Definition: A student athlete is a participant in an organized competitive sport sponsored by the educational institution in which he or she is enrolled. Student athletes must typically balance the roles of being a full-time student and a full-time athlete.
Our Movement
- We are advocating that the NCAA should give their Division I student athletes monetary stipends throughout their attendance of school. Student athletes in NCAA sports should get paid for playing their respective sports because it takes up most of their time, the schools make millions off the sports, and the schools are constantly growing and making more money.
- It is nearly impossible for student athletes to be able to balance being a full-time student and a full-time athlete AND also having a part-time job. There's not enough time in a day to be able to handle all those responsibilities without any downside in either.
"Student" is downplayed from phrase since recruitment
A lot of student athletes attend prestigious schools, even when they are not academically eligible, because they have great talents when it comes to certain sports. Schools are willing to overlook their insufficiency academically if the student athlete can make their sports team better. The student athletes attend these schools on athletic scholarships, not academic ones, and that always seems to be left out when making the argument against them.
The belief that these students don't attend class and put aside their academic responsibilities is completely false. Even though they may be attending a school they wouldn't normally be at, they do what it takes to have passing grades in all their classes in order to be eligible to play their sport. The graduation rate for student athletes is high and continues to grow.
They put more time and effort into being an athlete because it is easier to pass and get a degree with Cs, but nearly impossible to win any sort of championship by knowing only 70% of the team's game-plan or playbook.
They put more time and effort into being an athlete because it is easier to pass and get a degree with Cs, but nearly impossible to win any sort of championship by knowing only 70% of the team's game-plan or playbook.