16.     Participating in sports helps build leadership skills. Sports teams give you an opportunity to surround yourself with competitive people and role models, and learn from them both. You can demonstrate your own leadership through team captainships and individual actions to improve your team’s success.

12.     As a teen, it is not always easy to find time to spend with your parents. Sports give you and your parents time to appreciate one another.

13.     Providing wisdom and encouragement, a trainer can be a very good role model. The relationship that you develop with your trainer is very important to the success of the team.

14.     To be a good athlete, you must take care of yourself. This gets you thinking about what to eat and how to treat your body to achieve peak performance levels.

11.     Sports bring teens from different schools, colleges, backgrounds, and communities together. Playing sports enables you to meet new people and create relationships you otherwise might not have formed.

15.     When engaging in sports for the first time, you may feel hungrier than usual. This is normal, because your body is expending much more energy than it is used to. Eat a balanced diet. An athlete’s diet should include plenty of complex carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and fats. Limit salt and simple sugar.