Sentences with phrase «playing as a professional athlete»

All covered except if injured while scuba diving when not certified, any motorized speed contest or while playing as a professional athlete.

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This notion isn't as outlandish as it might sound: some people believe that doping should be allowed in professional sport because if all athletes dabbled, it would create an even playing field.

The facility in Roseville often hosts high - profile professional athletes such as Oakland Raiders linebacker and Granite Bay High graduate Miles Burris, and NBA players when they are in town to play the Sacramento Kings.

Kobernus was a tremendous all - around athlete and played more of a utility role as a professional player.

Many companies, as a method of advertising their products as well as entertaining their employees, recruited top - flight athletes to play in what amounted to professional industrial leagues.

JOHN WINTERHOLLER, WYOMING One of the best athletes ever to attend the University of Wyoming — he won 12 varsity letters, including four as a halfback in football — John Winterholler turned down offers to play professional baseball after graduation and went instead to Marine officer - training school.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

If no medical personnel are on the sports sideline, any athlete showing potential signs of concussion, such as balance or motor incoordination (stumbles, slow / labored movements), disorientation or confusion, loss of memory, blank or vacant look or visible facial injury combined with any of these other symptoms, should be removed from play, barred from returning and referred for a formal evaluation by a qualified health care professional.

The measure, which limits practices with full - on tackling during the playing season and prohibits them during most of the off - season, comes amid growing concern nationwide over brain damage that can result from concussions among student as well as professional athletes.

This suggests neurologists may be able to use telemedicine to manage concussions, make removal from play decisions, and close the gaps in medical care by providing all collegiate and youth athletes similar concussion care as professional athletes receive.

Dr. Robert Kriegel, co-author of The C Zone: Peak Performance Under Pressure 1 says that professional athletes often reach this mindset in their work and that they refer to it as «playing in the zone.»

Although much of the attention has focused on adult professional athletes playing American football, health professionals have highlighted the need to understand risks among young athletes as well.

Growing up as an athlete, and playing tennis at the professional level, I felt invincible!

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In addition to other factors that may play a role in a teacher's success — such as a teacher's enjoyment of teaching and motivation and inspiration to teach10 — developing expertise in any field requires intense, sustained, and deliberate practice designed specifically to maximize improvement.11 This is true for professionals as diverse as elite athletes, surgeons, 12 musicians, chess players, computer programmers, and scientists.13 Why wouldn't the same hold true for teachers?

But after playing just 19 games as a professional athlete, he shocked the world of sports by announcing his retirement and potentially leaving millions of dollars on the table.

After Harvard Law School (class of «87, so he says he missed out on playing any ball with fellow HLS alumni Barack Obama,» 90), Elmore worked for three years with the Brooklyn District Attorney's office «out of a sense that I owed something to my community for the life I led before as a privileged professional athlete.»

That inspired me to pursue a career as a professional athlete and I was fortunate to be able to travel the world playing tennis until my early 20s.