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Dava Van Bebber

Mr. Conrad
Period 3 English 4
26 October 2015
The Real Life About Athletes and Sports
The truth of young athletes injuries . The truth is that Coaches are putting the idea in kids
head, they will not have a professional career if they do not put in practice and training everyday.
Parents and coaches are the real reason why kids get hurt because they want their kids to be the
best. Kids are injured as a result of being pushed by coaches and parents expectation. Parents
push their kids till the point where they end up getting hurt playing a sport, but Coaches put ideas
in kids head about going to college and being pro, this really affects the athlete and what the
outcome of the injury. On the other hand what do the kids think about their parents and coaches.
Parents get really involved in their kids sports in a positive manner, but the effect could
be negative and harmful to the kids. At many games ...parents push a child too forcefully to
excel in sports, injuries are a frequent result(Hatter). This is a very true fact that parents do
push their kids and then the kids end up getting injured. In every sport people are scaling back
participation in response to injuries [that] might causes a child to lose ground, which [some]
parents might have trouble accepting(Hatter). For some parents get too caught up in their
childrens sports and it becomes their identity. In all reality, parents need to behave strongly
when it comes to sports and their involvement in their childs participation. A parents savvier
involvement in a sport can also be a bad influence on the young participants in the sport as well.

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Parents may argue that they are not the reason for young athletes injuries. Parents just
want their kids to better at playing sports , so they are hard on their children. Also parents thrive
to have a kid who is excellent at sports because it makes them feel important and they achieved
at something good in their life. On the other hand kids probably disagree with this statement
because when parent are hard on them they think that they have to push themselves to be the
best, but that's not true. When kids think they need to push themselves, this is when the injuries
start to take effect on the young athlete's body.
Coaches are another reason for players injures. When kids in elementary [schools] are
being told by coaches that if [kids] dont play year-round [kids] wont get a scholarship to
college or a professional contract(Broken). Kids get told this on a daily basis Dont believe
it(Broken). Kids end up pushing themselves too hard because of what their coaches said and
then they end up getting injured or they hurt themselves so hard it affects them for the rest of
their life. A good example is a young kid name Kellen, Kellen Coach pushed him hard the
pain [in his arm] came back(Broken). After that happened the coach told Kellen that if you
refuse to play, [kellen will] lose the respect of the coach and [his] teammates(Broken). Coaches
put this idea in their players minds that athletes have to fight through the pain, for yourself and
for your team. This is not true at all; coaches should never push their players to this point.
Everyday coaches push their players to the max, even if the player is in pain or injured. This
could affect the result of how many injures there are in the world and how many young athletes
have a severe enough injuries they have to go into surgery.
There are many types of injures that accrue for young athletes. Many athletes suffer
from tennis elbow, pitchers elbow, sliding ankle, football knee, and water skiers bruises..
(Athletic injuries). There are lots of other injuries that occur, but these are just some of injures

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and the most common that happen. Its kind of funny that all these injures have a name of a sport
in them and how these sports have the most injures in them. Rice is the only way an athlete can
get better and not have surgery or therapy. Rice stands for R=restI =ice C=compression
E=elevating..(Athletic injuries). Rice is the only true thing that can help an athlete. These
injures are just some affects on the human body that some young athletes come across when they
are playing sports. If not taken care of properly you can get injured even more or you have to get
surgery done.
Coaches believe that they are doing nothing wrong to young athletes. The coaches
reasoning for not being reliable for athletes injures , is that kids are going to get injured anyways
and there's nothing they can do to stop injures. Coaches believe that if they are honest with their
player, the players will work harder in practice. Overall Players think that the reason why
coaches push athletes is they just to win and coaches will do anything to win, even if it
endangers they player safety.
Athletes, of course, many want to question whether that coaches or parents are the reason
why players are getting injured every day. Many young athletes are being pushed too hard and
theyre sustaining career-ending injuries before theyve even had a chance to compete at a
college level, yet alone pros(Extreme). Players start off practicing hard at a young age; they do
not know that the body can only be pushed to a certain limit before something happens. Kellen is
another good example because he was just another kid who played baseball three or four
multi practices every week(Broken). One day Kellen had a stiffa little swollen
[shoulder](Broken), he found out that he had sustained injury of his muscle in his shoulder.
Players think that it is mandatory to go to these practices because of the coaches, little do they
know, it is okay to skip a few practices because you need a break. Choose what your body is

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telling you instead of listening to your coaches. Your body knows whats best for you. Overall
players are getting injured everyday because of the coaches and parents push them. Players do
have the right to say no because they are in pain and they do not want the pain to grow or get
worse.
Players believe that they just play the sports for fun, and to make their parents proud.
Young athletes play sports to just ahem fun and meet new people when they are young. plus
young athletes love to have new experiences when they are young. Little to athletes know is that
the real reason is that athletes just want to impress their parents. Also so parents try to receive
their sports life through their children.
Athletes get injured all the time from things, even if it's not sports related. Doctors see
patients all the time for injures, but only a few of the injures are from playing a sport. Many
athletes disagree that injure do not come from sports, because most athletes do get injured in
every sport they play. No matter how long they have been okaying or how are you try kids will
always end up getting injured.
The reader hopefully understood in this essay that coaches and parents are some of the
reasons why young athletes get injured and what ideas they are putting in their head at a young
age. Also that many kids who play a sport do get injured every season. Many people do not
know that Sport injures hurt between 3 million and 4 million Americans every year(Heading
off sports injuries). Athletes still can go to college or pros, they just need to listen to their bodies
and not strain them, and they do not push themselves to the point of an injure. This topic is
important because everyone around the world need to know that athletes are getting injured
everyday and people need to know why are getting hurt. Coaches and parents are taking part in
young athletes injures and the is more research to prove that in the world.

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