Censorship Of Gender Roles In Youth Sports

In the article, “The Secret Life of Tiger Woods” by Wright Thompson, the author explains the life of champion golfer Tiger Woods after his father’s death. The article “Are parents ruining youth sports? Fewer kids play amid pressure,” by Michael S. Rosenwald illustrates how fewer kids are doing youth sports due to the constant pressure of feeling not good enough. Both of these articles explain how growing up with sports have affected the lives of many, however, I believe that the quest to become an “elite athlete” is not worth the many sacrifices it requires people to make. Many people give up so much in their life to become athletes, but ultimately it results in regrettable long-lasting problems which would never have happened if the sacrifices

Many children and adolescent are redirected to organized sport to support their psycho-social developments. At the beginning of adolescence period and in some sports in childhood, the discovered talents start to train excessively to specialize in sport and to compete at elite level at the end of their adolescence period and in young adulthood (Fraser-Thomas Cote & Deakin, 2008). Certainly in pursuit of this path, coaches have critical influence on athletes. According to a study that reported in a book of Coaching Association of Canada, 96 % of the young athletes stated that coaches have greater effect on their behaviors than parents, peers or teachers. In addition, Tomlinson and Yorgancı (1997) found that the coach’s decisional powers can exceed

I am Nick Drew, senior football player at Campbell University looking to one day become a Division 1 Football Head Coach. What I want in life is for my family and I to be happy and successful. I think those are two of the biggest, yet simplest things about life. If I’m happy and successful then I believe that everything else will fall into place. Along with my family being happy and successful I also want my players that I coach to be happy and successful.

Performance-enhancing drugs otherwise known as PEDs are drugs that are commonly used by athletes to enhance their level of play. Performance-enhancing drugs have been around a long time, and were initially introduced in 776 BC - 393 BC. The Ancient Greeks used PEDs during the original Olympic Games in order to have an advantage against their opponents. They were used on and off throughout the years, and became prominent again during the 1900’s where they were used in the modern day Olympics from 1904 - 1920. “Mixtures of strychnine, heroin, cocaine, and caffeine were used widely by athletes and each coach or team developed its own unique secret formulae” (Gold).

Youth sports in America reflect and support the nation’s gender roles and stereotypes in society by utilizing the preconceived notions concerning the attributes of, differences, between, and proper roles for men and women in U.S. culture. Because there is already the preconceived idea that boys are supposed to be more athletic, assertive, aggressive, strong, and competitive than girls, more attention is given to them regarding athletic training. Examples of this favor towards boys are shown through the youth sport t-ball, the precursor sport to baseball. Studies show that boys receive more playing time than girls and are assigned to more played positions that provide more opportunities to touch the ball and develop skills as well as more time hitting the ball at the plate. In addition to these, boys also receive more coaching advice, while girls’ mistakes go uncorrected and boys also receive more praise for their successes.

It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference - Bear Bryant. Many different sports are in this world, including soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, but two sports I enjoy watching are rugby and American football. Two sports that so many people love in this world. When you think of football you think of your favorite team. When you think of rugby you can’t think of anything because not many people in the USA watch it or play it.

The story of an average Indian sportswoman often struggles to materialize into heroic tales of achievement, rarely making its way into annals of history. Sport does not fit the cultural role play, traditionally associated with Indian women and as a result, women sporting role models are a rarity. Culturally, sport signifies agency, control over one’s body and strength; the traditional dynamics of masculinity, which help preserve the gender power relationship in favor of men in the society. Thus, to keep social institutions such as sport, within the parameters of the patriarchal world order, women are ‘subaltern-ised’.

Analysis Framework When trying to understand or appreciate modern culture and society it is important for one to acknowledge the place of sport(s). We reside in a world in which sports are recognized as an international phenomenon. Some of the worlds most visible international spectacles are closely associated with major sporting events. A part of the cultural and social fabric of different nations localities and regions.

INTRODUCTION According to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football is currently the world’s most popular sport, with an estimated 2.65 billion people practicing the sport worldwide in over 200 countries . Much of its popular success has been attributed to its importance as a sociocultural, political, and economic phenomenon, but also due to its nature as a communicational practice filled with symbolism. Football has become a true social, symbolical, and communicational space which brings to the masses not only a means of distraction and recreation, but also a point of integration in which the sentiments of communal belonging and identity are reaffirmed. Moreover, the sport is a socializing vehicle through which the social

Research by Hoigaard et al. (2010) in Norway with 110 elite level, women handball players on 10 seperate teams supported previous research that role satisfaction (i.e., satisfaction with the athlete’s formal task-related role on the team) would mediate the relationship between perceived role ambiguity (i.e., lack of clear information about one’s position and the expectations) and the athletes’ willingness to engage in social loafing (the phenomenon when an individual athlete displays less motivation followed by exerting less effort towards a task when engaged and operating collectively in a group or team sport than when working alone (Eccles & Turner, 2014)). The plethora of research also supports a negative association between social loafing

On the flip side of the female athlete triad is the rising obesity one can observe in football players. “Researchers at Iowa State University found nearly half of the offensive and defensive linemen playing on Iowa high school teams qualify as overweight, and one in 10 meet medical standards for severe obesity”(Watkins 46). It is even more likely for high schools in states with more competitive football programs to have more extreme obesity problems. It is absurd to have an athlete be severely obese. Sports are supposed to encourage healthier weights, but this is proof of the opposite.

Youth Sports effect on young lives Youth sports can be a crucial part of developing kids life, not to mention their parents lives with all the driving, planning, organising, and the occasional drama from one soccer mom to another about how little timmy’s mom brought unhealthy snacks after the game. Youth sports have changed in many ways since I was little, now kids ,while dragging their family with them, are traveling across country for a game in a 8U league. Experts are always saying kids need to be more active, but to what extent some kids are spending their all their time playing these sports. But some aspects of sports have positives to them and some aspects are negative.

In high school, students have many opportunities to participate in athletic events. One of the most popular sports offered in high school across the United States is football. The list of life lessons the sport can teach is prolonged. Most people think that the long days and nights spent participating in high school football “pay off” after realizing the abilities they gained. High school football has the ability to transform irresponsible and unfocused students into responsible and perseverant athletes.

Are Pro Athletes Good Role Models? Imagine if you were to considered as a role model for young people? Athletes having everything anybody would want, the fame, money, cars everything. But imagine if you were one would you go out of your way and be the different person you are off the field to help support children and families?