Just food for thought, but keep in mind the student-athletes who are either not religious at all or not of the same denomination as the prayer being said. If you're at a religiously based school, you kind of signed up for it, but at a public school it is incredibly uncomfortable to have to stand in on a prayer that everyone else on the team is doing or pretending to do. Very few people would be willing to speak up about their discomfort and no one is going to be disrespectful and be the only person with their back turned or not in the circle.
