High school sports

High school sports is prevalent in all of America. We participate in high school sport because we want to be active. We also compete in high school sport because we want to move on to the college level. This drive to be recognized by the next level has made high school sports more and more competitive. This leads to the high school sport turning into more of a business.

High school sports are meant for kids to stay out of trouble and be a part of something. It is also good to take a break from education and to stay healthy. What we see with the effort to be recognized by colleges is that high school sport is changing. If you are an average kid and you want to play basketball you probably are not going to be able to because there are kids who trained their whole lives for this sport in order to move on. This tells certain kids they are not good enough and pushes them to the side. The sport gets so intense that the main reason the kids are there for (education) doesn’t really matter anymore.

In America we see interscholastic sport as a preview of the future of sport. We all like to look at kids and say one day he/she is going to be great. It is sort of like a stock market. The more exposure you get as a high school athlete the better off you look to the colleges. Usually the colleges tend to stay around places where they have found talent before.

The problems we see here is that not everyone gets a fair chance to be looked at by coaches. One of the problems is that you need to go to camps for your sport, but they are expensive. If you don’t have the money to go then you will not get as much exposure. Another problem is that not all kids play in the same city, some cities might be harder than others and coaches look at the harder ones more than the weaker ones.

A solution could be that there would be an NCAA camp that goes around to each city and holds a free camp for kids to come show their skills. This would allow certain kids in certain areas to get some recognition to build off for their future.