Inequality among Sports Teams

       From my personal stand point, high school sports teams are not equally funded let alone supported. Across the board the high school sports teams vary from football to wrestling. While the football team is very well known and well funded, wrestling along with many other sports, does not get nearly as much attention and funding. Playing on the women’s golf team at Page and making it to the State Tournament, you can see my frustration when we got no recognition. Despite the fact that we finished 3rd in the state and the boys football team finished second we got no recognition while the football had lots of special treatment. This sense of inequality across the board with the sports team should be changed. It is clearly unfair to the players on the unsupported teams who work hard and don’t get recognized. If it were based on funding brought in for the funding sports received, then football would deserve the money, but not necessarily the recognition. While football brings in lots of money and publicity, if a sport finishes just as well if not better then then they should get the same amount of recognition.