Trickle Down Effect with Professional Athletes

As with the teenagers Taylor and Dionne that I mentioned in my last post, the pressure to win by young athletes can be forced by coach's approval, crowd appraisal, and the want of college scholarships. This explains why reporter Anne Bell of News Hour Extra says that " Use is more prevalent at the schools where athletes have a better chance of using sports to get college scholarships." Being an athlete myself from a more wealthy side of the town I experienced first hand just how far my fellow teammates went to obtain a college scholarship. Most athletes where I was from were expected to get scholarships to play in college and when they realized that practice and training was not enough they turned to steroids. Also, many high school athletes from when they were young have always tried to imitate their professional heroes. Athletes tend to do as their heroes are doing on to improve their own skills. For instance many athletes look up to Barry Bonds since he is one of the best hitters ever lived and therefore they are starting to imitate his batting stance and reading his quotes before every game they play. Today, he is being questioned frequently about steroid use and athletes are thinking that steroids are a good option to take now. This is what John Stewart calls the " trickle down effect". The effect is the result of the teenage athletes seeing professional atghletes abuse steroids without any punishment and realizing that they can get away with the same thing.