Collegiate Student Athletes Collegiate Student Athletes refers to student-athletes in colleges. There are various activities in colleges for students to be involved in, and one them is sports. Collegiate student athletes are the students who are engaged in college sports and are encouraged to build up a stance for willpower, working in teams, perseverance and self-control. In USA, such athletics is now being considered as an atypical body of higher education, even though it is rarely scheduled in the central mission of an educational institute. Athletics is now commanding excessive visibility, means, effect, and awareness within and outside various university and college grounds. The history of collegiate athletics is old. College students didn’t always have the support of their faculty and administration and therefore, they first started athletic associations for different purposes without even obtaining permission from administration. By 1890, alumni members at various colleges attached with student bodies to form such sport programs that even the head administration at colleges had minimal control over them. In the late 19 th and early part of the 20 th century, college athletics was over shadowed by some specific sports and strong institutions, but its popularity and diversity across various colleges in the USA remained its exceptional feature. The eastern seaboard colleges were the ones to start college sports, but this practice was soon followed in different parts all over the country (Answers, n.d.). Importance of leadership training for college athletes College athletes are not only attending normal education but are also carrying sports along with their education, so they need to be trained differently in certain other things vital for their sports. But sports should not be the mere consideration as it has been observed that numerous college athletes are badly prepared for after-college life and a few experts have even said that they are not ready for anything except a professional sports career, which is achieved by merely 2-3 percent of them (Petina, 1990). The fact remains that training them for sports is an essential part of their education. For this reason, attention is paid to the parts played by athletes as leaders and role models. Results from research shows that those college athletes who display leadership inclinations are positive and anticipate their college experience to be the same way. But leadership is a difficult phenomenon which changes with respect to each person and situation. Similar researches also show that when leadership scores increase, it more expected that good grades will be obtained and the explicit requirement of seeking counseling decreases. Besides, increased leadership scores also reduced the fear of finding difficulty in adjusting to college’s social life and increased the athlete’s knowledge of academic skills resources accessible to them. Positive association has also been found between leadership scores and general education, self-improvement and probability of moving on to a graduate school (Eiche et al., n.d.). This means that college athletes display a positive association between leadership and internal sense of control. It is therefore important to place these athletes in programs that can build up their leadership skil