Step V: Argument Presentation

This is my presentation for my step five argument presentation.

My argument was why playing sports is important for young athletes.

So to start off we have just a table of contents

covering

the three main topics

that I will be addressing in this slide show.

And then

the issue of my argument is that many athletes are

only ever playing one sport but that puts them at

a high risk for more injuries burn out and does

not have the same benefits as playing multiple sports.

And so for the first slide we have injuries

and

throughout these sides are we playing a little bit of good cop and bad cop

with the

information. So to start off

we have overuse injuries are becoming more and more common in young athletes.

Many athletes are starting

to work too hard,

younger ages

and their muscles don't have time to fully develop.

Which

is

a big reason.

And

one just one of the reasons for why these overuse injuries are becoming more common

and the repetitive motion of certain exercises can be damaging.

So

for an example of this

uh

a guy who just plays baseball,

they're repetitive motion of throwing a ball over and

over again for multiple hours and multiple days a week

it can become straining.

And if that's all he's doing and not doing either cross training or another sport.

He's only using that one set of muscles which

is

runs a high risk of injuring it because that's all he's doing

here are some facts.

This is from when my sources from my paper, it says

um 20 23,912 primary pediatric A. C. L. Reconstructions in new york state

that is the number of surgeries that

kids had to have for A. C. L. Reconstruction.

And then with some more research I found that the

average age for a CCL tears in 2018 was 33.

But

I mean I can name five people off the top of my head that I know they have torn the A. C. L.

And they're under 18

so they're definitely becoming more and more common.

There's also a lot of psychological aspects that come with playing

Just one sport or multiple sports altogether.

Some of the positives are it can give kids a great chance to learn life lessons

and also

gives young athletes a sense of teamwork and friendship.

But there are again the good cop bad cop

argument that serious injuries can be devastating on an athlete's

mental health and also at higher levels of play.

It can mess with an athlete's head if they think they aren't good enough

as kids want to work harder and harder and start

playing at higher at more advanced levels at club.

They might not be the best on their team. And that could really mess with their head.

If they come from a small small town program where they're used to

blowing their competition out of the water to be in that new environment.

It can be seriously detrimental if they're not prepared for it.

And then the benefits of athletics

again it teaches kids life lessons,

it gives them that sense of teamwork and friendship and it makes them work harder,

not only on the field, but it can also transfer over to their academics.

And it also just teaches discipline

which is

a great life

lesson to learn young.

Yeah.

And now here are the benefits of multiple sports.

Before the rest of this presentation talked

about both single sport and multiple sport athletes here,

we're just gonna be focusing on the benefits of multiple sports

and how

in playing multiple

has maybe some different advantages that singles more athletes might not get.

So there are fewer serious injuries and less regrets and many tough athletes

played or still play multiple sports and they have less a risk of burnout.

And then so to expand a little bit on

that less serious injuries Playing multiple sports you develop

that's supposed to see more a little typo there,

but you develop more muscles in different muscles

which decrease your risk of serious injury.

Back to the baseball example,

if that baseball guy had been playing soccer or swimming or cross training,

then he'd be working different muscles than just the ones he'd used for throwing,

which can

not only increase your stamina

but also having more developed muscles wouldn't put so

much pressure on the overdeveloped muscle that he used

when throwing which can decrease the risk for injury

and then let's have a risk of burnout.

So it isn't also a nonathletic term,

but the athletic definition for burnout is the feeling of physical

or emotional exhaustion when an athlete sport loses value to them

from training, competing in

if they're training and competing too much,

they could come to resent and lose interest in their sport,

which is a really sad thing to see in many

athletes because especially when you get to the higher levels,

the athletes

love their sports so much and that's why they commit so much to it

because they want to get better and because while they love the game,

so to see an athlete, burnout can be really

difficult

and that also can be a really difficult thing to deal with.

And then playing multiple sports decreases. This leads to burnout because there

playing multiple sports, they're mixing up what they're doing,

what they're practicing and rather than just playing the spain sport all the time,

they have different experiences

and

it's just easier to enjoy it more.

And then to wrap up

people,

athletes who play multiple sports tend to have

less regrets and also just top athletes,

um

top athletes

are more often than not multiple sport athletes,

so we're going to dive into the less regrets part

first.

So playing multiple sports sports gives you a feel for what you like and don't like,

I know that I played basketball growing up and I

absolutely did not like it was a sport for me,

but

I played it and I learned that I didn't like it and same things across

I played it and I learned that I loved it so now it's what I play

currently.

But I was able to determine that because I played both in

a plethora of other sports bows.

I learned from those experiences

and also another type of I'm going to go back and fix these

after we're done here. But it also gives the chance to try different things.

Like I said before just switching it up seeing what you like and what you don't like.

And then a statistic I found was that 43% of N. C. A.

Players wish they spent more time playing other sports

which

And see a college athletes that's pretty high level.

So for almost 50% of them to wish they played other sports that

that speaks to something.

Mhm.

And then to wrap up top athletes are usually multiple sport athletes as well.

In the same

mm

document I found

where the N. C. A. Players which they spent more time playing other sports.

A whopping 88% of N. C. A. Division one. Athletics play multiple sports growing up.

And if you're not familiar with sports

division One is the highest level of collegian

competition

that

you can participate in at the college level and

88% is a lot and so maybe that speaks to

how much

how beneficial playing multiple sports is that

such a big percentage of these top college athletes

Played multiple growing up,

and then also 91 of the NFL first round draft

picks from 2017 had played multiple sports in high school.

The statistic or the 91% was the statistic

that was

Written out,

that was 29 out of the 32 of them had played multiple sports in high school.

And on the right here we have a picture of Patrick Mahomes,

currently playing the Kansas City Chiefs.

He is

quite a great example, if not an extreme example of

this as he

is a multi sport athlete and has both played professional baseball and football.

So he really took the multiple super athlete

to another level.

And that is my presentation on why playing sports is important for young athletes.

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