High School Sports Teach Leadership and Teamwork Skills
Participation in high school sports is a great way to personally develop and obtain life skills that will help guide you towards a successful future inside and outside of the classroom. There are numerous benefits of school athletics, such as learning how to be part of a team, building discipline, acquiring leadership skills and learning how to best manage your time. Choosing to be a part of a team sport at St. Francis High School will allow you to learn how to communicate effectively not only with teammates and coaches, but also teachers and real world people you will encounter on a daily basis.
Using your voice as a student-athlete is key for communication and growing leadership skills. Being a part of a team sport at St. Francis High School means you have a wide support system of many people who are looking out for you and are there to help you succeed in becoming the best version of yourself. High school coaches at St. Francis foster teamwork and leadership skills through incorporating team cohesiveness and bonding, as well as building confidence within each individual athlete. School sports have an immensely positive effect on each individual athlete’s future success in life and in the sport they love.
Leadership Skills Learned in High School Sports
High school sports at St. Francis teach athletes how to become confident leaders that others will listen to and look up to. Every sport at St. Francis allows for personal growth and a time for the athlete to find their voice. By simply being a part of a team sport at St. Francis developing leadership skills through your sport will be inevitable.
As a soccer player, on the field being vocal and supportive is key to finding success. I see in each of my teammates on and off the soccer field outstanding leadership skills. Picking up and motivating a teammate who is having a rough day or rallying the team together after a win or loss are both examples of leadership skills. I see it everyday in team sports. Leadership comes in all different shapes and forms, but it is all about working together and communicating in the right ways. High school sports encourage independence within each athlete as they learn to be a leader and step up when the time is right. A life lesson I have learned through participating in high school sports is that no one voice is louder or more important than another. Each athlete and member of a team brings something different to the table and is critical for each member of a team to understand the importance of the role they play.
The Use Of Teamwork In High School Sports
Teamwork is a life skill taught through high school sports that applies to all aspects of an athlete’s life. Each member of a team has a role to play and together when each person plays their part it creates a strong united team. As a student-athlete being a part of the soccer team at St. Francis has helped me realize how so much of what I do on the field applies to the classroom and the real world. On the field I learn how to communicate with my teammates in a way that is supportive and efficient. When playing in the fast paced game environment, being able to communicate efficiently and work well with my teammates helps me be game ready. In a classroom setting there are group projects and certain times you will be asked to work with a team.
Having the knowledge and capability to communicate with teammates, learned from high school sports can take away added stress of working in a group. In a team sport you must work together with your teammates, as there is no world in which one person on a team can do everything. The sport is what brings the athlete and their teammates together, but just simply having the shared love for the sport will not hold a team together fully. Along with the shared love for the sport in which the athlete plays, a good team is built of trust, communication and respect. Teamwork is taught and incorporated in every aspect of a team sport at St. Francis.
The Positive Effects of Leadership and Teamwork Skills in High School Sports
Learning how to best communicate with teammates and be a leader who makes a positive impact are two skills taught in high school sports that extend to the real world. Working well within a team is a skill that will be useful through an athlete’s entire life. Having a positive high school sport experience that builds confidence and leadership skills will never leave an athlete. Both the teamwork and leadership skills an athlete acquires through their high school sport will lead them down a path of success.
