Through candid interviews of parents, players, the Newcastle High athletic trainer and team doctor, equipment manufacturers, and leading concussion experts, «The Smartest Team» acknowledges the serious challenge concussions pose while showing in easy - to - understand terms how
high school football programs can improve player safety by:
* No requirement that
high school football programs have «adequate» medical insurance for treatment related to concussions, or insurance coverage provided by the high school or state high school association as a last resort for players who need treatment but aren't adequately insured.
An additional complicating factor for
high school football programs is the question of whether a football helmet to which an impact sensor has been affixed violates the rules of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) or of a state high school athletic association.
The Bulldogs were approached by Under Armour to become a part of the company's Undeniable Program, which was launched in 2006 to partner with high - profile
high school football programs to supply uniforms, apparel, shoes, and equipment.
Later this month, FloSports will stream live coverage of USA Football's 7 - on - 7 National Championship Series tournaments, which feature top U.S. high school players, while the streaming service will also stream match - ups between some of the country's top - ranked
high school football programs, starting in late August.
The monstrously sad trial of Steubenville, Ohio's so - called «Rape Crew» begins today, after delays owing to the previous judge's ties to the town's
high school football program.
June 17th Free clinic for the community hosted by Mesa Verde
High School Football Program.
July 15th Free clinic for the community hosted by Mesa Verde
High School Football Program.
How an 18 - year - old with mental disabilities changed
a high school football program in South Carolina.
In a relatively short time, Granite Bay is earning a reputation, like the legendary De La Salle
High School football program in Concord, for sending players to top college programs.
Fortunately, as result of my first - hand experience, working closely the past four football seasons (on many football fields) with six different sensor manufacturers,
the high school football program in Newcastle, and, most recently, the youth football program in Grand Prairie, TX, and from covering the concussion beat, along with a team of experts and staff journalists, for the past fifteen years, I believe MomsTEAM and I are in a unique position to explain just what impact sensors are all about.
Fortunately, as result of my first - hand experience, working closely the past four football seasons (on many football fields) with six different sensor manufacturers,
the high school football program in Newcastle, and, most recently, the
In the case of the Newcastle
High School football program that we featured in The Smartest Team, the athletic trainer had a student assistent monitor the data coming in from the sensors in players» helmets so that he could continue to keep his eyes on the field.
I invite all parents to visit my website to see how your child's league or
high school football program can start better protecting him better against needless injury.
«When the Game Stands Tall» is based on the true story of Concord, California's De La Salle
High School football program, and head coach Bob Ladouceur, who lead the team to the longest winning streak in sports history — 151 games in a row — from 1992 - 2003.
A state lawmaker from Tempe wants a high - school association to investigate the «win - at - any - cost» Saguaro
High School football program after the injury - wracked Tempe High School team forfeited Friday night's game before half time.
Responsible for managing
High School football program, Jr..
• Academic and Athletic Scholarship, Georgia College & State University • Senior Captain, Georgia College & State University Soccer Team • Member of Pi Lambda Theta honor society • Assisted Coach, Greenbrier High School Football Team to the playoffs • Assisted Coach, Hephzibah High's Football Team to its first ever - state playoffs • Head Coached, Hephzibah High's Soccer Team to its first ever - state playoffs • Taught staff development classes in Richmond County • Selected as a «Time to Care» recipient for Channel 12 news channel • Assisted Coach, Burke County
High School Football program to five straight playoffs, three region championships, semi-finals in 2010 and AAA state championship in 2011
Not exact matches
The Bulls, the most perplexing No. 2 of all, did it by beating
higher - ranked
schools that'd had
football programs for about a century longer.
With Folsom now the marquee
football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the
high school level.
Having a very good basketball
program is fine but I believe
schools that emphasize
football and are good at it (which, currently, we definitely are not) have
higher student applications and
higher alumni giving..
Enrollment in
high school and youth
football programs has generally been on the decline for a while.
It appears that Jim Harbaugh isn't just looking at
high schoolers to help better the Michigan
football program.
Today is also the first game day coach Bob Ladouceur — who with a 399 -25-3 record in 34 years of heading the Spartans
program, is arguably the greatest
high school football coach of all time — is NOT the head coach.
The 2016 Honor Bowl
Football Showcase will feature twelve elite high school varsity football programs from the states of Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and northern and southern Cal
Football Showcase will feature twelve elite
high school varsity
football programs from the states of Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and northern and southern Cal
football programs from the states of Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and northern and southern California.
After
high school, where he starred at
football and volleyball, he joined the Life West College rugby
program.
Taylor grew up in Kingsland, a small town in the southern part of Georgia, but after his sophomore year in
high school he moved to Jacksonville to live with relatives and to play in the well - regarded football program at Ribault H
high school he moved to Jacksonville to live with relatives and to play in the well - regarded
football program at Ribault
HighHigh.
Value of the contracts signed by the nine Alabama players taken in this year's NFL draft, according to a recruiting leaflet mailed to
high school prospects by the Crimson Tide's
football program.
Since the fall of 2000 he has been working at Jefferson Senior
High in the Denver suburb of Edgewater as an academic coach in the National Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to football players in at - risk high scho
High in the Denver suburb of Edgewater as an academic coach in the National
Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to football players in at - risk high
Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart
program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to
football players in at - risk high
football players in at - risk
high scho
high schools.
We understand that youth
football is the foundation that
high school and
higher level
programs are built upon.
By funding a spring
football program, the Broncos are being credited with helping to keep
high school football alive across the Denver Public School system, The Denver Post exp
school football alive across the Denver Public
School system, The Denver Post exp
School system, The Denver Post explains.
Recently, I had that opportunity when I heard John «JK» Parker speak to a
high school football team in Oklahoma with which MomsTEAM is working to develop a concussion management
program.
«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 a
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 a
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.
Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making
High School Football Safer», the
program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.
«THE SMARTEST TEAM» begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in
football but offering youth and
high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six Pillars» of a comprehensive concussion risk management
program:
First featured in the Institute's long - running PBS documentary, The Smartest Team: Making
High School Football Safer, the Six Pillars ®
program, is designed to reduce the risk of concussions and long - term injury from repetitive head impacts while minimizing the effects of concussion in young female and male athletes.
The Professional
Football Athletic Trainers Society has partnered with USA Football to advance youth and high school football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
Football Athletic Trainers Society has partnered with USA
Football to advance youth and high school football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
Football to advance youth and
high school football player safety by endorsing USA Football's Heads Up football
football player safety by endorsing USA
Football's Heads Up football
Football's Heads Up
football football program.
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).
November 4, 2011 — As the
high school football season heads into the playoff stretch and upcoming winter sports season begins The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers» Society (PATS), announced today that it has partnered with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education
program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care professionals.
August 4, 2011 — As the
high school football season gets underway this week in Florida, the Athletic Trainers» Association of Florida (ATAF) announced today it has forged a relationship with Sport Safety International; a medical consulting firm that specializes in providing expert advice in the area of sport safety and injury prevention, to help introduce «Concussion Wise ™» an online concussion education
program designed for athletic trainers, coaches, parents, athletes and other health care professionals.
Coach Cheshire is the head varsity
football coach at Concordia
High School in Austin; he started the
program in 2014.
NATA staff and several athletic training industry experts worked with PBS on a
program about
high school football that aired Tuesday.
It includes the work of youth sports expert and author Brooke de Lench (who lives in Concord) as she tries to reduce the concussion rate in a
football program at an Oklahoma
high school.
They were designed to allow flexibility for state associations that collectively oversee the more than 15,000
high schools across the country that have
football programs.
To be eligible,
high -
school football programs in Indiana must commit to enhancing player health and safety through Heads Up Football certif
football programs in Indiana must commit to enhancing player health and safety through Heads Up
Football certif
Football certification.
HELMETs encourages and motivates Indiana
high -
school football programs to strengthen their commitment to player health and safety by enrolling in USA Football's Heads Up Football program — endorsed by leading medical associations and the NFL — to advance coaching education and student - athlete
football programs to strengthen their commitment to player health and safety by enrolling in USA
Football's Heads Up Football program — endorsed by leading medical associations and the NFL — to advance coaching education and student - athlete
Football's Heads Up
Football program — endorsed by leading medical associations and the NFL — to advance coaching education and student - athlete
Football program — endorsed by leading medical associations and the NFL — to advance coaching education and student - athlete safety.
Heads Up
Football is an important football safety program, and it is having a positive effect on youth organizations and high school programs nat
Football is an important
football safety program, and it is having a positive effect on youth organizations and high school programs nat
football safety
program, and it is having a positive effect on youth organizations and
high school programs nationwide.
Village Trustee Thomas Glasgow said he remembers watching Garoppolo play over the years, from his days in the Arlington Cowboys Youth
Football program to leading the Rolling Meadows High School football team and then breaking records in
Football program to leading the Rolling Meadows
High School football team and then breaking records in
football team and then breaking records in college.
The Smartest Team begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in
football but offering youth and
high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six PillarsTM» of a comprehensive concussion risk management
program:
«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 t
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 t
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.