Sentences with phrase «about youth sports»
It has become commonplace to complain about youth sports where kids play without keeping score and everyone gets a participation trophy.
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* Write letters to local and national leaders about youth sports safety issues.
As a mother of triplet sons and a youth sports coach herself, Brooke de Lench has learned a lot first hand about youth sports.
Use social media as a way to help spread the word about youth sports safety.
With that in mind, Dr.. So and Dr. Genin seek to bust several common myths and misconceptions about youth sports and concussions.
She joins Marti for this lively discussion about youth sports, questioning many assumptions, calling out unhelpful parental behavior and challenging us to step up and use proven approaches to help our children reap optimal benefits of organized sports.
Every day when I come to work one of the first things I do is check the e-mails I get from parents and coaches all across the country with stories from newspapers about youth sports, including one from Moms Team expert, Doug Abrams.
But what if someone will help — NFL, an auto part company — I don't care as long as I believe they are sincere about YOUTH sports.
Over the years there have been numerous studies about youth sports: the benefits of them, which sports are most popular, which sports are growing, etc..
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Do you have a question about youth sports that requires special expertise to answer?
Individuals interested in learning more about youth sports (safety, injuries, resources, events, awards, programs, etc..)
And if those aren't reasons enough to take a moment to enter, just listen to what Andrew O'Such, last year's contest winner, had to say about his Youth Sports Congress experience.
Not exact matches
The second is about the teacher / coach / mentor who teaches disenfranchised youth to love math and writing or focus their despair at living into poverty into a sports scholarship to college.
Most of the papers and sports websites have focused on his comments about the Gunners not being able to beat our big Premier League rivals when it comes to spending power and his suggestions that the club's youth policy combined with an ultra careful and disciplined transfer policy will continue to be the Arsenal way.
«In just 46.06 seconds Lezak taught the sports world a lesson about age versus youth, about not speaking too soon and about why we should always keep watching.»
When you write about high school and youth sports for a living, you cross paths with a ton of parents.
By taking the following precautions, you can allow your child to participate fully, and stay active in team youth sports, while you worry less about potential injuries.
The real problem is much more fundamental: all too often youth sports today is not about kids playing sports, it is about how adults are manipulating the system to serve their own interests: the game within the game.
While 81 percent of youth coaches said they believe it is important to be very knowledgeable about sports injuries, only 52 percent said they felt like they were very knowledgeable, according to a recent survey commissioned by SafeKids USA ®.
The screening was held as part of a social media campaign called #ForThePlayers created by Sony Pictures to support the movie's release in which football fans are being encouraged to «Dance or Donate»: either upload a video of their touchdown dance to YouTube or Instagram, or make a donation to make a tax - deductible donation to MomsTeam Institute, a leader in educating sports parents and other youth sports stakeholders about concussions and repetitive head trauma since launching its pioneering Concussion Safety Center in 2001, and challenge their friends to do the same.
Rosemarie Scolaro Moser's new book, Ahead of the Game: The Parent's Guide to Youth Sports Concussion (University Press of New England) is just what it says it is: a practical, no - nonsense guide for parents about sport concussions.
On our anniversary in years past I have blogged about what happened in the previous 12 months in youth sports, but this year the focus will be on youth football.
Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.
MomsTeam Institute, Inc. is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation formed in November 2013 to continue and expand on MomsTEAM's fourteen - year mission of providing comprehensive, well - researched information to youth sports parents, coaches, athletic trainers, and other health care professionals about all aspects of the youth sports experience.
It could be described as a «How we do business, here» attitude, one deeply rooted in the leaders» values and beliefs about what is important to run a successful youth sports program.
As someone who is usually in the position of moderating a discussion of concussions or giving a keynote address at a conference or convention on how to keep young athletes safe, and given the deep knowledge I have on the subject as a result of MomsTEAM's work as the «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, I have to admit I found myself in the somewhat unique position of knowing nearly as much about concussions as some of the presenters.
I write articles for MomsTeam about the worst things that have happened in youth sports, what I call «bad acts.»
«I am excited about the opportunity the Smart Teams Play Safe summit and the SmartTEAM program have given me to work with some of the nation's leading youth sports safety experts in developing and testing a set of best practices.
MomsTEAM: If you could «flip a switch» and change one thing about the culture of youth sports what would it be?
When I look back on this summer I will see in my mind's eye the faces of the hundreds if not thousands of youth and high school football moms and dads who I have been working with, not just from Oklahoma but in just about every state in the nation, to make the sport safer.
If you are involved in a private youth sports program which plays on publicly - owned fields, diamonds, rinks, or courts, or are in local government, you have probably been hearing a lot lately about what is being dubbed the «power of the permit»: the authority municipalities and towns around the country are using to condition use of their athletic facilities by private programs on compliance with state concussion safety laws from which they would otherwise be exempt, or, in an increasing number of instances, to fill gaps in their state's law.
Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.
Many sports injuries are preventable, but continue to occur because of misconceptions about sports safety, uninformed behaviors by parents, coaches, and youth athletes, and a lack of training, says a new survey from Safe Kids Worldwide.1
There is good news and bad news in a first - of - its - kind study about implementation of the nation's first youth sports concussion safety legislation.
Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: SB189 (2011) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic school to provide information to all coaches, officials, volunteers, youth athletes and their parents / guardians about the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after a concussion or head injury.
The culture of youth sports can cloud a parent's judgment to the point that she doesn't want to hear the truth about the seriousness of an injury to their child.
What follows is a cautionary tale that, I am sad to report, highlights so many of the things that need fixing in youth sports; issues I have been writing about (or would banging my head against the wall in frustration be more apt?)
Learn more about the changing the culture of competitive youth sports, as explained by sports expert and educator John O'Sullivan.
Rosemarie Scolaro Moser's book, Ahead of the Game: The Parent's Guide to Youth Sports Concussion (University Press of New England) is just what it says it is: a practical, no - nonsense guide for parents about sport concussions.
This past June I was invited to a press event at the NFL headquarters, where representatives from a group of national governing bodies for team sports talked about their safety initiatives, which showed just how far behind the NFL and its youth football arm, USA Football, had been until recently.
In the fall of 2012, the N.F.L. invited me to its New York City headquarters to present a proposal to the league on ways that I thought MomsTEAM could help them preserve and strengthen the sport of youth football, in part by educating parents, and especially safety - conscious moms, about the dangers of concussions and ways in which the risk of concussion could be reduced.
If parents know about the rule in advance, if the reason for the rule is explained before the season begins, I think that, by and large, they will see it as putting their child's safety first, which is exactly as it should be in youth sports.
As I write about at length in my book and elsewhere on this website, our youth sports culture has become so obsessed with winning that not only has fun taken a back seat, but, more dangerously, safety as well.
Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.
He is best known for advancing dialogue around college and youth sports, with The Nation writing in 2017 that Tom «has done more than any reporter in the country to educate all of us about the professionalization of youth sports.»
He explained to me that he felt many of the consequences of growing up without a father, like not having a dad as his youth sports coach or not having someone to talk to about the issues involved in growing up from boy to man.
Despite all the problems plaguing organized sports there is plenty of good happening too that will be covered; and he'll talk about a renewed sense of hope for the future of these games we love and a new model for thinking about them: youth sport as a human right.
Do you have a question about the 2018 NAYS Youth Sports Congress?
During the sport - specific portion of the NYSCA training program football coaches view the Coaching Youth Football training video, which focuses on how to go about teaching many of the key fundamentals of the game to youngsters.