Self-esteem Builds Female Athletes
Beads of sweat roll down her forehead as she rubs a very
prominent muscle in her calve. Her breathing is deep and hard
but steady as regains her focus to another place in order to
numb the pain. She reaches into a place in her mind where she
has stored an energy that only a dedicated athlete has come to
know. An energy that will take her that extra distance to her
finish mark.
This is a female athlete, a women that is not only strong,
willful, and dedicated but has invested most of her youth and/or
adulthood to get to this height of excellence. This women is a
competitive professional athlete. In the world of men's sports,
these women have had to climb mountains and jump very high
hurtles to get even a small fraction of respect as competitive,
serious athletes.
These women are exemplary in there show of positive self-esteem.
A positive self-esteem has given them strength to never give up
on their dream. Their dream of becoming a true world champion
female in the sports world. Through their years of excruciating
training they have learned a few very important positive
characteristics such as:
-setting goals
achieving a dream that for many become unreachable learning to
perform under pressure understanding the meaning of a team
player learning how to earn and achieve through hard work how to
accept failure and appreciate succession.
Other very positive things come out of women making sports a big
part of their lives.
females in high school do not have time to get pregnant as
little as four hours per week of physical exercise helps to
reduce a teenagers risk of breast cancer by up to 60%. Breast
cancer effects 1out of every 8 American females. it has also
helped to reduce the amount of females suffering from
osteoporosis(brittle bones). females engaging in sports are less
likely to experience depression. Female athletes are also very
much more positive in regards to their body image, again a show
of positive self-esteem. They are trained early in life to
respect their health and nurture their psychological well-being.
These character traits are a must in achieving the limits that
are needed to compete as a professional athlete. These women
have to be on the top of their game, so to speak.
With that in their focus they glow with positive self-esteem and
confidence. They also need all of these positive attributes to
get them where they want to be in regards to their workplace.
About 80% of women that are in high executive positions were
athletes during certain periods of their lives. This is a good
thing. Through their training and disciplined lifestyles, they
have succeeded not only in sports, but also in their careers.
These female athletes also made a mark in history and continue
to do so, against all odds.
Unfortunately as in any thing we deal with in life, there is the
reality of abuse and stereotyping. Many woman fear the label of
being called a lesbian, or fear that they would come into
contact with lesbians in the sports world. Sexual harassment,
verbal abuse, emotional abuse and even physical abuse are also
very common negative realities in the sports world. We need to
shout out as loud as we can to get rulings to protect all
athletes in the sports world.
To make life even more unfair, after they have trained and
suffered much pain to win many championships and meet the
challenges that come with being an athlete, they continue to
battle nonsensical enemies such as the media. Oh yes, our great
media strikes yet again. They have taken pictures of female
athletes and turned them into sexual objects. Sporting them in
magazines, scantily clothed as if they were posing for a
pornographic magazine. They have robbed them of their
achievements as serious female athletes. They have offered them
up as sacrificial pieces of meat to satisfy the male appetite.
They rarely if ever show the reality of the female athlete.
Rarely if ever do you find a picture of a disabled athlete
sporting the front of a magazine, but there you have it, even in
the sports magazines they have to use sex to sell. They cannot
even depend on their own merit anymore. In fact the media
continually shows just how cheap they can be. They show no
respect for the reality of people anymore. The media has totally
blinded the world as to what a competitive female athlete is all
about.
The female athlete is all about:
strength skill power ability to achieve a goal pure
self-discipline desire to achieve excellence determination to
win the drive to push against against all odds Women of the
sports world, I commend you for your courage and ability to
reach your destination. You show all the women of the world
today that we can do it. You show us how very important it is to
have a positive self-esteem. You show us professional female
athletes at their best. For that, I thank you!
"Desire is the most important factor in the success of any
athlete" Willie Shoemaker