Sentences with phrase «of youth football programs»

, in which they advocate for the removal of youth football programs from public schools.

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«There was a very good turnout with probably close to 1,000 people coming out for the four games,» said Ken Garrett, president of the Junior Falcons Youth Football and Cheer program.

Despite their youth, Folsom can steal some of the attention from the school's back - to - back section champion football program with a victory Saturday.

Our program is both fun & safe and it promotes the healthy development of youth football players.

- Providing leadership development for youth and young adults empowering them as coaches and coordinators of Football programs.

Last Friday, I participated in a roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C. conducted by the Aspen Institute's Sports & Society program called «Playing Safety: The Future of Youth Football?»

What I learned from working with the Newcastle team, and with youth football programs across the country over the years is that traditional concussion education in which athletes, coaches, and parents are taught the signs and symptoms of concussion, and the health risks of concussion and repetitive head trauma, isn't working to change the concussion reporting behavior of athletes.

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.

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:

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The program will be spearheaded by USA Football, the sport's national governing body and the Official Youth Football Development Partner of the NFL and NFLPA,.

PARK RIDGE — The Park Ridge Park District will begin collecting a $ 3 fee for each member of its outdoor affiliate programs, including youth baseball, football and soccer teams.

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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).

Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Virginia Tech and Wake Forest researchers began collecting more data on impacts among the youth football population by putting hit sensors in the helmets of over 300 youth football players from ages 6 to 18 in a program they are dubbing KIDS (Kinematics of Impact Data Set).

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 puzzling absence of women coaches in youth sports, as Scott Lancaster, the director of the National Football League's youth football program, noted in his book, Fair Play: Making Organized Sports a Great Experience for Your Kid, is «clearly one of the most backward traditions in sports todayFootball League's youth football program, noted in his book, Fair Play: Making Organized Sports a Great Experience for Your Kid, is «clearly one of the most backward traditions in sports todayfootball program, noted in his book, Fair Play: Making Organized Sports a Great Experience for Your Kid, is «clearly one of the most backward traditions in sports today.»

He is a past trustee of ACSM and currently a member of the Medical Advisory Committee for Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. that provides youth football and cheer and dance programs with an emphasis on maintaining academic standards.

She is accused of stealing from a nonprofit that serves more than 300 children in its youth football and cheerleading programs.

When the AAP felt youth tackle football had «no place in programs for kids» in the 50's; now in 2015, this is a game so sacred to our society that while, modifying «would likely lead to a decrease in the incidence of overall injuries, severe injuries, catastrophic injuries, and concussions» the AAP can not recommend limiting tackle for young children as «the removal of tackling from football would lead to a fundamental change in the way the game is played.»

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.

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:

Harrington is accused of stealing money from the Sidney Youth Football Program following a recent fundraising event.

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech (Eamon T. Campolettano, BS, Steven Rowson, PhD, and Stefan M. Duma, PhD) used biomechanical sensors to investigate exposure to head impacts in 9 - to 11 - year - olds engaged in a youth football program.