The NSA Mission Statement is: “National Sports Academy is dedicated to providing academic and athletic programs that meet the individual needs of committed student-athletes as they prepare themselves for national and international winter athletic competition, college, and life.” If NSA expanded/improved their facilities, then more student athletes would be more attracted to come there. Currently, there are many facilities that students use to their full advantage. These facilities include class rooms, dorms, the hockey rinks, and Whiteface Mountain. Consider the advantages of NSA: class size, the dorm rooms and the facilities offered by the greater Lake Placid region.
The average size class room is 5 students per class at NSA, which is a huge attraction to prospective students. This is an advantage for young students who wish to pursue their education to the next level. They accept individual challenges, and seek individual attention from teachers when necessary.
Here at NSA, dorm rooms are much nicer than college dorms, and other prep school. Students have an individual bathroom, a couple roommates, and can bring anything they want, but have to follow all school rules. The rooms are usually bigger than most schools, giving the students more space to feel more at home.
Students have more freedom at NSA than most prep schools, and that’s why National Sports Academy is unique in their own certain way. Ice hockey players and figure skaters get to experience what it feels like to step on the 1980 Olympic hockey rink, the 32, and the USA rink. Also there is an outdoor rink called the box, which is right outside campus. Alpine Skiers, Nordic Skiers, Snowboarding/Free ride, and Luge enjoy spending their time at Whiteface Mountain.
However, despite these attributes I have listed above, NSA could do more to be attractive to other student-athletes.
NSA is possibly expanding the hockey team into two teams. In order to do this, dorms would need to be expanded along with the cafeteria. The school would not have enough room for another team. NSA would need to purchase property of another house or two for the following year, so students could all fit.
Athletes that come to NSA expect to meet their goals academically and physically. The gym at the hockey rink is always locked, or a teacher has to be present. The school should offer a program to show students how to use the weights, and sign a contract that the school is not responsible if they get hurt. Therefore, students could work out on their own time, and the school wouldn’t be held liable for injuries. If the school suggested this program and allowed students to go to the gym on their free time, they would use this opportunity to be competitive. They wouldn’t need a teacher or facilitator to watch over them. Also students would excel in their sport, and make NSA stand out that much more.
Finally, there is a storage room for hockey bags near the classrooms. Hockey bags have the worst stench, and it’s very hard to get rid of this odor. If they could make a storage room outside of the school, or have their own locker rooms at the rink, then more classes could be taught at NSA, and you wouldn’t have that smell in the basement. This would also attract more student athletes who want the opportunity to go to this school.
The simple truth is that more student athletes would be more attracted to the school if the facilities were updated. If facilities were expanded and improved, National s ports Academy would stand out that much more. Its NSA’s mission to educate student athletes, make them compete, prepared for college, and life. By improving facilities, they would accomplish their mission to a higher satisfaction.
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