Sentences with phrase «as youth sports leagues»

He wants to help the charitable groups reverse the slump in revenues that has eaten into their support of local activities, such as youth sports leagues, scholarship funds or veterans programs.

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The company wants its owners to participate in local chambers of commerce and support organizations such as little league and other youth sports.

Beyond Walnut Creek Recreation's sports and fitness classes, various organizations such as Walnut Creek Soccer Club, Walnut Creek Youth Athletic Association (flag football, basketball, t - ball, baseball, softball, summer soccer), Walnut Creek Little League, and Adult Softball operate sports leagues throughout the City.

With youth sports organizations now offering leagues for 4 - and 5 - year - olds, travel teams for 9 - year - olds, and options for year - round involvement, some families find sports to be «too much of a good thing» and struggle to find a balance as they encounter the «earlier is better» and «more is better» mindset.

Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

But I challenge you to think what you can do, as a youth sports leader, volunteer or parent, to call attention to sportsmanship within your league.

Changes the league will implement for the 2015 season by using NAYS programs and resources include requiring all volunteer coaches to complete training through the National Youth Sports Coaches Association (NYSCA), as well as the NAYS bullying and concussion prevention trainings.

I think it is time for the NFL, as the professional league in the sport which experiences the largest number of concussions by far, to demonstrate in a tangible way its commitment to concussion safety and education, both for its players, for the players at the youth level who emulate them, and the parents whose job it is to keep them safe.

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).

The puzzling absence of women coaches in youth sports, as Scott Lancaster, the director of the National Football League's youth football program, noted in his book, Fair Play: Making Organized Sports a Great Experience for Your Kid, is «clearly one of the most backward traditions in sports today.&sports, as Scott Lancaster, the director of the National Football League's youth football program, noted in his book, Fair Play: Making Organized Sports a Great Experience for Your Kid, is «clearly one of the most backward traditions in sports today.&Sports a Great Experience for Your Kid, is «clearly one of the most backward traditions in sports today.&sports today.»

General Liability: NAYS League Directors also receive Commercial General Liability, which covers NAYS League Directors while acting in their capacity as administrators in youth sports activities if they become legally obligated to pay for claims arising out of bodily injury, property damage and personal injury.

Under this policy members are covered while acting in their capacity as administrators in youth sports activities if they become legally obligated to pay for claims arising out of wrongful acts in the running of the league or team, employment practices, person injury or publishers liability.

The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy and Field & Stream specialty stores, as well as Dick's Team Sports HQ, an «all - in - one» youth sports digital platform offering free league management services, it Sports HQ, an «all - in - one» youth sports digital platform offering free league management services, it sports digital platform offering free league management services, it added.

As a result, sports leagues from the NFL to a variety of youth sports have changed the manner in which they deal with concussions.

As an individual volunteer, you can work in our partner schools helping facilitate recess games, sports leagues, youth leadership programs, or special events.

Dr. Chafetz has been active in youth sports in Vienna, serving on boards in Little League, Babe Ruth, and the Vienna Baseball foundation, as well as coaching baseball, basketball and lacrosse.

Is there a strong rationale for such programs as family therapies, recreation and midnight sports leagues and school - based conflict resolution to prevent or decrease delinquent behavior by youth?