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How many times have we all heard the phrase, “That player has potential!”? The word “potential”, in the world of athletics, basically means that the player can be really good or he or she can be the greatest student athlete ever.
There are a huge number of highly skilled high school athletes who all have the potential to be great. Many of these talented high school athletes are trying every day to figure out how to get better athletically. All student athletes work very hard to get better and are constantly looking for ways to improve. ‘Potential” basically means all of that.
Because of high expectations for high school athletes, many will fall short of achieving any level of athletic success. The reason: competition. There’s always going to be a player out there who is working just a little bit harder than you are. There’s always some high school athlete who wants that success more than the average player.
Only the high school athletes who are the absolute best will have the skill set to reach the college level. That’s exactly what college programs are looking for; only the best high school student athletes.
“Potential” is a funny word because you can look at a high school athlete who may have all the skills, the size, and many other incredible intangibles and college programs will take a chance on a player who they can develop just because they have this “potential”.
Then, there are high school student athletes who possess a certain level of skill and a certain level of talent but it may not translate to the college level or it will translate to the division three level where many high school athletes basically are not interested in that level of competition at all.
Sometimes I think the word “potential” can even be a damaging word to high school student athletes because of the pressure placed on them. When you see a high school athletes who are really doing well, automatically everyone will say he/she has the potential to be great. When a student athlete falls short and does not reach their full potential, then that high school athlete becomes an embarrassment.
High school student athletes: if you do not want to fall short athletically based on the word “potential” that has been placed on all athletes, I suggest you work as hard as you possibly can on your game. The pressures of failure should be your desire to work ten times harder, to never see failure.
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