Stress is in everybody's life. From the President of the United States to the farmer, we all have stress. Webster's defines stress as a factor that includes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in the causing of disease. There are many different types of stress that comes from many different sources and they all affect high school students differently.
             I think that one of the most stressful times in a person's life is when they are in high school. High school students have so many things going on at one time; it is only natural that they get stressed out. The main reason that high school students get stressed is their schoolwork. Students don't like to do work; well, most of them anyways. A small amount of work now and then would be fine for students, but teachers love to pile it on. This is what leads to the stress. All the homework gives the students very long nights. They get little sleep, and then the next day, get more work. The weekend is the only time that students get to have their own nights. That is if there isn't an extracurricular activity going on.
             One of these extracurricular activities that is stressful on students is athletics. Athletics is stressful both on the mind and the body. It is stressful on the mind in many different ways. In many sports, such as football and basketball, athletes have many different plays and responsibilities to remember. As games and practices get longer and athletes get more tired, these plays are even harder to remember. Other sports, such as baseball and golf, are very tough mentally because most people fail more often then they succeed trying to perform them. Professional baseball players have good years if they get a hit three out of every ten times. This percentage could really bother high school athletes who are not patient. The physical stress that athletics puts on high school students varies from person to person. Athletes ...