Many high school sports have a great influence on the future of students, whether they will or where they go to college. This influence may seem good at the time but later turns into a bad influence, which could end in the student dropping out of school. In recent years, the amount of violence in sports and involvement of parents has helped to put to much stress and pressure on the athletes. When children reach the age where they decide they want to get involved in sports it starts out pure. The child plays the game because of how much fun they have playing it. Children have no pressure to mak

An athlete then pushes their body harder and harder in hopes of getting bigger and better so that they can please their coaches. However, this sometimes ends up in the athlete getting injured because of the strenuous exercise they put their body through for the team. Some coaches even go as far as to give their athletes steroids to help soothe the pain from their injury and allow them to play. However, by playing, the athlete risks further injury by playing on an already injury body part.

The pressure of making a team coming from parents and coaches can force a kid into depression and force them to quit playing the sport because of that pressure. The focus of youth sports has changed recently because of parent involvement in the game, originally the focus of the game rested on the athletes but now the focus has fallen upon the parents. Parent involvement in sports has become increasingly uncontrollable and is leading to more violence on the field. The violence shown by the parents is being called youth sports rage by sports psychologists. This aggression shown by parents compares to that shown by drivers with road rage.

Two days later Costin died in a coma and the charge had been stiffened to manslaughter; Junta would receive twenty years in prison if indicted. Similar events like this one have also taken place, one involving a former professional baseball player and manager. In April 1999, Ray Knight former Cincinnati Reds coach and player was charged with simple battery, disorderly conduct, and affray (fighting in a public place

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