This study aims to present an improved selecting method for middle school basketball players through sports club system. For this project, I evaluated the present selecting system of talented student athletes and analyzed especially of the selecting s...
This study aims to present an improved selecting method for middle school basketball players through sports club system. For this project, I evaluated the present selecting system of talented student athletes and analyzed especially of the selecting system of the basketball players. Following is the content in abstract.
First, student athletes are those, who register at Korea sports council and whom each school supervises separately as student athletes. At present, there is no special administrative decree which defines student athletes. Only each city and province have educational stipulations which regulate qualifications of such student athletes in their own districts. From the perspective on the education of the whole person, present selecting system for student athletes cause many problems such as deterioration in academic standards, partiality in selecting system, too much concentrations on popular sports, absence of social and financial security, and improper preparation on future career planning.
Secondly, in comparison with the situation 10 years ago, number of basketball players in middle and high schools have decreased, because there are less competent athletes and fewer people choose to become student athletes. The problems in current selecting student athletes system results in neglection of their academic pursuits. Especially, selecting and supplying middle school basketball players is now very jeopardized, and student players are not able to carry normal school life. Furthermore, it is a serious problem that rates of students who give up remaining as student athletes in high schools also increase.
Thirdly, among sports clubs in foreign countries, in Germany, people participate in sports clubs voluntarily, which are greatly mobilized, as the government supports them for the expansion of athletic population in the society. In Japan, school sports club is systematically to be made with ease and conducted by voluntary participation in principle. It causes continuous participation in sports. In America, mostly, people participate through intermural sports events. There is no incentive to the advanced student athletes in their entrances to colleges, which make the student athletes to compensate their lack of attendances in classes like regular students. In Korea, in order to activate Korean style sports clubs, sports club models and school sports club are promoted according to sports club promotion policy.
Fourthly, for the normalization of the school athletic department, we should make effort to change our understanding and carry out education of the whole person for student athletes. Since the Korean Basketball Association proposed a policy to let student athletes to receive normal education, we all should accept it and put to into practice so that the students may grow and develop normally. The system to select student athletes in high school ends up as a tool to distribute students to various schools with respective sports. Therefore, improvement of the system is in need. In order to transform the present system to become sports club system, we need to invest for necessary sports infrastructures, financial supports, and provision of revenues. Likewise, the athletic system at schools also should be transformed to an athletic system which raises athletes through sports clubs.
Fifthly, school sports club should be transformed to a sports club which encourages regulars students to participate voluntarily. We should start with popular sports such as basketball and football from elementary school, middle and high school, and universities gradually. For this, Korean Basketball Association should change its regulation so that players of sports club also may be allowed to participate in games. The selecting system through running school sports club should minimize the interference with the academic pursuit of each student-athletes by retaining a system, which help students to study as well as to be trained as athletes. The Government Education Department should plan games among school sports clubs yearly, taking school curricula into consideration, selecting and supporting regional sports club teams. A system should also be implemented which raise excellent student athletes in cities and provinces by special training so that they may grow as elite student athletes.
According to the result of this research, I may present the following suggestions for the improvement of selecting systems of the talented students in athletics at school athletic department in its selection of basketball players as follows. Government should change school athletic departments to sports clubs and allow them to participate in games in order to introduce sports clubs and to make them settle down.
Lest national sports club games and school sports club games should not remain static again just as athletics in social life, the government should also put efforts to initiate cooperations among athletic associations by allotting respective roles according to their special characteristics, so that they may relate cooperate and compliment with one another more efficiently and organically.