Impact of Family Status on a Student Athlete Performance

Many people look up at student athletes and, and just see how good they are on the field or court. What most people fail to realize is that it’s hard being a student athlete, and most people don’t know what goes on without seeing them during a game or meet. Student athletes have to be students first before they are athletes. Everyone has a job, parents swipe or write a check and drive them to practices and game if too young to drive. Athletes are to be the best athletes that they can be in that sport. Studies have found to believe that student athletes with families with higher income have a better chance to make that child a better player.

In the document that I read fatherly stated that as a parent who was a star may be resentful and rejecting if the child’s does not affair a similar level of achievement, as he did in his past career. Now with that this adds an enormous amount of pressure to the child because the parent feels like either a winner/ loser when the child performs. In my interview I did with an old friend Miss. Canady, I asked her how does it make her feel to be in this type of situation of not having a say so about playing sports that you don’t want to play? “I tend to get mad, frustrated and angry, because I don’t get a say so or control over it and I just can’t wait to be grown so then I can make my own decisions.” Personally, believe that parents should make sure that their child is successful and happy not just successful in a game that this child doesn’t even enjoy playing. In the article fatherly “in Norway, athletes are taught that they have to love the game and play without the pressure of completion.”

Youth sports are no longer a go have fun and make new friends, it has become learning the benefits of hard work, exacting, team work and respecting authority. Yes, athletes are becoming more skilled at a younger age because the competition is getting tougher. But at what cost? Recent studies have shown that injuries are increasing due to putting so much pressure on their body. A red flag is that parents are playing through their kids, because of a past injures or a mistake that they made in their past. Another would be that parents be more excited about a win and more pissed about a lost than their child.

My interview with Canady I asked her the question do you feel that your father makes you play these sports because of his past and not making it to where he wanted to be in his career? “Yes I feel like this all the time because of his past mistakes and my brother I feel like I have a load on my back to be this perfect little angle and one slip up and he’s down my thought. Many parents feel that it’s my child you live under my ruff you will play what I tell you. What some parents fail to realize is that they are crush their kids dreams by forcing them to follow their old ones. Kids never get to expertise to just be a kid. When it comes to money in America, money talks, so with the millions of dollars pro athletes are making there is no wonder why more children’s parents are dreaming of their kids playing pro ball or any other sport.

After spending thousands of dollars on traveling hotels equipment according to the Time the Acronical Cost of kid’s sports. the average family spends 2,292 years. “in 2016 survey found that the maximum spending close to 20,000 and some families invest in travel team’s personal trainer. at the high end some families can spend between10-10% of their income. There are only 6/100,000 students that received a full ride scholarship to play sorts and this is being D1,2 or 3: and only a 1/10000 that that child would go pro.