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Essay on College Sports Recruitment for High School Students
Employing yourself means cautiously evaluating college sports programs and learning where your talents might best fit in. It as well means contacting coaches, visiting colleges, highlighting your talents and much more. The sooner you start assessing and planning the better handle you will have on the process.
By and large, undergraduates enjoy participating in athletics. But one whose principal interest is his academic work tends to be irked by the intensity of modern training, especially at football. When in such circumstances a choice must be made between academic work and intercollegiate athletics, the decision is doubly irksome and may lead to protests against the stringency of training. A majority of the intercollegiate football players questioned appear to enjoy playing football, but not to regard it as fun or recreation; their enjoyment seems to arise from more intangible rewards, the atmosphere surrounding competition, the notoriety that success brings, and the like. A great many football players volunteered the information that for actual fun, they prefer the less formal intramural games to intercollegiate. The indulgence of the "play instinct" is rarely possible in modern intercollegiate athletics, especially football.
The American undergraduate is less individualistic than the undergraduate of Oxford or Cambridge in deciding whether he shall take part in athletics. College opinion in the United States is apt to be stronger than the individual's personal inclinations. A skilled runner or football player or skater who decides to abandon intercollegiate competition and to devote more time to his studies is confronted by pleading fellow students and friends, coaches, alumni, and even, in some instances, officers of the university, who endeavor to rouse his conscience and sense of "duty" to Alma Mater. Few young men can resist this pressure, especially in view of the social stigma attached to the "quitter" and the fact that they are "getting by" in their academic work..................
