60 • September 2021 sportstyle • sportstylemag.com
IF WE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM THIS PANDEMIC, IT IS THE NEED FOR INFORMED OPINIONS AND GOOD ADVICE. BY JIM HOFF
• TEAM: TRENDS
Education
at all levels
is about
a full-life
experience
and that
is what is
expected
from these
schools. That
experience is
most certainly
enhanced by
participation in
extracurricular
activities.
I
t was recently reported that Stanford
University will be reinstating all 11
sports it rashly considered eliminating
during the pandemic. At the same time
both William and Mary and Dartmouth
reported they intended to remove
planned cuts to varsity sports programs.
This is all excellent news for the world of
team sports as we get back to business in
the summer of 2021.
That some of our most esteemed higher
education institutions have recognized that
the student population wants an academic
advancement from their chosen school is
a step in the right direction after a year
of uncertainty and, dare I say, panicked
decision making.
Education at all levels is about a full-life
experience and that is what is expected
from these schools. That experience is
most certainly enhanced by participation
in extracurricular activities. We all know
that sports provides competition that life
also throws at us — we learn from sports
just as we learn in the classroom. More
importantly, we learn to trust in our ability
to make decisions spontaneously and to
work with others to "achieve." What we
learn by participating in a sport benefits
us throughout our lives.
The Team Dealer As Educator
