Sentences with phrase «female soccer player»

This means that the training program for a female soccer player shouldn't be that much different from a male baseball player.

$ 1,200 Cost to Kent State to print new fall sports calendars for the Golden Flashes after a student noticed that a photo in the original calendar inadvertently revealed a female soccer player's private parts.

I just interviewed Abby Wambach, who is the highest goal - scoring female soccer player in history — when she was five years old, she scored 27 goals in her first three games.

Are the powers - that - be saying that the development of female soccer players in the U.S. is on the right track and no changes need to be made, even though the majority of the players on last year's Women's World Cup runner - up U. S. Women's National Team (USWMT) played on their high school teams?

Female soccer players playing elite or select soccer before high school sustained concussions at a rate higher than their high school and college counterparts, most continued to play despite experiencing symptoms, and less than half sought medical attention, a first - of - its - kind study finds.

A 2005 study of elite 14 - to 18 - year - old female soccer players, for instance, reported that ACL injuries went down 83 % for girls on teams which used the PEP exercise program compared to girls on teams that did not; in the second year, the reduction in ACL injuries was 72 %.

As the world was watching the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday, three former Olympic gold medalists and Tar Heel soccer stars — Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and Tisha Venturini Hoch — were on a hot soccer field in Raleigh, inspiring young female soccer players to be their best.

Thirty - six teenage female soccer players who play at a competitive level from three soccer clubs in Frankfurt participated in the study.

Subjecting female soccer players to a negative stereotype about their abilities reduced their dribbling speed significantly, according to a new study published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise.

To find out, they recruited female soccer players and male football players from 20 universities across the United States.

Even female soccer players should be training grip.

Not exact matches

This all - female premier soccer tournament is open to players ages 10 to 19 and will showcase teams from Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Alaska and California.

Mo Isom, LSU soccer star and homecoming queen, could become the SEC's first female football player.

They are acutely aware of their popularity — Hamm is by far the most recognizable American soccer player, male or female, according to a recent federation survey — and they have shrewdly leveraged that fame over the years, winning concessions from U.S. Soccer on several issues: the right of each player to choose which brand of shoe to wear; per - game salaries that equal those of the men's team; and clearance to stage a lucrative post-World Cup indoor tour in»99 using their own promoter.

In one study of female collegiate soccer players, non-contact ACL injuries were reduced by nearly half among players who followed a warm - up program that included both dynamic stretching exercises and static stretching.

The study's authors offered several possible explanations for the concussion rate in female middle school soccer players four times higher than in the most recent study of female high school soccer players.

Although each of the teams using the PEP exercise program had a dedicated athletic training staff, the success reported in the earlier study in reducing ACL injuries among 14 - to 18 - year - old competitive female club soccer players - who ordinarily do not benefit from direct oversight from certified athletic trainers (ATCs) or physical therapists - suggest that the program may benefit other age groups and levels of play where direct oversight by medical professionals is far less common.

So that generic strong kicking becomes the male soccer player and the female a ballerina as opposed to simply a strong, healthy baby.

According to statistics kept by the Centers for Disease Control, in 2007, girls» soccer players reported 29,167 concussions, second only to football players.And, a study published in the Jan. 2011 edition of theJournal of Athletic Training said female athletes experience more physical long - term symptoms than male athletes.

Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, the team physician for U.S. Soccer national teams, has been a pioneer in researching ACL injury trends among female athletes and creating injury prevention methods for soccer players.

While football players are considered to be the most at risk, females are gaining ground in every sport from soccer and volleyball to basketball and cheerleading.

«Traditionally, there haven't been so many older female players in English, Faroese or Danish soccer clubs, but the relatively new Danish initiative of soccer Fitness has really caught on with women,» says sports sociologist Laila Ottesen, currently engaged in an extensive study of the soccer Fitness concept, which was started in 2011 by the Danish soccer Association and the Danish Sports Confederation.

The results in his thesis show that improved motor timing of both female elite level soccer players and experienced male golfers leads to improved outcome accuracy, with associated changes in motor performance, as well as in the brain's activity patterns related to these performances.

She'll be the face of UA's new «I Will What I Want» campaign, along with more famous female athletes: Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn, tennis player Sloane Stephens and soccer star Kelley O'Hara.

In a recent study, Niinimäki et al. (2015) performed MRI scans of the upper gluteus maximus in five different groups of athletic females, as follows: high impact sports (volleyball players and high - jumpers), odd impact sports (soccer and squash players), high force sports (powerlifters), repetitive impact sports (endurance runners) and repetitive non-impact sports (swimmers).

Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid covered wall.