Being a high school athlete comes
with a lot of responsibility sometimes. One of the biggest struggles for being
a student-athlete is that it is a way to keep teens out of trouble playing sports
can benefit athletes from staying out of trouble. Athletes are good at many things: running,
jumping, swimming, dribbling, passing, dunking, but the one area where they do
not particularly excel in at times staying out of trouble.
One of the biggest downfalls of student-athletes is that they get into
trouble and have the chance to lose it all, from one bad decision. In College
Athletics & the Law spoke
about how it starts with value-based coaches from keeping athletes out of
trouble. When it comes to high school athletes, moral development is a
crucial part that the coaches have to truly preach. Hampton stated,” Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas was
sentenced today for a felony gun conviction that stems from a locker room
confrontation with a teammate. It's just the latest in the seemingly endless
stream of athlete brushes with
the law. But it doesn't have to be that way”. He is absolutely correct. Athletes
need to learn how to conduct themselves at early ages so this won’t happen to
them if they make it pro. If coaches do not know how to teach moral development
to the student-athletes, it can be detrimental to the future challenges of
decision making for the student-athlete. Kids are going to have ups and downs
in behavior, but it is the coach’s job to minimize the downs if possible. With
teaching moral development, saving one is worth ten sometimes.
References
Hampton, S. (2010, March 26). 5 Simple Rules for Keeping Athletes Out of
Trouble. Atlantic: Web Edition Articles (USA).
Value-based coaching is key in keeping athletes out of legal trouble.
(2006). College Athletics & the Law, 3(1), 3.
So many times we see pro athletes or even college athletes get themselves into all sorts of trouble. I agree that they should learn when they are young to avoid losing it all.
ReplyDeleteIf we are going to nip this in the butt we a society has to change the image of the stereotypical high school athlete from the popular kid that goes out to parties, drugs, and drinking to a person who gets the grades, sober, and hard working. It starts with the coaches to because the coaches give some players a pass just so they can win a game. Thats basically teaching them that no matter their actions its just going to get slid uder the rug and forgotten given them the sense of that rules dont aply to them. This is wrong because what we are teaching our young student athletes is very unbecoming
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