Abstract:
Students who engaged in intramural sports programme during their school years
open themselves up to a wide range of life enhancing benefits. Such benefits
include discovering ways of coping with stress, creating a sense of
accomplishment, finding ways of coping with stress, creating a sense of
accomplishment, finding ways to control body weight and maintaining physical
wellbeing, building friendships and close contact as well as improving various
sports skills. (Banta Bradley and Bryant 1991). The researcher used descriptive
survey for the study and data was randomly collected from 300 students, 24 class
advisors (teachers) of Three Town Senior High School. Questionnaire was used to
collect data. Data was analyzed by the used of frequencies and percentages. Data
reveals that Football is the most predominant intramural sports patronized in the
school. The study reveals that external rewards such as awards and scholarship is
the main reason why majority of students in Three town Senior High School
participate in sports. The study also reveals that student’s motives for participating
in intramural sports varied from one form to another. Example, while first years
participate in intramural sports to expand their interest, the second years and the
third years engaged in it to be creative. Lack of time to combine academic with
sports is the main challenges facing most of the students in this particular school
Description:
A Dissertation in The Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and
Sports, Faculty of Science Education, submitted to the School of Graduate studies,
University of Education, Winneba, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for
award of Master of Education (Physical Education) degree.
