Sport Participation and Academic Achievement: A Longitudinal Study

We examined the relation- ship between sport participation and academic achievement in a sample of adolescents, while accounting for socioeconomic status (SES) and sex.We analyzed data from a cohort of 271 Mid-Atlantic high school students who participated in a longitudinal study of risk and protective factors for substance use, teen parenting, and school drop out.Sport participation at year one predicted academic achievement in English (p <...