Should College Athletes Be Allowed To Participate In Sport?

Prior to Title IX, women’s sports were largely ignored and underfunded, with limited opportunities for participation and scholarships. The law mandated equal opportunities for women in sports, leading to the growth of women’s athletics and also a significant increase in female participation in sports. In college, the implementation of Title IX was monitored by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which ensured that schools followed the law by examining the number of scholarships, participation, opportunities, and resources allocated to women (Boschert 90). This led to an increase in the number of women’s teams, athletic scholarships, and facilities that provide equal opportunities for both

In the article titled Face-off on the playing field By, Judith B. Stamper explains girls have their own story of support or discrimination, success also the debate of girls be allowed to compete on boys’ sports team. First, the writer Title IX explains female athletes are been treated second-class for long enough and should pass of inequalities and biases of girls. The writer also clarifies that girls doing sports make them healthier, physically, and emotionally. Other girls that don’t play sports are less likely to use of drugs. In addition, she notes a former Stanford University basketball player Mariah says, strength and independence of things girls learn from sports, the opportunities that are changing women.

There are more opportunities to compete at higher levels through competitions like the Olympics, World Championships and professional leagues. Even more importantly, we know that playing sports can help women become healthier. These health benefits for women and society alone should be reason to keep Title IX strong. Because of the women before me working hard for their rights to play and other opportunities, I know am able to play and participate in activities that I may not have because of their hard work. Because of this I am very grateful for my many opportunities.

Erin McGeoy, a former water polo athlete at George Washington University, explained, “A common occurrence was that we would run out of meal money halfway through the semester and that’s when I started to run into troubles of food insecurity.” She turned to boarding dogs in her no-dogs-allowed apartment in order to pay rent because housing costs increased each year but her housing allowance remained static.” This quote shows how food insecurity and living below the poverty line affects athletes. This also shows

This notion is supported by Dr. Daniel Gould, who believes that “Children who participate in sports have increased educational aspirations, closer ties to school and increased occupational aspirations in youth” (1). People against the funding of high school sports think that parents and society are placing more emphasis than ever before and, “[P]ressures athletic personnel to deviate on winning from the athlete- centered educational and personal development mission” (Gould 1). However, athletes strive to do better in class. Michael Lorenc, a high school basketball coach believes that “those who seem to have an overwhelming schedule where they’re playing maybe multiple sports, and high academic schedules, they tend to do better than those who don’t do anything extracurricularly” (Gray). Balancing sports and school makes athletes put more effort into keeping up grades while playing the sport they love.

In the articles “40 Years Later, Title IX Is Still Fighting Perception It Hurt Men’s Sports” by Goodale and “Title IX Under Fire As Colleges Cut Teams” by Marbella and Wells, the authors discuss Title IX and the effects it has on sports. Both Miller and Marbella and Wells mention Title IX as a law put in place to protect young women’s dreams of sports in college by forcing colleges to have their sports’ teams gender proportionality match their school’s gender proportionality. As the law came into effect, women’s teams in colleges were set up and flourished to meet women’s interests and the law’s requirements (Marbella and Wells). Over the years, colleges cut back on men’s sports instead of adding more women’s teams.

It has been seen that when women are given the opportunity to play sports they will take it, but Title IX hasn’t only given women the opportunity to play but also the opportunity to challenge stereotypes that men are superior to women in sports. According to National Center for Education Statistics there was a 1000% rise in women who play high school sports from 1971-72 to 2010-11. And boys participation in high school sports has gone up by 134%, this just goes to show that as soon as women were given the chance to play they took it. This growth is translating into college sports for women. Before 1972 scholarships for women were unheard of, but according to a new report by the National Coalition for Women & Girls in Education “In the past 40 years, high school girls' participation in athletics has grown tenfold, and college scholarships for female athletes have gone from virtually nil to 48 percent at Division I schools” (Khadaroo), this is great improvement for women.

Title IX is a landmark piece of legislation that is now 42 years old and still going strong in representing mainly women’s athletics and establishing a foundation to stand and improve upon. Before this piece of legislation, men’s sports dominated women’s sports in all aspects, both in money, participation, physicality etc. With this law being established women now have a stronger presence in the sporting world because of this law. Women’s sports still have a long way to come in gaining media attention especially in big tournaments like NCAA March madness. Title IX is now turning into controversial debates with the increase of women’s sports and programs for athletics but to make room for these sports, some men’s sports have to be cut.

Instead of having a ‘normal’ college social experience, student-athletes are often found in the weight room, on a travel bus, or at practice. College sports can be compared to a full time job (Valentine, 2022). Therefore, proving that athletes should receive compensation from Esgro 3 their respective school for the time and training they put in to making sure their school has a successful team. Additional benefits that the Universities see as a result of a successful sports program

Being involved in athletics is an important benefit that no one should be granted just because of their race, age, and gender. Title IX has been one of the most influential laws to respect to women, and specifically female athletes. Women demanded they needed a chance to become involved

Do you think girls should be allowed to play on boys sports teams? For me personally i think they should be allowed because some females are stronger faster and better than some males at particular sports so i don 't think it 's right for people to exclude them from male sports teams. But on the other hand if they get hurt it 's kinda on them because it was there personal choice to play they cant say its because we are male and they are female so we have to go easy. One of my reasons why girls should be allowed to play on boys teams is because some girls are just amazing at sports like jaime nared who was a 6 foot 12 year old playing on the boys varsity team at the age of 12 and starting and killing them averaging over 20 points a game she s

One of the biggest issues with NCAA sports is should college athletes be able to unionize and play. According to their website, The NCAA is an organization that represents over 1,100 colleges and universities from the Division 1, Division 2, and Division 3 Level (ncaa.org). In addition, The NCAA doled out more than $2.7 billion in athletic scholarships along with other resources, student-athletes can utilize (ncaa.org). Although the NCAA generates mass revenue, only the top programs are usually profitable while most schools operate at the institution cost (Mitchell & Edelman, 2013). I believe college athletes should not be unionized or paid to play college sports.

Should proficient girls be allowed to play on a boy’s team? The nineteenth amendment to the U.S constitution gave women the right to vote just like men, but is it fair to deny the right for girls to play on the same sports team as boys after the women’s rights movement? I truly believe that skilled girls should be allowed to play on the same sports teams as boys. Boys and girls are both human. So what makes them so different that they cannot play together?

If society stops to understand the struggles these women have been facing for decades will have a clearer picture of what steps to take in order to make a change in the sports industry. Men need to put their masculinity aside and advocate giving women a voice. The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues women in the sport world have faced through history, wage gaps, current issues today, and to discuss findings and recommendations for future research. Title IX is a law that came into effect in 1972, this comprehensive federal law prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.

As more girls/women have got more involved in sport in recent years, female athletes are still considered to still be inferior to male athlete (Trolan, 2013), the reason for this because from the early stages of a boy’s life they’re taught to play sport and watch it as well, whereas girls are taught that’s sports is for boys (Trolan, 2013), also as Men are given this dominate context in sport, which may discourage the participation of girls and Women to take part in sport (Coakley & Pike, 2009). Furthermore, Messner (2007) also explained that girls in school are channelled away from playing sport. From my understanding in relation to safeguarding standard 5, Women are not given the same chances as