As I watched the gymnastics competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics, I was amazed to see the next Mary Lou Retton successfully and gracefully complete the balance beams. Shawn Johnson is your average 16 year old teenager who maintains a 4.0 GPA at Valley High School. Well what is so special about her? She just so happened to win the all-around medal at the Summer Olympics for the USA team. Shawn Johnson has been in gymnastics at the age of 3 and has been trained with the same coach, Liang Chow, since she was 6. She devotes her time training 25 hours a week instead of 40 in order to do her school work. Her parents and coach support and encourage her that education is to be number one and then gymnastics is number two.
This is an example of how a high school student who can manage and devote their time on education and can sustain that athletic ability in order to accomplish his/her success. In reading Chapter 14 on sports in high school and college, it indicates that a high school student who participates in interscholastic sports generally depends on their academic score by their social class status. With Shawn’s case, her middle-class status show that the support of her parents, her coach, and friends help her through with academics, sport participation in gymnastics and social life as an average teenager.
Rhona Barroquillo (#003001698)
22 November 2008
KIN 332i. S3200
T/TH 1230p-145p
2 comments:
I think this is good to see taht shawn was able to abalance out her school work and training. It shows that if you are deddicated enough to anything than you will still be able to be succesful. I feel that if i was able t dedicate myself to school as much as i did for sports tahn i would have a muach higher gpa that i do now. Also i would be able to finsih college faster than i am now/
GARRETT COSTLOW
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