The sports in school education aren’t just limited to physical activities as children today choose sports as their career and it has become equally essential as academic values. 1. Enhances Health: When children engage in sports, it enables them to build their muscle strength, reduce fat, burn cholesterol, increases height, lung capacity, and prevent the body from obesity, or problems like high blood pressure or diabetes. Sports education has greatly emphasized that physical activities are not just about being healthy but fitness should become a lifestyle. 2. Enhances Character: Playing sports develops a child’s character to become confident and adaptable. It also instills patience, self-discipline, perseverance, to accept the beauty of defeat and improving their skills, teamwork, and lifelong healthy habits of fitness which they will carry till adulthood. 3. Enhances Leadership: Becoming captain or aspiring to become one, naturally teaches children how to become good leaders – how to talk to other teammates, manage team emotions, taking crucial decisions, etc. These leadership experiences will be critical to working their way up as adults for shaping their career. 4. Enhances Academic Performance: It helps to strengthen their belief system and confidence, which results in improved academic performance. Participation in sports has proven to increase cognitive and memory functions of the brain, helping kids perform better in academics. The power of focus, discipline, or perseverance that comes from playing sports also enables the child to thrive well in academics. 5. Enhances Social Life: Physical stimulation releases beta-endorphins, and also the levels of serotonin in the central nervous system causing an increase in appetite, and the feeling of well-being that reduces stress and accentuates the feeling of happiness. When a child is happy and healthy it reflects in their social interactions with others. The improvement in energy levels that come from playing sports enable children to be active, jovial and playing in teams makes them develop a sense of belongingness and an opportunity to make new friends. These communication and social skills in turn help them in their future relationships and careers.