Identification of factors that predispose senior high school students towards participation in intramural sporting activities

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