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Research On Operating Mechanism Of Collegiate Competitive Sport In America

Posted on:2005-04-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Q ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360155450509Subject:Comparative Education
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The United States is the most powerful country for competitive sports in the world. The achievement greatness of the student-athlete NCAA is obvious. Over 80% of the members of the previous American Olympic delegation were selected from college. Taking school as the center is the outstanding characteristic of American competitive sports system. Although the higher education system of the United States is more flexible, there is more regulation in the system of training competitive sports personnel. It uses sound management organization, applies legal means of management in operating the competitive sports of college, and also exploits scholarships to attract excellent athletes. It 's a sound and sustainable development system of training athletes. Their experience is to combine competitive sport with education perfectly, to enable the college student to both receive the education and tap the talent power of competitive sports. This is the sustainable development for the competitive sports of country.The enrolment process of American college student athletes can be divided into the authenticating qualification, surveying and evaluating, the student scholarship application and acceptance. The student-athletes of NCAA should have elite sport ability. Besides it, the following levels should be reached: graduation from high school, minimum core grade-point average, minimum SAT or ACT test score and completion of core courses. There are strict requirement on study and training for the student-athletes, it guarantees their study and life. The professional level of the American college coaches is highly valued, the coaches are specialized, and follow the employment system. If it the team's performance is good, then the coach will get very good rewards, usually salary increase. There are two kinds of administrative systems, dependent and in-dependent systems. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in America is the management organization of American collegiate competitive sport and it is a non-profitable organization. The executive committee of NCAA oversees association-wide issues and shall ensure that each division operates consistent with the main purposes of NCAA. According to the event arrangement, stadium and facility and athletes number, the member of association could be divided into division â…  , division â…¡, division â…¢. At the same time, member institutionscould be divided into active membership, affiliated membership, provisional membership, corresponding membership and member conference due to the position the institution occupies. And different member institutions have different right and dues. NCAA is the core of the American collegiate competition. The principles of NCAA guarantee the "healthy development of collegiate competitive sports. The collegiate competition can be divided into two kinds, the championship and regular season. The events can be divided into fall, spring and winter events. NCAA gets the economic foundation of development from the enterprises aid, championship income, the television right, merchant selling.The development of competitive sport can not get away from the education. Opening the way of finding the talented competitive sport student widely, training excellent educated athletes for the country, our government comes into force "Part of common college tries to do the high level sport team" in 1995. However, several years passed, it neither have educated the excellent student-athletes, nor formed the competitive sport match mark. We should slice the successful experience of The United States, solidifying the combination of competitive sport and the higher education, enhancing to the management of university student's athletic( unify to enter school the standard and enhance the student status with study score management, strict provision training time) developing coaches which have relative higher tournament sport experience and higher level of teaching, establishing a national collegiate competitive sport organization with sound laws, growing the market of competitive sport match of our country.
Keywords/Search Tags:America, collegiate competitive sport, NCCA, college student athlete
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