Research+Proposal

The Influence of Youth Sports on Adulthood

I played football for a total of 10 years. I was a captain of my high school football team and a two year varsity starter. I now am a lifting coach for my high school and the assistant director of my communities youth football program. I credit many of my character traits and achievements in high school to the lessons I learned being on a sports team. I believe that trait such as teamwork, determination, and friendship are just some of the many important morals that I learned in my sports “career”. These teambuilding backgrounds also help people in the real world. Employers like to see extracurricular activities on resumes that built teambuilding. I believe that youth sports help build these foundations for kids and help them build moral values that they cannot get from video games. I believe that some of the most important organizations in a community are team building and life lesson based programs. In our youth program we try to be as involved in our players development as we can. We have awards for good grades during the season that we hold a special assembly for. We have good news boxes for each team that kids drop papers with good grades in, and we share them on the last day of practice for the week. We teach that they are family members and students before they are football players. We get coaches that set good examples for our kids and coaches that teach hard work and determination are more important than athletic ability. These are all things that I think are important that kids can learn from youth sports and act upon in the adult lives.