Sentences with phrase «of amateur athletic»

It's a story at once familiar and unique, and most captivating in its portrait of amateur athletic life as a series of constant challenges — in and out of pads — and a gauntlet of ever - present uncertainties.

Football can and should exist toward the same end as any other sport: the spirit of amateur athletic participation.

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They are heading to alternative platforms to find people like Brodie Smith, the world's most famous ultimate - frisbee player; or the Bryan brothers, golfers who do trick shots on Instragram; or Dude Perfect, a crew of athletic, goofy amateurs that perform sports stunts.

An account of the day Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile: «There was ham salad for lunch, a shower of rain at 5.15 pm, a gusting wind, a false start, and then history... It is 60 years today since that iconic moment on the crunchy, uneven, gravel track at Iffley Road, Oxford... Bannister was 25, a medical student, and he was running in the annual Amateur Athletic Association v Oxford University Athletic Club match.»

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympics.

Not only has Dennis pushed for testing, so have the medical committees of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) and the IOC.

Amateur softball, despite near - zero stakes and, let's be honest, a reasonably low level of athletic skill needed to participate, is no different.

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»

He won the USA National Amateur Athletic Union Weightlifting Championship and then traveled to the Soviet Union to participate in an international weightlifting competition — where he pulled off a spectacular 402.5 pound lift, breaking the world record and winning the hearts of the crowd.

The University of Adelaide offers studies in classical The Adelaide Harriers Amateur Athletic Club is the oldest such club in South Australia with hostory dating back over 100 years.

A false start, according to the International Amateur Athletic Federations guidelines for track events, is characterized by one of two situations Jun 13, 2017.

RESOLVED that the National Association of Secondary School Principals Board of Directors opposes the current NCAA effort to deregulate amateur athletic rules.

«Halsbury's Laws of Canada — Athletics (Brecher)-- This title sets out the legal framework that supports and regulates sports and athletic activity in Canada, both professional and amateur.

Definition of «prize fight» (2) In this section, «prize fight» means an encounter or fight with fists or hands between two persons who have met for that purpose by previous arrangement made by or for them, but a boxing contest between amateur sportsmen, where the contestants wear boxing gloves of not less than one hundred and forty grams each in mass, or any boxing contest held with the permission or under the authority of an athletic board or commission or similar body established by or under the authority of the legislature of a province for the control of sport within the province, shall be deemed not to be a prize fight.

Note: A sponsored and / or organized Amateur or Interscholastic Athletic event includes training camps, team sports, or any formal grouping of people participating in one or multiple events that may / may not require a fee for participation.

The team's work paid off as the times recorded for some members qualified for the Amateur Athletic Union's (AAU) Junior Olympic Games standards, one of the highest honors that a high school athlete can receive.

Colorado Springs, CO About Blog USA Fencing was founded in 1891 as the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) by a group of New York fencers seeking independence from the Amateur Athletic Union.

Among them have been 22 Amateur Athletic Union All - American players, three NBA players, two NFL players, and four of the last six high school standouts to be named Ohio's Mr. Basketball.

«My experience as a professor and administrator at a Big Ten university demonstrated to me that the best recruits in almost every «meet - the - public» profession have these traits: 1) Significant amateur athletic backgrounds; it's proof of team spirit.