enjoy the sport of