At first this article is hard to understand because the opening paragraph does not state the main idea. The main idea being that some people think that sports in high school and college have a negative effect on athletes. In my personal opinion the opening paragraph didn't really catch my attention. It talks of a girl running down the street with many goals in her life. To me this just didn't catch me.
Although the first paragraph didn't catch me I was very impressed with the following 14 paragraphs.All of the paragraphs after the first one really helped to build on the main idea of the negative effect. What really helped me to see the statistics was that the writer used many survey's to get the number of people negatively affected by sports in my head. Although the writer is trying to get the negative effects of sports across she also mentions the positive as well. Saying that not all sports, such as badminton, require large amounts of time and not a lot of aggression. Thus positively affecting the athlete.Being an athlete myself I do not agree at all with what this article I saying.
Sports have an enormous positive effect on teens. Staying in physical shape as well as making friends can be very rewarding. I was surprised that the author didn't include the counter arguments that I just said. To me I think that these two things would be two of the best counter arguments that could be made in a situation like this. I really liked the way that the author ended this article. The entire article was negative so the writer used a positive conclusion to leave the reader on a high note. Overall this article was written well and I really enjoyed reading it.
