Sentences with phrase «level as an athlete»

I've studied, speak foreign languages, travelled, worked in diplomacy, taught at a university, worked abroad, competed at the national and international level as an athlete, have a great family and friends, etc., Thank you for your deep and constructive comments.

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«I truly love football and it's such an immense blessing and privilege as an athlete to be given the rare opportunity to use those talents at the highest professional level, but it's certainly not a replacement for an education.»

As an amateur athlete and the father of a two year old, I am delighted by these reductions on a personal level as welAs an amateur athlete and the father of a two year old, I am delighted by these reductions on a personal level as welas well.

Caster Semenya will bid to move the spotlight from new IAAF rules for female athletes who have high testosterone levels firmly back to the track as the Diamond League gets under way in Doha on Friday.

I have read a lot about how a keto diet could be beneficial for endurance athletes like me who race long - distance triathlons (Olympic and Half - Ironman distances), and I have already experienced this during my training sessions over this past couple of weeks, as I started doing some fasting and training in a fasted state: my energy levels are just never - ending, I can bike or run for hours, and there is no «hitting the wall» feeling anymore!

Viramontes, who could play multiple positions at the next level QB / RB / LB, is ranked as the No. 48 athlete in the 2016 class.

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.

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.

Carlen's athletes spend most of their time in their dorm, which is as good a place as any, considering that Carlen is a tough disciplinarian and Morgantown, the site of the university, doesn't have a level street to walk on.

For reasons that are difficult to perceive, someone had decided that this sorry spectacle would make a great human - interest scene for the film as Arthur, the famous, rich black American athlete, nobly descends to the lower levels of life and plays table tennis with poor little African children.

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.

As we enter the new sports season, the pressure and stress on athletes become enormous, and parents hold the key to their child's stress levels and more importantly overall performance levels.

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.

This is the highest level international competition for this age group, and more than 200 athletes from twenty - six countries including many top ranked synchronized swimming ones such as Russia, Spain, Italy, Greece, Canada, Japan and France participated.

Let me put it this way, I'm not saying being a cheerleader is unskilled or easy work, but if the skill level was the same to be a professional athlete as a cheerleader you'd have guys lining up to be one for peanuts as well even if just for the attention.

You have people who are fighting on the TV for the» best promotion in the world» but they are struggling to pay their basic bills and some don't even have a place to sleep sometimes... but just because this is on TV and you hear all these high figures, you think these fighters are such high level athletes in all fronts... well, thats just not the case simple as that lol

The International Olympic Committee, which is trying to effacer its own image as a cynical kleptocracy, is airing a silent television commercial in Africa, Asia and Europe to remind people what the Games are supposed to be about: athletes performing at the highest level.

The camera then focuses in on the athletes as they find out their results — after switching from meat - based to plant - based, their arousement levels jump by 300 - 400 %, causing each of them to put their hands over their faces and laugh uncontrollably, while one of them shouts, «Bro!

So if participation in high school sports is good for students, at a certain level it makes sense that as many students as possible should get that opportunity — but if the same group of athletes hogs three sports» worth of spots, then opportunities are lost for others.

This support structure must grow as the level of the athlete grows.

As the athlete continues to go up each competitive level, the more solid the foundation must be in resisting the toppling of the Elite Performer Pyramid «'' a wide base of training, nutrition, mindset, drive AND positive environment must support it.

As a former player under Porter and a Division - I scholarship athlete, the coach commands attention and respect as someone familiar with the program's prominence as well as what it takes to make it to the next leveAs a former player under Porter and a Division - I scholarship athlete, the coach commands attention and respect as someone familiar with the program's prominence as well as what it takes to make it to the next leveas someone familiar with the program's prominence as well as what it takes to make it to the next leveas well as what it takes to make it to the next leveas what it takes to make it to the next level.

Seattle: Derwin James, S, Florida State James is an incredible athlete and tough as nails, but he didn't come back from his 2016 knee injury at the level he played at as a freshman.

Yes, swimming at the highest levels is an individual sport, and as athletes start to separate themselves from the pack, it makes complete sense to swim the events that a) you enjoy the most (because in the long run you'll most likely do better at them), and b) suit your skills — but in case you haven't noticed, you're in high school.

It seems reasonable to suggest that rather than simply maintaining a high work rate until the RPE does rise to reach near - maximal levels, the exercising athlete would instead reduce the work rate under conditions of elevated body temperature8 — 10 or depleted muscle glycogen concentrations, 13 giving rise to the possibility that the regulation of self - paced exercise may utilise the RPE as an important mediator of pacing strategy.

This new partnership reflects the long tradition of cooperation between Puressentiel and the Team Puressentiel ®, bringing together top - level athletes and performers in a variety of disciplines: basketball, surfing, dance, boxing, swimming as well as the Paris Saint - Germain football club and the High Mountain Guide teams from Méribel and Courchevel.

The recent preventable deaths of two young football players (as well as several others in the recent past) should serve as a tragic reminder that medical personnel, professional societies and industry must strive harder to connect in order to translate evolving scientific recommendations and guidelines down to the ground level: the athletes.

«I am biased, as physical therapy is my profession,» he acknowledged, «but because the goal [for athletes] is to return to high - level competition, not just simply walking or doing daily chores, care is necessary to ensure that all functional goals are met.»

The survey also found that eight in ten support a requirement that an athlete be evaluated and cleared by a doctor before being allowed to return to play sports after suffering a concussion (as is now required by law, at least at the high school level, in virtually every state).

In fact, those who were fans and / or former athletes reported about the same level of drinking and related harms as current athletes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Notably, unlike Virginia's law, the policy expressly empowers game officials to remove athletes from play if they are suspected of having suffered a concussion (a power that I have been advocating for many years game officials be given, and a power conferred on game officials by laws at the state level in only Arizona, Iowa, and Ohio), and requires that coaches who disregard the safety and well being of a youth sports participant as it related to concussions be subject to indefinite suspension (only Pennsylvania and Connecticut have laws which penalize coaches for violating their statutes)

At the college level, one in ten young female athletes participating in sports such as soccer, volleyball, and -LSB-...]

As part of its commitment to improve athlete health and safety at all levels of sport, the NFL Foundation has launched a pilot grant program to increase the number of high school football players with access to an athletic trainer.

At times White has done the work for the U.S. team for no charge, but he keeps his lab going with funding from other projects, such as a study he did for an elliptical bike maker to examine whether the product maintained fitness in high - level athletes, working with collegiate teams, and donations from former rowers.

He stresses that good communication skills are also essential:» [You have to be able to exchange] information at a very scientific level, as well as translate it into understandable information for the athletes.»

Parker encourages you to try and gain as much insight in the world of sport and possible science jobs as you can before and during your studies: «Go to the sports, talk to professional sports associations, athletes, coaches, sports scientists about what it is really like; it doesn't matter at which level.»

«So long as [baseline] exposure levels were established in the athlete prior to retest, and the DEHP levels were significantly elevated upon retest, it would be difficult for this to be from any normal exposure,» Neese said.

Professional athletes monitor lactate levels to evaluate their training programs, and doctors look out for abnormally high lactate levels in patients as a sign of heart or lung disease.

The Saarbrücken scientists were able to confirm that the hearts of these athletes, who have been engaged in elite level endurance activities for many years, were, as expected, significantly larger and stronger than those of members of the control group.

New research suggests a student athlete's anxiety levels before competition are determined not only by their own expectations for their performance, but their parents» expectations as well.

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

Given the high activity level here in Marin, the word athlete no longer has an age association, says Dave Goltz, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist who works in Larkspur at Mt. Tam Orthopedics as well as in Park City, Utah, as the head team physician for the U.S. freestyle Olympic ski team.

It might turn out that proteins such as NF - L could help make return - to - play decisions, but, Petraglia said, it may well be the case that proteins take longer to clear out of one athlete than another, mandating that each player have a well - defined baseline for comparison, and that specific levels deemed dangerous be rigorously calibrated.

While his training regimen and diet advice may not make a lot of sense for a regular athlete, Novak offers some advice that might apply to the overall fitness population as well and can have a tremendous impact on your overall level of fitness, athletic ability and quality of life.