THE TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS AND ACADEMICS

Sports Crazy ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 117-134
Keyword(s):  
Interscholastic Sports

Interscholastic Sports: A Character-Building Privilege

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Lumpkin ◽  
Sarah Stokowski
Keyword(s):  
Interscholastic Sports ◽  
Character Building

Physical Maturity Screening for Participation in Sports

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 1076-1080
Author(s):  
Richard E. Kreipe ◽  
Harry L. Gewanter
Keyword(s):  
Grip Strength ◽  
Tanner Stage ◽  
Health Evaluation ◽  
Adolescent Boys ◽  
Screening Criteria ◽  
Interscholastic Sports ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Tanner Staging ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
Physician Assessment

In an effort to develop screening criteria to allow nonphysicians to detect physically immature boys prior to interscholastic sports competition, 364 male adolescents were studied as part of their group preparticipation health evaluation. Handgrip and self-assessed Tanner stage were measured, in addition to the routine preparticipation health evaluation procedures. Of the 118 boys who were Tanner 3 or less (immature), 103 (87%) had weak grips (< 55 lb [24.9 kg]), and 88 (75%) rated themselves as Tanner 3 or less. Of the 246 boys who were greater than Tanner 3 (mature), 223 (91%) had strong grips (≥55 [24.9 kg]), and 229 (93%) rated themselves as greater than Tanner 3. Six of the 118 immature boys (5%) had both a strong grip and mature self-assessed Tanner stage; three of the 246 mature boys (1%) had both a weak grip and an immature self-assessed Tanner stage. Only 67 of 364 (18%) boys had grips and self-assessed Tanner staging that were discordant. Use of grip strength and self-assessed Tanner staging may obviate the need for physician assessment of Tanner stage for the majority of adolescent boys prior to participation in collision sports.

Opportunities for Extracurricular Physical Activity in North Carolina Middle Schools

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 597-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Edwards ◽  
Michael A. Kanters ◽  
Jason N. Bocarro
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Middle Schools ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Interscholastic Sports

Background:This study’s purpose was to assess the opportunities for North Carolina adolescents to be physically active in extracurricular middle school environments and to compare opportunities across community types.Methods:Data were analyzed based on the results of an electronic questionnaire distributed to a sample of 431 schools with a response rate of 75.4% (N = 325).Results:Nearly all schools offered interscholastic sports while fewer than half offered intramurals or noncompetitive activities to students. “Open gym” was offered at only 35% of schools, while 24% of schools offered extracurricular activities to students with disabilities. Overall, 43.4% of schools offered special transportation to students who participated in some extracurricular physical activities. Schools in rural areas generally offered fewer programs and had fewer supports than schools located in more urbanized areas. Over two-thirds of rural schools offered no extracurricular programs other than interscholastic sports.Conclusions:Schools can be important settings for physical activity. North Carolina’s middle schools and its rural schools in particular, are falling short in efforts to provide extracurricular physical activity programming recommended by researchers and policy groups.1−6 Lower accessibility to extracurricular physical activities may partially contribute to higher levels of physical inactivity found in the state.

Using a Content Analysis to Examine the Gendering of Sports Newspaper Personnel and Their Coverage

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Pedersen ◽  
Warren A. Whisenant ◽  
Ray G. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Interscholastic Athletics ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
Interscholastic Sports ◽  
School Sports

The purpose of this study was to determine if the coverage given to female and male interscholastic athletics was a function of the gender of the individuals who make up newspaper sports departments. The degree to which males controlled and dominated the newspaper coverage of interscholastic sports was also assessed. The study revealed, from the examination of 1792 articles and 827 photographs, that the newspaper media was clearly the domain of males who made up 91.4% of the reporters, 78.6% of the photographers, 100% of the executive sports editors, and 91.3% of the high school sports editors. The study further determined that there was no association between the gender of the newspaper personnel and the amount of coverage given to female and male interscholastic athletics. Female and male reporters, photographers, and editors were found equally responsible for the under-represented coverage of girls' interscholastic athletics.

Pre-participation Sports Assessment

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 803-806
Author(s):  
James G. Garrick ◽  
Nathan J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Primary Care Physician ◽  
Care Physician ◽  
Health Evaluation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Interscholastic Sports ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Sports Programs

The paper by Goldberg et al (Pediatrics 66:736, 1980) is of interest to the primary care physician in documenting not only what may be one approach to the often demanding and frustrating problem of large numbers of pre-participation health examinations, but most particularly in reporting what is found in a large number of such examinations when performed on high school boy and girl athletes. The physician may not appreciate that there are as many as 7 million high school students involved in interscholastic sports programs each year; potentially all are candidates for this type of health evaluation. If the pre-participation sports examination is to be effective and economically realistic, its goals must be precisely defined.

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