1. Collegiate Sports Hazing
Should coaches and administrators
look the other way?

2. Hazing
• Any activity expected of someone joining a
group that humiliates, degrades, or risks harm
• 80% of college athletes subjected to some
type of hazing
– Half is alcohol related and two-thirds humiliation
related

3. Constructive or Destructive?
MYTH:
Hazing increases cohesion within a team
TRUTH:
Hazing breaks down relationships instead of
building them

4. Bibliography
• Chin, Jessica. “Making the Team: Threats to Health
and Wellness Within Sports Hazing Cultures.”
International Journal of Health, Wellness & Society
1.2(2011): 29-38. Academic Search Complete. Web. 6
March 2014.
• "StopHazing.org -- "Educating to Eliminate
Hazing"" StopHazing.org -- "Educating to Eliminate
Hazing" StopHazing.org, 2010. Web. 06 Mar. 2014.

5. I chose this topic because I am an athlete and
even though I have not personally had to deal
with hazing, I have friends and coaches who
have. I feel that the world likes to think that
hazing is isolated to the Greek world, but
unfortunately that’s not the case. My team is
very close and I couldn’t imagine inflicting pain
either physically or mentally on any of them. In
researching this further I hope to learn what
exactly the purpose of hazing is and how it
affects those who fall victim to it.