Sentences with phrase «athletes safe play»

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Travis Tygart, president of the USADA, said in a statement, «This is a heartbreaking example of how the win - at - all - costs culture of sport, if left unchecked, will overtake fair, safe and honest competition, but for clean athletes, it is a reassuring reminder that there is hope for future generations to compete on a level playing field without the use of performance - enhancing drugs»...

«We are committed to fostering a game that is welcoming and inclusive to all who choose to play it, and ensuring our championships are conducted without discrimination and in a safe and secure manner for athletes, volunteers, staff and fans.

In fact, given a year to track one form I think it's safe to say that people of less than stellar intellectual and organizational ability could track one preparticipation physical exam form, check to see if the right kind of medical professional cleared an athlete to play, monitor the date that the form becomes invalid, and give the athlete advance notice of the expiration date so the athlete can take their physical exam for the next year.

«THE SMARTEST TEAM: Making High School Football Safer», an hour - long documentary designed to help football programs and athletes play safer and smarter, which had its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) in August, will air in the New England area on WGBH - TV on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 3 p.m.

«Given that concussions are difficult to diagnose and often require either athlete reports or parental concerns to come to the attention of the coach,» they said, «educating athletes and their parents about the risks of a concussion and safe management is an essential part of preventing athletes from playing with concussive symptoms.»

Electrolytes like sodium in a sports drink help maintain the stimulus to drink (thirst) and help complete hydration4, 5 - a major factor in keeping athletes safe on the playing field.

Some of the same studies suggest that athletes may be more likely to self - report if they feel safe in self - reporting, in other words, when they don't fear adverse repercussions if they report in terms of decreased playing time, losing their starting positions, or being embarrassed by the coach in front of their teammates for their lack of toughness, such as, for example, by being labeled a «wimp» (or worse).

It is up to parents to do whatever they can to make sure that their child's coach does not continue to convey the message to athletes that there will be negative consequences to concussion reporting by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring that reporting concussive symptoms made them «weak», but, instead, creates an environment in which athletes feel safe in honestly self - reporting experiencing concussion symptoms or reporting that a teammate is displaying signs of concussion (and reinforcing that message at home)

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

There are three important things parents and coaches can do to help young athletes return to play in a safe, efficient, and productive manner:

«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.

Then word appeared to get out so that these student - athletes were bullied and cyber-bullied by peers as if their request to play in a healthy and safe environment was wrong or shameful.

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 smPlay 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 smSafe 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 smplay safe by being smsafe by being smart.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

The current international consensus of experts (Zurich consensus statement), [1] views computerized neuropsychological or neurocognitive (NP) testing as having clincal value in evaluation for concussion and as an aid in determining when it is safe for an athlete to return to play after a concussion, and recommends formal baseline NP screening of athletes in all organized sports in which there is a high risk of concussion (e.g. football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, basketball), regardless of the age or level of performance.

Young athletes deserve to play sports in a culture that celebrates their hard work, dedication, and teamwork, and in programs that seek to create a safe environment — especially when it comes to concussion.

January 28, 2015 (Chicago, IL)-- Head Case, the Chicago - based creators behind Head Case, an affordable three - part concussion management system designed to keep youth athletes safer during play, has appointed A.J. Cederoth as CFO.

«Armed with the correct information and tools, today's young athletes can remain healthy, play safe, and stay in the game for life.»

«THE SMARTEST TEAM: Making High School Football Safer,» an hour - long documentary designed to help football programs and athletes play safer and smarter, will have its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 10 p.m. and August 20th at 5:00 a.m. CDT and will roll out to all other PBS stations throughout the fall.

Located at Veteran's Park on Grand Island, Miracle League provides a safe place for athletes of all capabilities to play baseball.

Using the checklist, Kevin B. Freedman, MD, an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine at the Rothman Institute and Thomas Jefferson University, and his team compared clinical outcomes to determine when it was safe for athletes to return to play following primary ACL reconstruction.

Provided rehabilitation treatment and monitored the progression athletes to ensure a full and safe return to play

Their resumes reflect such skills as maintaining a healthy and safe environment for athletes, coaching soccer with the focus of improving skills and socialization, refereeing games to ensure fair play, and creating practice schedules and team meetings.