Sports Zealot Essay

Introduction

What is the significance of sports to you? According to the Long-Term Athlete Development pathway of Baly, Way and Higgs (2013), as a sports zealot, it must be in the last stage “Active for Life”. It is the ideal stage that every sport developer likes to help people attain. In order to develop this progress, it should start doing with student. However, most of the decision are not made by them, it should be parents mainly. Unfortunately, the primary purpose among great majority parents is to help their children perform well in academic. Abisha and Vincent (2015) proposed that parents have a common faith that participating sports is being playful as wasting times for studies. However, the Sport for Development and Peace International

(1999): “Non-significant trend to gains in English, arithmetic and behaviour.”
- Dwyer et al. (1983): “Non-significant trend to gain in English and arithmetic at two-year follow up.”
- Coe et al. (2006): “No change in academic performance except in sub-group who exercised vigorously.”
- Daley and Ryan (2000): “No relationship except for the duration of physical activity time and marks for English.”
- Dollman et al. (2006): “No relation between sports and mathematics scores.”
- Yu et al. (2006): “Sports had no relation with academic

First, good students tended to exercise or play in sport on a regular or frequent basis. Second, students had no or rarely participation in sport and exercise perceived poorer academic performance. Third, students who participated very frequently in sport and exercise had lower academic performance self-rating. And she found that it was low correlation for the association between academic performance and frequency or intensity of participation. Lastly, she stated that there was no evidence in the data to support the notion that sport participation, no matter from very frequent or intense participation, had a detrimental effect on academic