Sentences with phrase «sporting schools football program»

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When college administrators talk about their football programs, they talk about sports being the «front door» of their school, the face they show the world.

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

Held at Madison Elementary School, 601 S. Madison St., the program, usually held on Monday, offers 1 1/2 hours of such sports as soccer, basketball and football, and games such as tag, dodgeball and capture the flag.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomSports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

November 4, 2011 — As the high school football season heads into the playoff stretch and upcoming winter sports season begins The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society (PATS), announced today that it has partnered with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care professionals.

August 4, 2011 — As the high school football season gets underway this week in Florida, the Athletic Trainers» Association of Florida (ATAF) announced today it has forged a relationship with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care professionals.

It includes the work of youth sports expert and author Brooke de Lench (who lives in Concord) as she tries to reduce the concussion rate in a football program at an Oklahoma high school.

In addition to GENYOUth, the summit partners included National Dairy Council, the National Football League, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American School Health Association; health professionals, educators, athletes, students, chefs, and corporations came together not only to explore the connections between health and learning, but to find ways to increase access and participation to programs which benefit students health, learning, and lives.

As part of its commitment to improve athlete health and safety at all levels of sport, the NFL Foundation has launched a pilot grant program to increase the number of high school football players with access to an athletic trainer.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2013, Episode 10: The explosion of programs that showcase the country's best high school football players have become a growing problem for the NCAA.

«When the Game Stands Tall» is based on the true story of Concord, California's De La Salle High School football program, and head coach Bob Ladouceur, who lead the team to the longest winning streak in sports history — 151 games in a row — from 1992 - 2003.

The components of HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's physical education program shall include a variety of kinesthetic activities, including team, individual, and cooperative sports and physical activities, as well as aesthetic movement forms, such as state activities the HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL provides, such as Hip Hop dance, cheerleading, indoor track, creative movement, basketball, tennis, T - Ball, flag football and Girls on The Run as well as, goals to increase physical activity for students to satisfy the Healthy Schools Act requirement.

Few public schools (district - run or charter) serving low - income neighborhoods have successfully implemented a project - based STEAM program coupled with in - and after - school enrichment that include sports (no football though), arts, and extracurricular clubs.

Out - of - school activities in the United States also often include school sports, which are unfairly attacked in The Smartest Kids in the World, Ripley tells anecdotal stories about touring private schools with groups of parents who do not question the guide admitting the math program was weak but balk at the same statement about the football program.