Playing a sport after school can help a student with a variety of things. It will improve your student’s health because your students will always be active while building up their strength. Sports can also teach them life long skills, such as responsibility, and planning. Students can also release some of their stress or anger in a healthy way.

Some students tend to have a lot of anxiety that can affect them negatively. Instead of letting your student’s anxiety build up, they can release it through physical activities that are able to help their mental well-being and improve their mood in a positive way.

Sports are also a great way to socialize and make new friends. Your student will develop social connections over time by surrounding themselves with people who they would not usually hang out with during school and connecting through different challenges they might face during practices or games. By doing this, students are pushed out of their comfort zone and could possibly create long lasting friendships that wouldn’t usually occur in school.

Sports will improve a student’s self esteem. In addition, sports can help them to develop a hard working personality. Sports and similar kinds of activities can teach them how to handle anger and failure. They also provide leadership opportunities that help to improve communication and achieve goals with teammates and ultimately with family, friends and co-workers.

Sports push someone out of their comfort zone and require them to find solutions under pressure that can benefit the team and express the child’s leadership skills. Sports can teach the student life lessons too. Playing sports teaches someone how to bounce back after losing a game while finding new ways to improve themselves and their teammates.

There are many benefits to playing sports after school!

Written by Bianca Brito ‘28
Bianca plays volleyball, basketball, and runs track for Villa Victoria Academy.