A PERSPECTIVE

In the United States there are 7 million young men and women who participate annually in interscholastic athletics. For these 7 million students, high school sports is a privilege unique to American education.  Only in America is this after-school activity so tightly entwined with a school’s mission - educating boys and girls to become productive members of society and, "Building the Future through Athletics".

However, in our sport-crazed society, some people expect successful educational athletics to be defined by the goals or mission of collegiate and professional sports. Such is not the focus of high school sport.  The opportunities to play organized athletics beyond high school come only to a select few. The samples offered below demonstrate the percent (by sport) of student-athletes who rise to higher athletic levels.