by Shana Medrano

Created on: May 07, 2009   Last Updated: October 30, 2009

Are high school competitive sports worth the time and expense?

Yes, Not only can sports keep you physically fit, and healthy. Sports also improve 5 components of fitness. Suppleness, strength, speed, stamina and skill. Competitive sports in high school allows students to improve their physical activity.

In my opinion high school students that play sports, maintain a social life, and achieve good grades are defiantly on the right track. They are not only getting prepared for the real world mentally but also physically.

High school athletes are always quickly judged, right away people start to think that they are being pushed to their body limits, or not focused enough on school, but what people fail to realize is the good that comes from playing sports.

Truth is that in your life your body limits will be pushed, and every individual will have to learn how to work extra hard, to maintain a family, a career and a healthy life. Having sports play a role in your high school life can only be for the better it teaches you how to play on a team and how to maintain your studies and eating habits.

As we all know high school students during the year have plenty of time on their hands, and i can speak from experience, high school students are usually done with school around three in the afternoon. High school curfews are usually between nine or ten at night, and we all know how well that applies?. Students have a couple of hours left in their day,.

What do most high school students do, with the rest of their day? Speaking as a high school graduate, i did many things but sports. I shopped, hung out with my boyfriend, or girl friends, watched my favorite shows, chatted on the computer and homework before bed. I got sick of doing the same thing everyday and having parents not worried about me playing in sports, i just continued the same life. I remember saying as a freshman " i can't wait till i get my working paper's" which was still 2 years away, soon after that i decided to babysit around town which made me great money to be a student. Soon after that i was buying my own clothes and started to become independent.

Sports weren't a part of my life at all, Although i watched and attended games i never participated. If the world would put more emphasis on competitive sports many students can learn at an early age how to maintain a life both physically and mentally.

Remember children learn so much from parents, the old saying comes to mind " like mother like daughter" or "like father like son".

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