Why Sports are Important for Women

Sports teach girls to succeed

Want your daughter to climb to the top of the business world?  Put a basketball in her hands.  Or sign her up to swim, run, jump, skate or spike.  NCAA President Myles Brand, citing a University of Virginia study, says 80 percent of female Fortune 500 executives played college or high school sports.  “That’s a remarkable number,” Brand said earlier this month at a two-day Ethics in Sports Conference at Ripon (Wis.) College. “Why is that? The reason is they learned the kind of values and skills and personal temperament that helps them in their future lives.”

Such as dealing with struggles…Brand said depression is a far bigger problem among college freshmen than it used to be. That regular students, used to getting A’s in high school, drop out if they start out with C’s in college. But not athletes, he said. They know the answer to a loss is to work twice as hard the next week in practice.  “Life isn’t all victories,” Brand said. “We all have our ups and downs. Knowing how to respond to negative things, and to learn from that and move on, is an important trait that you learn very well in athletics, and less well if you are not an athlete.”

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