Women make up 52 percent of the American population and 2.4 million girls play sports in the U.S. today. Over one-third of all female students in high school play sports. The number of women participating in university sports has tripled, according to CNN<\/em>. But the odds are stacked against female teenage athletes, and by age 17, 51 percent of them will quit sports, according to a survey conducted by teen vogue. <\/em>There is no reason in our modern age that women in sports should not be covered equally to men\u2019s sports. In a world where male athletes receive $179 million more in athletic scholarships than their female classmates, where NBA players earn about 70 times more than the average female basketball player makes.And only six to eight percent of sports media coverage is of women\u2019s sports. The promotion of high school girls\u2019 sports is even more necessary now than ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While the most notable difference is usually the lack of people attending women’s sports than men’s. That’s not always the case. In multiple sports women actually beat the average attendance records then their fellow male players. Tennis earnings at the majors are biased against men. Most commonly women\u2019s volleyball teams have better attendance records over their male counterparts. While the most notable difference is usually the lack of people attending women’s sports than men’s. That’s not always the case. In multiple sports women actually beat the average attendance records then their fellow male players. Tennis earnings at the majors are biased against men. Most commonly women\u2019s volleyball teams have better attendance records over their male counterparts. Yet none of these sports are mainstream, men still get the popular vote towards common sports. This pattern can even be seen by our own athletic programs. Throughout multiple seasons our girls teams has lacked in the crowds of fans that the boys team bring. \u201c I\u2019ve been on sports teams throughout my entire high school experience when people don\u2019t come to your game when you expect a big crowd, It sucks. Then you watch the boys game with a bigger crowd, when they don\u2019t play any better than we do.\u201d says senior Cassie Murphy. Any athlete can tell you boy or girl, any game with crowd is better game. \u201c We need the extra energy that we get from the crowd.\u201d says Sophomore Grace Digiovanni, \u201c that\u2019s what picks up the teams when we are feeling tired.\u201d And the greater amount of people that show up at the games the more fun it will be for the people that do come. \u201c Being in the crowd you can get hyped up and it’s always more fun when more people are there no matter the sport.\u201d says freshman Kali Leslie. It is part of the experience for sports fans to be surrounded by people cheering and having fun Every athlete boy or girl no matter the sport needs the support from their peers \u201c if there are more peers and friends round you to support you, you are more motivated.\u201d says freshman Nick Dekaney. While people may not realize, it\u2019s an important part of the game and its atmosphere. Change must start somewhere. Make a decision to show, promote and advertise men\u2019s and women\u2019s sporting events equally. Photo for photo and word for word. Everyone deserves it — families, schools, coaches, fans and especially the athletes. With the men\u2019s Syracuse basketball team setting a new all time record of over 35 thousand fans in the dome at the SU versus Duke game in February. A questioning problem emerges. According to Syracuse.com how does our SU women’s team only have a attendance record of just over 11 thousand fans. This problem can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u201c If there are more peers and friends around you to support you, you are more motivated.\u201d <\/strong> – Nick Dekaney<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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