Persuasive Essay About High School Sports

The team is in a huddle; the quarterback starts rallying the team along with leading them by telling them what plays to do and how to do it. After this game the quarterback goes to his job and leads his peers the same way he leads his team. Some people believe that the chances of something like a person getting a concussion or a life threatening injury are too high in comparison to the benefits, and the student athletes tend to work themselves to hard causing this like overuse injury that can be recurring. However, the benefits of these sports are much higher than the risk of having a serious injury, and while playing these sports children develop self confidence and have more team spirit. Without these contact sport, children start to lose the skills they learned like team spirit and the competitive aspect of they wanting to be better than the person in front of them, physically and mentally.

As stated in the article high school sports injuries ”Defenders of high school athletics programs maintain that sports help to keep students active and healthy. Sports can also promote self-confidence, socialization and team spirit, advocates stress” (“High School Sports Injuries”). Sports provide a reason for children to become physically fit by telling them that the better they are, or more fit they are, the more they get to play. Many researches have stated that “‘There are mental, physical, economic and spectator benefits derived from high school sports that give them value to which we rarely give a great deal of thought,’ he asserts. Lipsey admits that sports participation involves the risk of injury, but he writes that such risk needs to be evaluated ‘realistically’ and will probably ‘not...lead to a decision to shut down any of our sports programs.’” (“High School Sports Injuries”). While sports do indeed have the risk of injury, they provide a much larger benefit of being in shape and many other