Steroid usage in High School Student Athletes Today”

In the world today, high school sports are taking over headlines in all kinds of areas including the media, newspapers, and even the T.V. Wins or losses is very important to high school athletes now because of the media attention they would get if they’re winning all the time versus a team that loses often. Students and coaches believe that getting the media attention would help get students into college and more exposure for their school to make money also. Kids believe in winning at all cost, and now, more kids are buying steroids online to gain muscle strength and to become more faster, which they believe will help them to become better athletes. It has become a huge issue because coaches are powerless to stop the use of their players using steroids. In fact, a coach in Texas was caught giving his high school football players steroids to enhance their performance on the field. When other coaches were wondering why the kids were bigger, faster and stronger than average it raised eyebrows. The Congress had agreed to give the kids a drug test and more than half the team test positive for steroids usage. Many speculate about the question “how many high school athletes or taking steroids and getting away with it”? Steroids are a huge issue in society today in sports. We have seen many athletes go to jail and some have even been stripped of medals in the Olympic Games. Taking steroids is considered as cheating the Games and is not allowed in most sports today. Some of the important athletes that have tested positive for steroids are Marion Jones, Ken Shamrock, Alex Rodriguez, and all time homerun king Barry Bonds. It’s important to society to test our children that are in sports for steroids because it has became so easy for kids to get their hands on it. In high school, more football players and wrestlers test positive for steroids. However, which way you want to look at it it’s cheating which isn’t acceptable in sports today. Steroids are an extremely harmful drug to a young adult’s body because of the growing stages young adults go through. I have also played high school football for four years. In my years of playing football I have eyewitness a team that had big kids like they played for college team. The team was also in our conference and we played against them twice a year. The kids were so big it was like we were out there playing with grown men. The team we faced won state every year for five years. The kids were so big my coach thought that they were taking something to enhance their performance such as steroids. Come to find out, my coach was able to have the school conduct a random drug test to see if their players were on anything. They couldn’t test the whole team bout almost half of them. I remember six of their players tested positive for steroids and were suspended for five games. We didn’t get what we wanted, we were hoping they would conduct more test to all the players because we knew more of them would test positive for the same drug. The school district had told my coach that they could not conduct more tests because it was so expensive to test these kids. I believe to this day, that we were not treated fair and it was a lot of cheating going on because of them taking these drugs. It wasn’t fair to our team and other team in our conference. Things I need to know about more on this issue is how much it cost to have student athletes tested so it can be fair to others. I would also want to know “Who is paying for these tests and what’s the maximum penalty for students who have been caught “? I like to find out “what the effects of steroids in the human body”? These or the most important questions I have for this issue of student athletes talking steroids in high school.