Hello. My name is Andrew Dugoni. I am a freshman in Professor Bousquet’s Writing with New Media Class. I have chosen to do my topic about the student-athlete because I personally have been a student athlete most of my life. I wanted to share my own personal stories with people and I also wanted to learn more about the lives of student athletes. The lives of student athletes are almost completely different from those of the average student. It is both time consuming and requires much dedication. It involves a lot of work because it calls for most of your attention. It is difficult because a student athlete can no just focus on school or just on sports. They go hand in hand. However, school is more important because without passing grades, you cannot play sports. There is a reason why it is said student-athlete and not athletic-student. Not everyone who plays sports will go off to play that sport professionally. So colleges and the NCAA ensure that students put school first to make certain that they will do well even if they don’t go off to play sports professionally.

The site I used for my logos was cooltext.com. I enjoyed using that site because it helped give my pages more “pop.” There were many sites that I also used to look at to learn from and use as examples. I especially liked the one about convict labor. Not convict labor itself, but the site. It was well made with plenty of text and plenty of examples. When reading it I understood what the writer was saying and the point of what he was trying to prove. I tried to make my site similar to his. Not in appearance, but more as in understanding. I am trying to get those who look at my site to understand what it means to be a student-athlete. It is difficult in that although student-athletes receive some special treatment from the school and from the NCAA, it still requires just as much attention as school. School first, sports second. I was also trying to give some background information about college sports to those who don’t know what they are or to those who want to play sometime in their life.