There is more presser on high school athletes more now than ever before many who don’t play sports or never have played sports in there life time may not understand what some high school athletes must deal with everyday.
High school student athletes; that title right there gives extra presser than just a regular student who just goes to class everyday and maybe an after school job then home for the day.
The high school student athlete has more exposure on then all the time there is someone always looking at then witching there every move only because they are an athlete only because they are on the team. Much of this is not going to make scents to many of you reading this but the daily expectation on high school student athletes are enormous eyes following there every mover is crazy and being ask question on a daily bases.
As an athlete you become something when you make the team then there’s practice then there’s games and if your any good you must always be good you must always win you must always be the best, no big deal right, I mean that’s what these kids do is play sports the game is suppose to be fun right?
The sports they play is only a kids game but there is an expectation place on that kids game they must perform; people are witching them and that’s where the presser comes in always being judge; always being talking about or criticize for how good they are or how bad they are.
Now that these athletes are in the spot light everyday just because they are on the team and fans of there sports expect then to do something, many fans expect some of then to be great to always win to always lead there team to be that great student or leader in the community, now that’s presser place on a kid remember these are just kids who are still growing up and may not be physically or mentally mature.
It use to be back in the day, high school ball players would play there season and when it was over it’s over and players would have a break from that season to do other things, like maybe be a kid again if only for a few months. You explore the outside world again and see how the other student live there daily lives; maybe get an after school job or just relax from sports for a wild.
Now that the season is over the presser will ease for a wild there’s no practice after school or a game to prepare for it’s just you and the outside universe you can be free no coach always on your back about something, your free just to hang out with other kids who may not play sports just to see what there lives are like without playing a high school sports. The presser is gone, the eyes have stop looking at you everyday and expecting you to do something special just because you are an athlete.
Now days high student athletes are still playing games long after the regular season is over; If it’s basketball there’s the AAU travel season to if it’s volleyball then there’s your club season; football there’s camps and combines to attend if it’s baseball, it ‘s showcases and I could go on and on but by now you get the point there is no off season anymore with the major impact place on getting recruited for a major college program.
High school athletes no matter what sports they play must compete year around just to keep up with another athlete in another part of the county looking for that same scholarship that means more workouts or meetings more traveling to and from practice all the time. These day’s parents are hiring personal trainers, these kids are getting specialize coaching there spending money on instructional DVD’s there is an extra expense for being a high school athlete. The investment many parents make into there athletic son or daughter does build some kids on inter presser on these high school student athletes.
The high school student is not under such scrutiny most of then can go un-notest no one is going to care what they got on a history exam or weather they were late for school or not.
But if the high school student athlete get’s a low score on that same history test or is late for school everyone will no about it, and there could be some consequences because of it, not fair but that’s what it means to be an athlete in high school someone is always witching waiting for you to make a miss step; now that’s presser right?
Many outsiders who may not understand high school sports will say what’s the big deal there kids and that’s how it’s suppose to be. Playing a sport in high school will come with a lot of extra attention, some outsider would say, “If they don’t want that kind of attention they should not play”. Statements like that are often said by many who never pick up and ball or where good enough to play of a team in high school.
There’s always haters out there no mater what a high school athletes does you read about it on sports message boards and website and blogs of criticism on high school kids. The talk can be how this player is not as good as that player or where he or she may go to college or weather or not they are a major college recruit or not! The talk can be harsh and could often times be down right evil towards these players that we care so much about.
Many fans who enjoy high school sports will leave comments on sports forums may not understand that these are kids there talking about and not some high price pro athlete. A large number of high school athletes are really not that fair remove from middle school we are talking about kids some of them are just 16 and 17 year olds and at that age many of these athletes are still growing up mentally and placing that kid of presser can rune them.
We have all herd of high school athletes being burnout and just want to quit playing. Most of us will look at a high school athletes as something more than a kid. We may being looking at that star ball player as future pro or at lest a big time college athlete and when that kind of expectation is place on these over work athletes something has to give.
The presser from the parents what do we now know about parents and athletes? Parents understand what it means to be a good high school student athlete many parents see that the better you are as a ball players could lead to that kid of theirs getting a scholarship to a big college program and possibly to keep playing there sport for at lest 4 for years.
Parents some may see dollar sings in the players “he may be the next Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan or great pro athlete.
A number of parents just want there kid’s to just have fun playing that sport without all the presser that often times comes with playing in high school.
We all have herd stories of over baring parents, pushing parents, parent stepping outside there roles and trying to coaching the team or instruct the coach on how to coach the team or lead the team.
Parent as we all know are the power behind that the high school athlete reaching there athletic highest to greatness.
Parents have made huge investment in there kids athletic development from putting money into all sorts of things such as summer camps equipment travel club teams off season workout program, they just want a return on all that money they have invested over a 4 year high school career. Parents want scholarship parents want the T.V schools biggest and the best and if they don’t get it then heads will roll just look at the numbers of high school coaches who quit every year mainly because of outside presser from parents.
Can you blame the parents for there what can seem to be crazy behavior all they want is a return on that money.
The high school coach may or may not understand how to deal with parents or even care they just want to coach without the outside distractions from fans or parents and school administrator But there is something about leading kids or coaching kids in high school that gets people liking what your doing or hating your guts!
Do high school coaches add to the presser that many high school student athletes must deal with? Are high school coaches really trying to develop the talent that they have or do they just roll out the balls and just let them play?
How much of an impact does a high school coach have on the kids?, there are countless stories of the good coach, the bad coach and the ugly coach.
Some high school coaches are in it for the kids and want the players that they coach to do well and to reach great athletic achievements they try to help these athletes reach higher goals everyday by motivating the players to not only win games but to have a goals to work towards and sometimes there are life lessens that are taught by these coaches other that there sports. Some high school athletes may come of homes where there is no father and that coach is looked at as a father finger a leader of young-men and ladies. High school coaches want to be a coach because they feel that they can be the diffidents maker in that young person life and they are in coaching for that very reason.
The bad in coaching can lead to added presser on high school players some coaches do cheat or recruit players from other teams just to win a few more ball games.
Some coaches do very little in the development of high school players some high school coaches do nothing to help there own players get recruited for college some high school coaches don’t know what they are doing and many more high school coaches may have just fell into the job as coach because nobody else wanted the job.
The huge amount of presser on high school student athletes is real there’s no running around that issue we all know that all eye’s are on them we know that fans of the game and hater too read about high school sports post comments in forums about high school sports this is real.
Some will say that life will be hard as these kids mature and that we are only getting them ready for what the real world will be like some day and that in this completive society we live in we are always competing for something better schools, better coaches, better teams better everything that is what life is all about and some high school student athletes this kind of presser is no big deal they think nothing of it; where others all of this may be too much to handle keep in mine they are just kids.
There is life after high school sports for some it maybe college athletics others it just may they want to be college student somewhere and leave the presser of playing sports behind them for ever! There are academics issues and presser to deal with all the time outside of just playing there sport. Athletes must study and past the SAT or ACT test, they must scours well they must get that test in order to be recruited in the first place.
There recruiting issues to finger out most parents, student athletes and some high school coaches are learning how the process works for the first time. Now that’s real presser! The high school student athletes is different as long is we all care about high school sports there will always be presser of kind on the kids on matter what.
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