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Coaching High School Girls' Basketball, Danielle Ellison

Master of Arts in Sport Management

Schools in every city and state in America have their prized team and will make sacrifices in the classroom to have their students score on the field" (McMillen, 1991, p, 489). The purpose of this paper is to examine the grades of student athletes and find a way to maintain or make them better by use of study tables and progress reports. As a student athlete, athletes do not realize that they are students first and athletes second, not the other way around. Particularly the girls' basketball team at Como Park High School. As a student athlete, it takes a …