Value Of Sports

Value Of Sports In Schools

An Educated Mind

In A

Healthy Fit Body

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano

(a Latin phrase used in schools routinely years ago,

meaning - sound mind in a sound body)

Statistics compiled by the Women's Sports Foundation show that girls who participate in high school sports are:

ê Three times more likely to graduate

ê 80% less likely to have an unwanted pregnancy, and...

ê 92% less likely to get involved with drugs

Basketball For Women

Nancy Lieberman-Cline and

Robin Roberts

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In a comprehensive, statewide study of the academic performance of high school student-athletes in North Carolina over a three-year period, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association found significant differences between athletes and non-athletes. Five criteria were used, including grade-point average, attendance rate, discipline referrals, dropout rate and graduation rate, for the 1994-95 academic year.

	Athletes	Non-athletes
Grade-point average	2.86	1.96
Average number of absences per 180-day school year	6.52 days	12.57 days
Discipline referrals	30.51%	40.29%
Dropout rate	0.7%	8.98%
Graduation rate	99.56%	94.66%

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