Sentences with phrase «competing as an athlete»

I would challenge you to consider he is also intillectualy cognitive enough to decipher between competing as an athlete, and coaching / managing.

Like the Canadian study, the attitude study by researchers at WakeMed Health and Hospitals, Raleigh, NC, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona found that «the motivations and aspirations of coaches, parents, and teammates often compete as athletes value each of these groups» opinions.»

Not exact matches

The U.S. men's team has some strong medal hopes, but most Olympics watchers have been paying more attention to Adam Rippon, as he is the first openly gay American athlete to qualify to compete at the Winter Olympics.

North and South Korean athletes will march under a single Korean flag during the opening ceremony, while Korea's female hockey players will compete for gold as a unified team.

«If you're a Paralympian in an ad, it's likely that the deal was structured in the very same as for the Olympic athlete you saw compete in Sochi a couple of weeks ago,» said Peter Carlisle, managing director for Octagon Sports, whose stable of athletes it represents includes Paralympians.

As an athlete I learn from watching other great athletes compete.

At UNC — much as athletes need a minimum GPA to remain eligible to compete — each Greek house needs to achieve a minimum average GPA among its members to maintain university recognition and stay on campus.

Other athletes have come out as part of the LGBTQ community after their Olympic careers, but this is first time that American athletes who are competing in the winter games are openly gay.

With KPMG stepping up and paying Lewis in full, it could encourage her other sponsors to follow suit, and hopefully lead to it becoming standard practice across the sport of golf, as well as other sports where athletes compete as individual contractors, such as tennis.

I'm a serious athlete, and I've counted on LLL to make me feel great and look good while I'm competing or training, and I've been having a really hard time finding fitness apparel that is as good as LLL.

St. Paul, who perhaps saw dust fly as athletes competed in the arena, described the Christian life as a race to be run.

And either he would have beat her and reaffirmed his manliness, or she would have beaten him and he may have realized that if a girl athlete is as good as the boy athletes, she should be able to compete against boys.

As an athlete, it is simply difficult for a man to compete 100 % against a woman.

All this is backed up in the Holy Quran (Surat Al - Baqarah 2:183 - 185) These athletes fall under the category of «travellers» as their intention is to compete and go back home.

The goal of the All American Sports Academy is to train and educate all student athletes on the correct physical skills and mechanics needed to compete at all levels, as well as understand the proper practice habits and time management skills needed to improve their game.

• After a dismal fling at professional boxing, Shotputter Bill Nieder has applied to the AAU for reinstatement as an amateur athlete and hopes to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.

African - Americans and physically disabled athletes have the same desire to compete as other humans, and if their abilities are up to par, there's no reason they shouldn't have the opportunity to play at their sport's highest levels.

The clear implication is that there is something inherently undignified about an athlete competing in a sport that has been his lifelong preoccupation, simply because he is not playing as well as he did in his younger days.

Trap shooting is doing so both figuratively and literally as student - athletes are increasingly hitting the range at local shooting clubs to hone their craft and compete against students of rival high schools.

I concede that is nearly impossible to financially compete with billionaire playboys such as Roman A, but looking @ there current squad compared to Arsenal I see one transparent, glaring difference: ATHLETES!!!

The Gil Basketball Academy was formed to promote the sport of basketball in East Salinas, as well as the overall development of local student - athletes desiring to compete at the highest athletic levels of competition.

There's no way our players weren't affected by the embarrassment, and as professional athletes these guys possess a will to compete and win and get better all the time, so hopefully those losses will spur (not spud) us on to greatness this season.

We also attend Student Windsurf Association (SWA) events such as Aussie Kiss and Nationals, which provide opportunities to meet fellow windsurfers and compete with some of the best student athletes in the country.

«In cycling, the Olympics does not rank highly, it is not a prestigious event, but as a Great Britain athlete to compete for the flag I was born under, is a big thing,» he said.

He loves competition, competes in the Games qualifying events, and qualifying for the CrossFit Games as a Masters athlete in 2011 and 2013.

A.J. Mleczko, 1998 U.S. women's Olympic hockey team member: «As athletes we train and we compete, and nothing they do should be able to take away the spirit of the Olympics.

Sitting on a fence as the rally neared its end, Ibtihaj Muhammad — an Olympic fencer who was the first American to compete in the games wearing a hijab — spoke about the role of athletes at this moment of immense protest.

The Laura Nordic venue features dedicated courses and stadiums for both cross-country and biathlon, as well as its own satellite Endurance Village, so Nordic athletes can live at the same elevation at which they'll compete.

As I transitioned to coaching track athletes after my competing days (before I started my surgical training), I felt there had to be a better explanation than a muscle «strain» for the varying degrees of hip pain my athletes were experiencing.

The Unified races will be one of the many highpoints of Bay Area Games as more than 500 Special Olympics Northern California special education student - athletes compete in track & field events on Tuesday at Acalanes High School in Lafayette.

Some top pole vault and long jump athletes will compete as the specially designed «FlySwat» — a mobile athletics facility — brings spectators right up close to the action.

Three athletes have been named in some events and a third athlete may be eligible to compete as a wild card pending the conclusion of the IAAF World Indoor Tour.

Triple jumper Phillips Idowu and national javelin record - holder Goldie Sayers had both been touted as genuine medal hopes, but despite trying to compete through the pain, both athletes saw their Olympic dreams end in the qualifying round of their respective events.

I hope British athletes competing at the games this summer will take notice of this snub as an indication of how their efforts will be recognized in future.

Parents need to know, as they watch their kids compete, that the event organizer is taking appropriate steps to prevent injuries, and that sufficient qualified medical personnel are at the event to provide first - aid in the event of minor injuries and transport more seriously injured athletes to the nearest hospital emergency room.

The problem, as Paul S. Echlin, M.D. of the Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and author of the Canadian study, points out, is that the «young athlete is often caught between competing demands of the adults around them» and «sometimes make decisions based on the adult whom they perceive to have the most influence on their success, and also whom they wish most to please for a variety of reasons.»

Drinking may help maintain the link to sports and identity as an athlete for those that simply can no longer compete.

Whether they play on the same team, compete as opponents or play different sports, each child will seek their parents» attention and want to be recognized as the better athlete.

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.

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

Two Indian athletes attempting to travel to the United States to compete in the World Snowshoe Championships in Saranac Lake were denied visas as a result of Trump's ban.

Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics as neutrals despite orchestrated doping at the 2014 Sochi Games, the International Olympic Committee said.

Each day, these athletes inspire each of us to overcome obstacles and challenges, and next month we'll cheer for them as they strive to achieve — whether that means winning a medal, simply competing, or making new friends.

His baffling case serves as a reminder that four years after South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius propelled himself into history as the first amputee Olympic athlete to compete using blade prostheses, the technology's impact on performance remains unclear despite ongoing research.

«But what we found was our athletes with ADHD were twice as likely to compete in team sports, and their rate of participation in contact sports, like football, hockey and lacrosse, was 142 percent higher.»

Elderly athletes with a lifelong history of training and competing in endurance events like marathons, triathlons and iron man challenges can have heart rhythm disturbances, known as arrhythmias.

This can put some countries at a competitive advantage as they benefit from a wider athlete pool that's been able to train and compete using compound bows.

Individual athletes should compete on at least national championship level and / or in national teams to be defined as top - level athletes.

The series follows the student athletes as they train and compete against various college and city teams around the U.S..

There are few athletes who enjoy training and competing as much as Ironman champion and 60 - time ironman - finisher Hillary Biscay.