Sentences with phrase «athlete as a youth»

A solid all - around athlete as a youth, he tried nearly every team sport, including baseball, basketball and soccer, before focusing solely on individual competition on the wrestling mat.

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His athletic playing and coaching experience includes: Coached BAVC boys and girls club teams including 18s (boys and girls), 16s (boys and girls), 15s (girls), and 13s (girls) Current De La Salle Junior Varsity Coach Former Clayton Valley High Girls Varsity Head and Assistant Coach Former Las Lomas High Varsity Assistant Coach Former St. Francis CYO and Walnut Creek Youth Basketball Coach Former AA Rated Sand & Grass Doubles Division I Football and Basketball Player (University of Maine) All - State High School Football Player (Maine) Rich brings a broad perspective on youth athletics as a club director, coach, high school and college athlete, and a father of a high school and college athYouth Basketball Coach Former AA Rated Sand & Grass Doubles Division I Football and Basketball Player (University of Maine) All - State High School Football Player (Maine) Rich brings a broad perspective on youth athletics as a club director, coach, high school and college athlete, and a father of a high school and college athyouth athletics as a club director, coach, high school and college athlete, and a father of a high school and college athlete.

As a youth growing up in Canoga Park, Calif., the son of an Italian - American father and an Irish - French mother, Tim Foli was such a talented athlete that by the time he graduated from high school he was offered both football and baseball scholarships to the University of Southern California and Notre Dame and a $ 75,000 baseball bonus by the Mets, who had made him their first choice in the 1968 free - agent draft.

It doesn't look all that different from any other grouping of youth ball fields, but, true to Haley's original vision, the park serves as an urban oasis for young athletes.

He has youth on his side, but let's be honest - he's an athlete who is masquerading as a footballer.

As a Youth Conditioning, Speed / Agility and Nutrition Specialist with the International Youth Conditioning Association, Fit -2-The-Core Training Systems offers an innovative approach to getting your young athletes back on the field of play post-rehabilitation (which get your athletes to normal functioning), continuing the process by progressing their bodies to handle what they must endure on the field or court.

CSP offers programs for youth as well as high school athletes.

As a mental toughness trainer who has worked with thousands of athletes, youth and adult, by far the biggest problem is fear of failure.

As youth sports become increasingly more complex and competitive, parents are tasked with nurturing, teaching, motivating and training their athletes.

Currently, as Director of Player Development for the NFA, Hewlett is involved with conducting more than 70 youth development camps annually for youth and high school athletes.

As a Youth Conditioning, Speed / Agility and Nutrition Specialist with the IYCA, Fit 2 The Core Training Systems Boot Camps offer an innovative approach to getting young athletes back on the field post-rehabilitation, and continuing the process by progressing their bodies to handle what they must endure on the field or court.

First up on Sunday, Dec. 27 is the youth wrestlers featuring athletes as young as five - years - old up to middle school ages.

Her father, Donald, a foreman at the local Ford plant, had been something of an athlete when he was a youth in Edinburgh, Scotland, and he had taught Ernie a few acrobatic tricks, such as cartwheels and handstands.

The sum has been donated to the German Sports Aid Foundation (Deutsche Sporthilfe), which supports around 4,000 youth and elite athletes in as many as 50 disciplines.

In 2012, in recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

Producer of: The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer (PBS) and author of: Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (Harper Collins) is well known as the «Mother of Youth Sports Safety» for her tireless advocacy and solutions based work in safeguarding young athletes.

«As an independent youth sports safety organization and a leader in educating coaches, parents, athletes and health care providers for the last seventeen years, MomsTEAM Institute greatly appreciates that NATA, in its best health and sports safety guidelines, has largely validated what we have been saying for many years,» said MTI Executive Director, Brooke de Lench.

A month ago, a couple of weeks after posting an article about Caitlin's long road to recovery, with the help and support of her mom, Barbara, from post-concussion syndrome, and after Caitlin came out as gay, I asked her whether she would help MomsTEAM develop out the section of our site on parenting LGBT youth athletes.

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 presenterAs 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 presenteras 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 presenteras 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 presenteras much about concussions as some of the presenteras some of the presenters.

Two years ago, in recognition of April as Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

As a mom, I understand the concerns of a parent and am tuned in to the misconceptions many parents have when it comes to what youth athletes need to perform their best.

The bill is based on a bill of rights created by the Youth Sports Safety Alliance, an organization committed to keeping young athletes safe founded by the National Athletic Trainers» Association which now counts more than 100 organizations (including MomsTEAM) as members.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.

Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.

The policy requires that a youth athlete's parent or guardian must annually sign and return a form documenting the receipt of educational materials as described in the policy.

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog a couple of years back answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts to write a blog a couple of years back answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts two years ago to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts two years ago to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam is again asking our friends in the health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

Producer of: The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer (PBS) and is well known as the «Mother of Youth Sports Safety» for her tireless advocacy and solutions based work in safeguarding young athletes.

In fact, research in the area of youth sports and supplements, such as amino acids and creatine, is limited; the American Academy of Pediatrics advises no ergogenic (muscle - building, performance - enhancing) supplements for youth athletes due to their unknown side effects.

In recognition of April as Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts in 2012 to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how they have made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked 30 experts in 2012 to write a blog answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how they have made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

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.

Today many youth athletes play on what are known as select teams or travel teams.

As youth sports parents it's important to guide and encourage young athletes and let them enjoy that special experience of being part of a team — no matter what their contribution.

«This program teaches and enhances the skills and education of athletes through a positive, fun and safe environment so our youth not only develop into successful athletes on the playing field but in life as well,» says Verdell.

Teaching youth athletes personal accountability for their actions on and off the field is important, but finding the right time to impart that life lesson can be tricky, as I recently found out.

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 recommend).

While I will not be able to participate in the roundtable, it is probably just as well because, with MomsTEAM Institute's SmartTeams Play Safe summit in Boston in my rear view mirror, I am devoting all my energies the rest of the fall sports season to working with an incredibly talented and dedicated group of certified athletic trainers at the grass roots level on our SmartTeamTM pilot program, which is helping parents, coaches, administrators, and more than 800 athletes in youth football programs in six states play safe by being smart.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

In recognition of April as National Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past Youth Sports Safety Month, MomsTeam asked our friends in the medical, health, fitness, nutrition and athletic training communities to write blogs answering two questions: first, how or why did they get into their field, and second, how have they made a difference in the life of a youth athlete in the past youth athlete in the past year.

I may not have always succeeded as a youth athlete in doing that, but it is clear to me that my parents» values formed a solid foundation for my early life choices and experiences.

It's clear that youth sport coaches play one of the most central roles in the development of youth as athletes and people.

Each adult stakeholder — whether a parent, coach, or sport or school administrator — has the obligation to give each participating youth the opportunity and support to excel as an athlete and person at his or her own levels of athletic and sport readiness, development and desired context of participation and success.

Together, Youth Sports of the Americas and the LakePoint Sporting Community will provide a positive and healthy environment for all kids to enjoy sports — to have fun, learn sports skills and rules of the game, compete and develop as capable and confident young athletes at any level of athletic success.

While sports specialization is recognized as one of the main concerns in youth sports today, and is linked to overuse injuries and sports burnout for young athletes, it remains a prevalent route for parents and athletes looking for an advantage to earn a college scholarship or to even make it to the pros.

As a lifelong athlete with a career in physical education and youth sports administration, Fred Engh had first - hand experience with parents and coaches who placed their own desires to win over the safety and well - being of children.

NYSHSI further urges all youth sports stakeholders to provide a positive and healthy environment for our kids to enjoy sports — that is, have fun, learn sports skills and the rules of the game, and develop as capable and confident young athletes at any level of athletic success in a way that will help them to be good citizens of the game and community, healthy and fit, and performing well in all domains of life.

As a Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon, I've been treating sports - related injuries in youth athletes for my entire career.

Every day brings new challenges for youth sports administrators, as countless issues can surface at any time that affect young athletes» experiences.