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ABSRACT
This study aims at exploring the opportunities for balancing sports participation and academic commitments among Uniben student-athletes, to find out the challenges they face and strategies they use to manage their time effectively.Additionally , the impact of this balance on their academic success would be determined. The research design adopted was the descriptive survey research design and the research instrument used was a self structured questionnaire.Responses was collected from a sample of 123 student-Athletes from a population which consists of 244 student-athletes .The sampling technique used was Efe simple random sampling techniques.
The demographic data was analyzed using frequency and percentage. The responses to each item were analyzed using mean and standard deviation.Chi-square was used in testing the hypotheses.From the data analysis it was discovered that Athletic participation significantly influences Academic commitment of the student athletes .Also it was discovered that balancing athletic participation and academic commitment helps one’s future career, open up internship and/or job opportunities, earn scholarships,time management skills.
Due to the findings of this research, recommendations were made which includes , encouraging students to participate in sports activities as there are benefits inherent in it irrespective of whether it affects student-athletes academic commitment or not ,students should ensure to strike a balance between sports and academics so they do not waver in their academic commitment.
