SLS SPORTS
Participation in athletics will promote growth
and development, teach social and
recreational skills, and develop
leadership qualities.The experiences in
athletics will provide the
foundation for our students/athletes to become better citizens.
If it is true that sports undermine the academic mission of our
school, we would expect to see a negative relationship between the
commitment to athletics and academic achievement.
However, the University of
Arkansas’s Daniel H. Bowen and Jay P. Greene actually find the opposite.
They examine this relationship by analyzing schools’ sports winning percentages
as well as student-athletic participation rates compared
to graduation rates and standardized test score achievement
over a five-year period for all public high schools in Ohio.