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Author note: The role of the sport in promoting equity, access and equality

   

Added on  2021-04-22

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Running head: VOLLEYBALLVOLLEYBALLName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:

1VOLLEYBALLProfessor Peter Figuero has developed an important tool that helps in investigating thedifferent issues that mainly remains based on the equity, access and equality in sports. This hasbeen constructed over five levels that are cultural, structural, institutional, interpersonal andindividual (Figueroa & An, 2017). Each of the levels of the framework is seen to be connectedwith each other that in turn help in assessing the physical activities of individuals. The mainpurpose of the essay is to discuss mainly two important levels of the framework (interpersonaland individual) that had created significant barriers for my participation in the volleyball game. Iwill mainly conduct an evaluation about how these levels had affected my performance in thelong run and the initiatives that I will take to overcome the barriers in the game of volleyball.One of the levels is the interpersonal level. This level is mainly seen to affect mybehavior, my personal progress as well as my access to effective participation in the game(Mezzadri et al., 2017). This level will help to discuss how my relationships with my parents,peers, sport models, coaches and siblings had been influencing in my career and the sportingopportunities I had in volleyball. My families role is highly impacting as they are the agents whoare directly associated with my attitudes, behaviors, access and participation. They provideresources like money, time, enthusiasm, courage and people skills that are very important for anindividual like me who is progressing with volleyball game opportunity. I often used to fall onthe ground while practicing as I had a poor balance and hurt myself several times. This made mebed-ridden for several days for which I had to miss volleyball classes in schools. I used to beweak initially and feared to lead the team. My coach used to treat me badly as I performedpoorly and had no enthusiasm. My other teammates used to make fun of me when I used to fallwhile playing. This affected me mentally and emotionally resulting in poor self-esteem and lackof confidence. This delayed my entire sports career. Moreover, several stereotypes had affected

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