...Amy is a nineteen year old college student on a track scholarship. She currently is working hard towards making the U.S. Olympic team. Amy is a vegan and weighs only one-hundred and fifteen pounds. Her coach is worried that she is not consuming enough protein in order to maintain her muscle mass. As an athlete, it is important to be consuming enough protein. If dietary protein needs are not met, strength of the body will decline and the athlete may experience lower energy levels. The first thing that needs to be discussed is how much protein Amy should be consuming on a daily basis. Depending on the activity level of the woman is part of determining the protein amount. A women who is sedentary would determine protein intake by taking her weight in pounds X .4. An active woman would determine protein intake by taking her weight in pounds X .6, a competitive athlete would take weight in pounds X .75, and a light body-builder would take her weight in pounds X .85, (“How Much Protein Do Women Need?”). A women who is of the same weight and age as Amy but is sedentary would consume less amount of protein throughout her daily diet. Amy, however, would fall under a competitive athlete category. After a quick calculation, Amy should be consuming 86.25 grams of protein per day. As an endurance athlete and a vegan, Amy...
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...Should College Athletes Get Paid? Eleven billion dollars! The non-profit organization known as the NCAA makes around eleven billion dollars each year from the hard work of college athletes in the U.S., and not a single dime goes to those athletes. It’s a horrible but true fact that struck me when I found out. The NCAA is a non-profit organization that was founded by President Roosevelt in 1905 with the idea of not compensating student-athletes who took part in its events. However, as time passed, the organization has become larger and started to take advantage of social media as well as other forms of sending information, which made it become very popular. Despite their growth with all the changes going on in the company, they still refuse to pay their...
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...Stress: In Collegiate Student Athletes Most students who graduate high school go on to continue their education at a College or University. Students who are talented enough also play at sport at their college. With the overwhelming workload that student athletes face in college, along with their commitment to sports can cause an immense amount of stress in their life. Stress is an emotional or mental strain put on the body and mind from demanding circumstances. As opposed to the traditional college student, student athletes have more pressure on them. About 400,000 student athletes participate in athletic games each year, and thousands receive scholarships to do so (Stern). Setting aside the stress that every student already faces when transitioning from high school to college, being a collegiate athlete on top of that just makes it more difficult. Stress is so powerful, it can become the sole thing that can cause an athlete to quit their sport, causing them to lose their scholarship or even drop out of school. Several occasions an athlete’s performance is negatively affected by the stress that is put on them. Being relied on heavily by their school, parents’ expectations to succeed in school, and by coaches and teammates to perform well in their sport, can be too much on a student athlete. All the stress that the students face also has proven to be very unhealthy. Most people also do not realize that student athletes in college have a greater risk of depression...
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...others buy tickets and attend the games. For decades, the NCAA and its member schools have been making millions of dollars off the work of college athletes, and until recently, the amateur economy of campus sports has gone relatively unchallenged. Even now, the NCAA's rules against allowing players to be paid are supported by a majority of Americans, and many justify this clear injustice by arguing that college athletes are already getting the most valuable compensation possible: a "free" education. 10.8 million dollars for a media right deal might seem like a lot of money, but when you look at the amount of sponsors that are willing to put money into these intercollegiate sports tournaments, it might be understandable. Everything about the NCAA March Madness tournaments is branded. Ads from big companies like Coca Cola, AT&T and HP are constantly played during the broadcasts of the games. And it’s not just the NCAA making a lot of money of off the work of these athletes; also the schools are making exorbitant amounts of money. For one of our case studies we looked at some stats from the Northwestern University. The National Labor Relations Board found that Northwestern’s football team $235 million in revenue between 2003 and 2012. (Pepperman & McDonough, 2014) Another interesting statistic is that in 1996 a premier college athlete earned $500,000 dollars of revenue during his career. (Lemons, 2014) When we take into account the inflation that number today would be closer...
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...Sexual assault is something students often hear on college campuses. It is a quiet whisper among college age students. Girls talk about how they are not going to report it to the school because they do not want to have to deal with the process and what people will say about them. With eighty five schools currently under review by the federal government for how they have handled sexual assault cases in the past, it is something that has come more into light in the past year due to the federal government coming up with the list of schools. Sexual assault is something that is so often a topic that our nation is ashamed about and why is that the case? Guilford College is one of the eighty five schools that is under review by the federal government....
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...DIETARY HABITS AND NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF COLLEGE ATHLETES IN TECHNICAL UNIVERSIRY OF KENYA NAIROBI 3 INTRODUCTION: 3 1.2: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM. 4 1.3: PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 5 1.4: OBJECTIVES 5 1.5: HYPOTHESIS 6 1.6: SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 6 7: JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY 6 CHAPTER TWO 7 LITERATURE REVIEW 7 2.0: INTRODUCTION 7 2.1: BASIC NUTRITION 7 2.1.1: Importance of nutrition 7 2.1.2:Pre-game meal 8 2.1.3:Post-game meal 9 2.2: ATHLETE KNOWLEDGE OF NUTRITION AND BEHAVIOUR 9 2.3: RElATIONSHIP BETWEEN NUTRITION AND SPORTS PERFOMANCE 10 2.4: CONCLUSION 11 CHAPTER THREE 12 METHODOLOGY 12 3.0: STUDY OCATION 12 3.1: RESEARCH DESIGN 12 3.2: STUDY POPULATION 12 3.3: SAMPLING PROCEDURE 13 3.4: DATA COLLECTION 13 3.5: DATA ANALYSIS 13 TIME SCHEDULE: 14 BUDGET 15 REFERENCES 16 QUESTIONNAIRE 17 DIETARY HABITS AND NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF COLLEGE ATHLETES IN TECHNICAL UNIVERSIRY OF KENYA NAIROBI INTRODUCTION: Too often, student athletes are left with very little time to meet their nutritional needs. The athlete tends to grab the easiest on the go food for their meal; little do they know that this lack of nutritious food can affect their performance. Student athletes need regular well balanced meals and snacks to maintain the high energy demands of training, competition and the rigor of an academic program (Ziegler et al 2005) showed how the increased competitiveness of the sport raises concerns about the health of these athletes .For example nutrient intake was found to possibly...
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...Background An institution’s role is to provide students with educational experiences relevant to its institutional missions (McGehee, 2010). College sports provide an important educational opportunity to the student-athlete. Scholars suggested intercollegiate athletics provided three distinct attributes to higher education; 1) personal development, 2) a vehicle for increased intellectual attainment and social upward mobility, and 3) help increase student enrollment and revenue (Miller, 2003; Zimmerman and Wickersham, 2013). The decisions made in NCAA Division II athletic reform with regard to helping student athletes earn their degrees remain an integral component of the mission of intercollegiate athletics (NCAA, n.d.). The Division II philosophy...
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...Academic Performances of Pacians Student Athletes and Non-Athletes as Influenced by their Study Habits CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION “Learning by Doing” John Dewey “How do study habits affect academic performance?” It is a positive statement when one says that man of modern society is so advanced in education, but won’t mind nor think about what steps he could make or trace what good he could do for his fellowmen. Students are the most essential assets for any educational institute. The social and economic development of the country is directly linked with student academic performance. The student’s performances place an important role in producing the best quality graduates who will become great leader and manpower for the country, thus, responsible for the country’s economic and social development. So, the parent and guardians must do their responsibilities and roles to give what they need in education. Study Habit is the act of devoting time and attention to gaining knowledge usually done regularly. Student grades are one of the primary indicators of such learning. And the extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined by the grades a student earns for a period of learning has been done. If a student earns better or high grades it is concluded that they may also have learned a lot while poor or low grades indicate lesser learning. However, many experiences and studies found out that there are also several factors that affects the grades of students;...
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...10 March 2014 Amateurs or Professionals? Big-money college sports takes your breath away. College football and men’s basketball have become such huge commercial enterprises that together they generate more than $6 billion in annual revenue, more than the National Basketball Association. A top college coach can make as much or more than a professional coach. Powerful conferences like the S.E.C. and the Pac 12 have signed lucrative TV deals, while the Big 10 and the University of Texas have created their own sports networks. Last year, Turner Broadcasting and CBS signed a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal for the television rights to the NCAA’s men’s basketball national championship tournament (a.k.a “March Madness”). And what does the labor force that makes it possible for coaches to earn millions, and causes marketers to spend billions, get? Nothing. The workers are supposed to be content with a scholarship that does not even cover the full cost of attending college. Any student athlete who accepts an unapproved, free hamburger from a coach, or even a fan, is in violation of NCAA rules. Nevertheless, the NCAA prohibits any form of payments, beyond scholarships, to any athlete who is responsible for producing the revenue. The NCAA also restricts the ability for any college athlete to earn income from an outside source. In a study sponsored by the NCAA, they discovered that college players have less money than non-athletic students, and almost fifty-eight percent are not even provided...
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...What is your opinion on why college athletes being paid, because I have my own. I feel if we did pay them they would kill the joy and the excitement of playing college sports. I think it would absolutly destroy college sports. Paying the college athlete’s would take the fun out of bowl games (football) and March Madness (basketball). They should not get paid because they get a free education, they are not professionals, and they would not take their education as serious. My first opinion is that they should not get paid because they get a free education. I think this is the main reason on why they should not be paid. The College athletes are provided with the opportunity to earn a degree, engage in college life, and play their favorite sport...
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...The Effects of Academic Clustering and Anxiety on College Athletes Performance Corey Darnell Rolling Northern Illinois University The Effects of Academic Clustering and Anxiety on College Athletes Performance Significance of Problem In the past 30 years, college athletics has grown into a big business. With sponsorships from top tier athletic brands and broadcasting deals with major television station such as American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television station. The ability to recruit the best of the best athletes has resulted in millions of dollars of revenue for the university. Universities like Arkansas, Ole Miss and LSU, are identified by their athletic programs solely. Although these universities may have top...
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...Student-athletes should be paid College athletics in today society is big business. The revenue and excitement that it generates are at all-time highs. Revenues for college football and basketball have topped $6 billion annual revenue. But there is an ongoing debate in the world college athletics. Is it time to start paying the student-athletes? The answer has always been a resounding no. Some make the argument that the student-athletes get the best of both worlds of college. Free educations to play a game and special treatment on campus are some of the many reasons that experts are against paying student-athletes. I do not feel the same way. There is much more that goes in to practicing, playing and particapatating in sports at the collegiate level. Student-athletes should be compensated with some form of monetary payment for their efforts and all they sacfice on a day to day basis. In the United States today, most businesses and companies are try to run more efficiently as well as keeping up profitably. Companies have to produce a product that the consumer not only wants but needs. Keeping that particular product in demand, as well as increasing income, bottom line is the ultimate goal. As the company does well, the workers are compensated for all their effort and hard work. Companies over the years have devised many different options in rewarding employees: profit sharing, bonuses, and incentives based performance in addition to regular benefits. CEOs of companies are...
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...Why should athletes not be paid? I’m going to tell you why the college athletes should not be paid. You should care about this topic because it is a problem that colleges face and if you want to play sports in college you might want to be paid for them but you get to choose to play sports or not. What some don’t know is that you shouldn’t have to get paid to play a sport that you chose to do. Today, I am going to try and persuade you why college athletes should not be paid. In college playing a sport is a privilege because most people that play sports in high school don’t play in college. What reason do athletes need more money, each year there are billions given to college athletes, the athletic scholarship averages over the schools tuition. Here is an example Ohio State of a little over $10,000 a year and the scholarship is $17,856 (Anderson). If they wanted to get paid let’s say a $100,000 salary that isn’t bad but a salary is affected by federal and state taxes. A student with a salary would have to pay a total of $34,900. That means the student only has $65,100. And college expenses get to $65,000 then then what was $100,000 is only $100, so is getting paid and having a salary better...
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...in Athletes Concussions in Athletes Introduction Athletes are faced with a number of health issues including injuries that could require surgery. It is also important to note that there are a number of athletes who have died while participating in sports. Sadly, most athletes do not report these problems in time albeit they are aware of the symptoms that accompany such sport-related health problems. Concussion is one such health problem that is affecting athletes, especially high school students. It has been reported that most of athletes tend to avoid reporting symptoms of concussion in order to avoid being sidelined from playing (Diagnosing and Treating Sports-Related Concussion, 2014). In the United States, it is estimated that up to 3.8 million athletes suffer from concussions linked to high impact sports (Diagnosing and Treating Sports-Related Concussion, 2014). There is, however, a feeling that the figure is under-estimated in the sense that most athletes as well as their coaches are not conversant with the symptoms of this particular health issue. Therefore, concussions in athletes are a serious health issue which should be addressed immediately. There is need to inform athletes and all stakeholders in the sport industry on the symptoms of concussions as well as their capability to be fatal in order to help athletes seek treatment to avoid repetitive concussions which would lead to deaths. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader, especially athletes, on...
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...Dustin Davis Mrs. Herr English 102 12 April 2016 College Athletes Should Be Paid Many people in the United States say that college athletes should not get paid because they already receive a scholarship. Did you know that college athletes miss quality class time to play in tournaments and televised games? What happens when that scholarship is revoked, or for the athlete that only receives a partial scholarship or not one at all? The majority of college athletes put more time into playing their sport than an employee does working a full time job. Student athletes are also core members of the University’s marketing team. How are college athletes supposed to pay for tuition and everyday expenses if they are not paid for what they do for the school? Also, a sports injury could prevent a college athlete from ever playing again. College athletics have gained immense popularity over the past few years. The NCAA is a billion-dollar industry and has been for a long time. Due to the increased ratings of college athletics, the NCAA will continue to rise. Therefore, college athletes should be paid. To begin, college athletes miss classes to play in tournaments and televised games, reducing the quality of their education. According to Marc Edelman, Forbes contributor, “The men’s college basketball teams would miss up to a fourth of their classes due to the tournaments they participate in” (“NCAA”). College athletes should receive some type of pay for this because they are risking the...
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