Sentences with phrase «of youth sports teams»

I volunteer coach a 12 year old boy on one of the youth sports teams I coach.

«He has defended the less fortunate, served on boards, is the Chairman of the Ulster County Human Rights Commission, coached hundreds of youth, sponsored hundreds of youth sports teams and has been involved in numerous charitable endeavors.

Not exact matches

By aggressively pursuing youth sports, then growing with their consumers to supply college teams and eventually professional sports teams, Under Armor seeded, nurtured and grew a large and loyal base of customers.

Prime Youth Sports is a unique program that provides girls the opportunity to participate in sports camps and on AAU teams that are focused on giving its campers and players the opportunity to develop sport - specific skills, gain confidence, and learn the value of hard work and teaSports is a unique program that provides girls the opportunity to participate in sports camps and on AAU teams that are focused on giving its campers and players the opportunity to develop sport - specific skills, gain confidence, and learn the value of hard work and teasports camps and on AAU teams that are focused on giving its campers and players the opportunity to develop sport - specific skills, gain confidence, and learn the value of hard work and teamwork.

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

To staff writer Melissa Segura, soccer in the U.S. had always been the sport of the suburban upper crust, with its pricey youth travel teams, shiny Umbros and halftime orange slices cut by mothers who didn't have to work to make ends meet (or by their help).

Some parents see the sport as a path to a college scholarship; others fear that Gait's National Development Program will bring to youth lacrosse the travel - team lunacy of soccer and basketball.

Rocco's has been especially supportive of high school and youth sports with fundraising and team party promotions.

The complex is geared towards youth and amateur sports, however adult teams can also take advantage of the fields.

Former Bolton youth player Liam Irwin is tearing it up for Stockport Sports FC, a team in the 9th tier of English football, reports SB Nation's Aston Villa site, 7500 to Holte

Nexen Man City Cup Kicks Off Soon Manchester City, English Premier League Champions, and Surf Cup Sports, one of the most influential and recognized youth soccer and events management programs in the United States, will be teaming up once again for the upcoming Nexen Manchester City Cup.

Surprisingly, this percent was highest among younger coaches aged 18 to 34 and paid coaches (perhaps because, unlike 6 out of 10 youth sports coaches, they do not have a son or daughter on the team?)

Women, particularly the mothers who volunteer, are often the backbone of what makes a youth sports team work smoothly.

Director of Smart Teams Play Safe, Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and Brooke is also a founding member of the UN International Safeguards of Children in Sports global coalition.

Producer of: The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer (PBS) and author of: Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (Harper Collins) is well known as the «Mother of Youth Sports Safety» for her tireless advocacy and solutions based work in safeguarding young athletes.

«From my work in the youth sports trenches over the last seventeen years, I know that it is only by taking such a holistic approach to youth sports safety, one which involves all stakeholders as part of the safety team, can we work towards a safer sports experience for children, teens, and emerging adults,» de Lench said.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Brooke de Lench is Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher of MomsTeam.com, blogger and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and the Producer / Director / Creator of the new PBS concussion documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»

Adapted from the book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins 2006) by Brooke de Lench.

Many youth sports teams are unable to travel to national tournaments because of the price increases, which make it more difficult for the teenagers to be seen by potential college coaches.»

With youth sports organizations now offering leagues for 4 - and 5 - year - olds, travel teams for 9 - year - olds, and options for year - round involvement, some families find sports to be «too much of a good thing» and struggle to find a balance as they encounter the «earlier is better» and «more is better» mindset.

Produced and directed by Boston - based visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «THE SMARTEST TEAM» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parYouth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paSports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paryouth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paryouth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and paryouth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pasports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

In addition to being the Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM, Brooke de Lench is the author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins).

«The purpose of this event is to demonstrate to parents, coaches, administrators, and health care professionals that there are steps we can take now to make youth sports safer,» said Brooke de Lench, Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute and producer of The Smartest Team documentary.

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 succTeam: 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 succteam or individual success.

«I am excited about the opportunity the Smart Teams Play Safe summit and the SmartTEAM program have given me to work with some of the nation's leading youth sports safety experts in developing and testing a set of best practices.

Director of Smart Teams Play Safe, Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), Brooke is also a founding member of the UN International Safeguards of Children in Sports global coalition.

I am convinced that the way to change the culture of youth sports from one focused on winning to one that puts safety of our children ahead of, or at least on a par, with team and individual success, is what the sports parents of this country want.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.»

Brooke de Lench is the Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com and the author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), now available as an e-book on Amazon.com.

She is also author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com.

N.J.S.A. 18A: 40 - 41.5 (2010) provides immunity from liability for school districts for the death or injury of a person due to the action or inaction of persons employed by or under contract with a youth sports team, provided there is an insurance policy of not less than $ 50,000 per person per incident, and a statement of compliance with the school district or nonpublic school's policies for the management of concussions and other head injuries.

Brooke de Lench, Youth Sports Parenting Expert, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, has helped over 42 million moms and dads worldwide get the tools and information they need to make their child's youth sports experience safer, less stressful and more incluYouth Sports Parenting Expert, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, has helped over 42 million moms and dads worldwide get the tools and information they need to make their child's youth sports experience safer, less stressful and more inclSports Parenting Expert, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, has helped over 42 million moms and dads worldwide get the tools and information they need to make their child's youth sports experience safer, less stressful and more incluYouth Sports, has helped over 42 million moms and dads worldwide get the tools and information they need to make their child's youth sports experience safer, less stressful and more inclSports, has helped over 42 million moms and dads worldwide get the tools and information they need to make their child's youth sports experience safer, less stressful and more incluyouth sports experience safer, less stressful and more inclsports experience safer, less stressful and more inclusive.

Adapted from the book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (Harper Collins 2006) by Brooke de Lench, Executive Editor of MomsTEAM Youth Sports Safety Institute, and Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com.

Brooke de Lench is Executive Director of MomsTEAM Youth Sports Safety Institute, Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, Producer / Director of The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins).

Brooke de Lench is Founding Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Inc., Director of Smart Teams Play Safe, Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and Producer / Director / Creator of the PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»

Producer of: The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer (PBS) and is well known as the «Mother of Youth Sports Safety» for her tireless advocacy and solutions based work in safeguarding young athletes.

Brooke de Lench is Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute of Youth Sports Safety, Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and Producer / Director / Creator of the PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»

This past June I was invited to a press event at the NFL headquarters, where representatives from a group of national governing bodies for team sports talked about their safety initiatives, which showed just how far behind the NFL and its youth football arm, USA Football, had been until recently.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

As The Korey Stringer Institute and University of Connecticut's Doug Casa argued during his presentation at MomsTEAM Institute of Youth Sports Safety's Smart Teams Play Safe summit last year, youth sports safety policies should be developed and implemented by sports medicine professioYouth Sports Safety's Smart Teams Play Safe summit last year, youth sports safety policies should be developed and implemented by sports medicine professiSports Safety's Smart Teams Play Safe summit last year, youth sports safety policies should be developed and implemented by sports medicine professioyouth sports safety policies should be developed and implemented by sports medicine professisports safety policies should be developed and implemented by sports medicine professisports medicine professionals.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

The Naperville Park District plans to allow sports teams to start using its parks for practice next week, but the start of youth soccer games has been delayed, officials said.

As youth sports continue to go the way of travel teams and one - sport specialization, the college ranks are held prisoner by these new ways of thinking.

You can read Part I of our conversation with Parlow Cone on the dangers of heading HERE; and in Part II of our conversation below one of the sport's most decorated players looks back on her youth sports experiences and on the joys of playing on the U.S. National Team.

«The competition of youth sports is becoming more intense,» says Dr. Mathew Park, assistant professor of sport psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, Calif. «Parents are becoming more like fans of professional sports teams than parents.»

An athlete's experience in youth sports, whether in an individual sport or team sport, is built upon a number of sources, including parents, teammates and coaches.

Army Child and Youth Sports and Fitness Programs utilize the START SMART SPORTS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS to fulfill two of the four Baseline Programming Areas — Team Sports and OutSports and Fitness Programs utilize the START SMART SPORTS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS to fulfill two of the four Baseline Programming Areas — Team Sports and OutSPORTS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS to fulfill two of the four Baseline Programming Areas — Team Sports and OutSports and Outreach.

Presenting any award to a child that may devalue the performance of other team members is not appropriate in youth sports.