Sentences with phrase «playing time an athlete»

Not surprisingly, the more playing time an athlete had, the greater chance that particular youth would sustain a high - magnitude head impact.

Not exact matches

Tanking is obviously an inexact science, and has much more to do with lineup construction and the allocation of playing time than anything else — players are professional athletes, and convincing them to lose on purpose to bring younger, cheaper new talent to their franchise isn't exactly a great sell.

Playing collegiate soccer as a Division 1 athlete sparked my interest in nutrition and fitness at a very important time in my life.

«He's only 18 years of age, but seeing him play at left - back for the first time, he looked an outstanding athlete and a really good footballer,» the Reds boss said, after the match.

Despite the limited rehearsal time, Strauss immediately let her creativity flow to capture the right moment, thinking about what was best for the audience listening and the athlete she was playing down to the ring.

But Missouri's Drew Lock proved that big plays are there for the taking with enough time and the right athlete on the other end of the throw, and no quarterback on the regular season schedule was closer to what Georgia will see from Mayfield.

But if you're a athlete playing any sport and can not perform something as basic as shooting free throws, you aren't spending enough time in the gym, and you're just hurting your team.

I wouldn't go quite that far, as there are great athletes who played for a long time with outsized personalities in other sports, too.

Trice is the only black player on the Iowa State football team, the first black varsity athlete at Iowa State College (as Iowa State University was then known) one of only a few black football players in the country at the time playing against white opponents.

Reilly says, «Out of ego or greed... the grizzled veteran keeps on playing... stealing TV time, fans... and even endorsements from the real athletes.»

Davenport is an impressive athlete who can play the edge in Seattle at a time when there's still some unknown about Cliff Avril, and even Malik McDowell.

CIF High School Sports Successes: 17th all - time winningest coach in California with a record of 530 - 133 20 league titles (BVAL & EBAL) 10 NorCal Championships with a California state championship 10 NCS championships Sent more than 32 athletes to play ball at the collegiate and pro level Numerous «Coach of the Year» honors including her favorite honor, «California Coaches Association's Northern California's Coach of the Year, 2014»

He makes plays because he's the best athlete on the field, bot because he's in the right place at the right time... and he's best athlete on the field.

After all, there are a bunch of other athletes who played winter sports who are there, and letting someone take time off just doesn't seem fair.

He was the greatest all - round athlete of his time and he could play any game in which a ball was used better than anyone else.

Gone are the years where your athletes solely played high school season sports, now we have clubs and tournaments throughout the year, leaving no time for athletes to train and prepare for the season ahead.

GBA is designed to teach athletes the proper fundamentals of basketball along with teaching them sportsmanship, team play, positive work ethics, and at the same time acquire new and lasting friendships.

The new official statement is adapted from a concept developed by Courson, along with Bert Mandelbaum, MD, and Lawrence J. Lemak, MD, using a terms common in both sports and medicine: coaches and athletes call time outs to gather a team together and discuss game strategies or to call a play, while, in medicine, doctors take a time out immediately before every surgery when all operating room participants stop to verify the procedure, patient identity, correct site and side.

However, these student - athletes continue to play because they don't want to lose scholarships, disappoint their parents and, more often, they haven't taken the time to develop other social or academic skills.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

As a result, only time will tell whether they will fulfill the promise that many in the concussion community see them as having, although I, for one, think they will eventually revolutionize the way in which athletes are identified for remove - from - play screening on the sports sideline, among other uses, and, within five years, are likely to be standard equipment for all contact and collision sports.

Student - athletes will benefit the most from reduced exposure to potentially injurious blows and from what one calls the «conundrum of having to self - report an injury that they may not recognize as being potentially injurious or dangerous in the moment of competition,» or, as recent studies suggest, that athletes know are potentially dangerous but choose not to report because they fear being punished by the coach for doing so, such as by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring in front of teammates that reporting symptoms made them «weak» or less «manly»; and

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

Unless the coach made it clear that an athlete needed to report symptoms of concussion, it was perceived to be unacceptable to come out because of a «headache» or «dizziness» [because] athletes did not want to be wrong about being concussed and suffer negative consequences» such as being punished by the coach for reporting concussive symptoms «by removing them from a starting position, reducing their future playing time, or inferring that reporting concussive symptoms made them «weak.»»

Some of the same studies suggest that athletes may be more likely to self - report if they feel safe in self - reporting, in other words, when they don't fear adverse repercussions if they report in terms of decreased playing time, losing their starting positions, or being embarrassed by the coach in front of their teammates for their lack of toughness, such as, for example, by being labeled a «wimp» (or worse).

It is up to parents to do whatever they can to make sure that their child's coach does not continue to convey the message to athletes that there will be negative consequences to concussion reporting by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring that reporting concussive symptoms made them «weak», but, instead, creates an environment in which athletes feel safe in honestly self - reporting experiencing concussion symptoms or reporting that a teammate is displaying signs of concussion (and reinforcing that message at home)

16 % of parents felt there should be no specific time before a young athlete could safely return to play after a concussion.

The slower times led researchers to believe that the 5 - second «threshold may be a useful cutoff for exploration in future studies as a criterion for having an athlete stop play pending medical evaluation for concussion.»

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

The reason this is important is that the developing athlete may not end up getting valuable playing time if the coach is intent on winning and playing the best players.

The young athlete should be given playing time during games.

There are enormous risks to breaking the silence: athletes know that speaking up could cost them position, playing time, scholarships, and a much needed letter of reference if they want to play at the next level.

Neal Goldman, Brand Manager for Men's Lacrosse at Brine, talks about ways to reduce the risk of concussion in boy's lacrosse, which, according to a 2011 study1 of U.S. high schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff, has the third highest concussion rate (46.6 per 100,000 athletic exposures (1 AE is one athlete participating in one organized high school athletic practice or competition, regardless of the amount of time played), behind only football (76.8) and boys» ice hockey (61.9).

«I see a lot of stress in athletes about practice time and playing time.

Sixteen percent felt there should be no specific duration of time before a young athlete returns to play after a concussion (Figure 1).

An athletic exposure is defined as one athlete participating in one organized high school athletic practice or competition, regardless of the amount of time played.

He was a talented athlete who played baseball and hockey in high school and bowled in the prestigious Northend Junior Traveling League (and still had the program's all - time season's high average).

At the same time we want to make sure we're not competing and putting student athletes at risk, when they shouldn't be on the playing field.

In athletes, where slowed reaction time can put them at higher risk for injury or re-injury, monitoring reaction times in players can be a key assessment before allowing them to return to play.

That means players have less time to compensate for the different playing styles of left - handed athletes.

Because this was a retrospective study of medical records and notes by team physicians and athletic trainers, the research team wasn't able to quantify the specific amount of time athletes kept playing before reporting a concussion, whether that was immediately after finishing the game or days later, to determine how the length of a reporting delay contributed to recovery time.

When controlling for other factors shown to prolong recovery time, such as a history of concussion or previous diagnosis of a learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or depression, the researchers found that athletes who delayed reporting a concussion still took an average of five more days to receive medical clearance to return to play.

Marna Thall: There's more activity in the way of going to play with kids or going to the park or going and doing little things here and there, but not all naturally thin people are, you know, hitting the gym all the time or are — are these great athletes.

It works wonders with athletes who usually have to give all - out efforts in a sporting event for a short amount of time, while tak - ing planned or unplanned rest periods throughout the game (football play - ers, MMA fighters).

Way back in Chapter 3, I talked about how Mark Sisson gives an excellent perspective on the conundrum of stress and endurance training in his book «The Primal Connection» — in which he describes how a major factor at play in the success of some pro endurance athletes is relatively lower amounts of work stress, deadlines, office obligations, etc. in the life of those who are able to devote most of their time to training.

After all, the life of professional athletes typically includes intensive training regimens, rigorous playing schedules, and continuous travel (often across time zones)-- a combination of factors that makes players susceptible to insufficient sleep or poor quality shut - eye.

You may not be a professional competitive athlete, but you make time in your busy schedule to train or play hard whenever you get the chance.

At the same time every athlete is an individual and so are their environmental variables so bear in mind that you need to be open to playing with and experimenting with the re-introduction of higher carbohydrates into your diet to find what works best for you.

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