Sentences with phrase «practice team sports»

Not exact matches

Monumental has expanded under Leonsis and includes the WNBA Mystics, the Washington Valor and Baltimore Brigade Arena Football League teams, investments in e-sports ventures, a sports facility in Northern Virginia and a 5,000 - seat Wizards practice facility planned to open in Southeast Washington in 2018.

WATER POLO As a member of the University of Rhode Island water polo team from 1976 to» 80, I found that your article about the 1988 U.S. Olympic water polo team (Dunking a Tough Foe, July 18) brought back fond memories of the hours I spent practicing and playing this wonderful sport.

The team's emphasis and buy - in toward meeting the program's established standards, and setting their own standards for what is a «perfect teammate,» has strengthened the family bond that comes with spending a large portion of the fall sports season practicing, playing, traveling and being together.

It's not until the hot days of August that Northern California football teams will start official practices, but for us at Cal - Hi Sports the kickoff of preseason for many years has been the annual Nike - sponsored camp for Northern California's top college prospects that is now known as The Opening Regionals.

«Kids that have played football or baseball grasp the team concept, but it takes a lot of time and practice before they start understanding the dynamics of the sport and really getting it.»

At Sports Insights, we practice what we preach, routinely going against the public by taking the league's least popular teams.

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).

To help put the foundations of the sport into practice, we also organise friendly and competitive matches and tournaments at all levels among OUPC members, with other universities, polo clubs, and professional teams.

If boys» and girls» soccer is played in the fall, then at least six teams (JV and varsity in all three sports) need 100 - yard fields to practice and play on.

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.

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.»

Whether they're of the autistic boy next door, the girl with Down Syndrome who was in your 2nd grade class, or the wheelchair sports team you saw practicing last week, these are the sort of images and thoughts that tend to stay with us long after the initial experience is over.

In Fall our co-ed soccer team practices and hosts games on our sports fields.

When it comes to extracurricular activities, you really can't beat kids» sports.Joining a sports team, or competing individually, helps your child stay active, practice and learn sportsmanship, improve social skills and concentration, and develop a hobby they can enjoy for life.

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.

But even the most committed among us face real - world challenges that can make family dinners hard: late hours at the office, sports team practices, extracurricular school activities, «picky» eaters at the table, and / or a lack of confidence in our menu - planning or cooking skills, to name just a few.

The closures mean spring sports teams that normally would be practicing by now will have to wait, according to Brad Wilson, director of recreation.

Under this policy members are covered while acting in their capacity as administrators in youth sports activities if they become legally obligated to pay for claims arising out of wrongful acts in the running of the league or team, employment practices, person injury or publishers liability.

One of the constants of coaching — regardless if you have guided youth sports teams for many years, or are new to the sidelines, is that not every practice goes smoothly.

(b) Athletic trainers licensed by the Board or certified or licensed by the proper licensing authority of another state, province, territory or the District of Columbia who are working in a team setting, treating injuries which arise in the course of practices or team sports events, may treat the participant at the events under the conditions of the referral, or the standing written prescription or written protocol.

They are involved in local, regional and national athletic training and sports medicine networks and maintain strong connections with practicing ATCs, athletic directors, team physicians and other industry professionals.

The Park District also would like sports teams to submit their schedules for practice and games by January of each year.

Most Giants» players have their roots in the Falcons Hockey Association and, with Centennial Ice Arena as home ice, find the accessibility of practices and games conducive to managing studies, as well as the commitment of a rigorous team sport.

At the four high schools on the Brandeis campus on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the sports teams now practice in the hallway because the Success Academy elementary charter school in the building gets sole use of the gym after school, says Jeff Picca, the chapter leader at the Global Learning Collaborative HS.

To find out, ScientificAmerican.com spoke to H. Richard Weiner, an internist and former team physician who has practiced sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee — and who also happens to be a former acclaimed All - American swimmer.

Richard Weiner, an internist and former team physician who has practiced sports medicine at the University of Wisconsin

He found that only about one - fourth of children participating in organized sports — such as baseball, softball or soccer — received the government - recommended amount of physical activity during team practices.

For endurance athletes, however, and many team sport athletes (who may be engaged in long training runs or rides, long practices, etc., and may not have an easy time taking in large amounts of high protein whole food before, during, and after activity), BCAAs can be tremendously useful.

Shaw's straightforward approach will appeal even to athletes who are new to yoga or skeptical about how the ancient practice and mainstream sports can team up.

Registered dietitian nutritionists provide nutrition care and support to people of all ages in a variety of settings including hospitals, schools, government sectors, grocery stores, corporate settings, private practice, businesses, sports teams and more.

Even for team sports like football, basketball, and soccer, speed work is often done at the end of the practice, when the nervous system is already exhausted.

Tens of thousands of health practitioners around the world, in hospitals, clinics, private practice, on sports teams, and elsewhere, employ some form of muscle testing in their work.

GA: Based on your research, what is the optimal approach for a team sport athlete, say a female basketball player, to take after a game or practice?

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Michael Buble's sporting dreams came true on Tuesday (20Dec11) when he joined his favourite ice hockey team for a practice session in his native...

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Think creatively about effective outlets where this practice could influence school culture: coaches and sports teams, freshman and senior trips, peer advisory groups, service groups, and extracurricular clubs and teams.

Although traditional team sports often are not a good fit for children with autism, individual athletic activities can build the skills and confidence of autistic kids, according to Dr. Anthony G. Alessi, chief of neurology at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, and a physician in private practice at NeuroDiagnostics, LLC, in Norwich.

• Children should ALWAYS wear the correct safety gear and equipment • The playing field or court should be safe, and checked before use • Teams should be made up of children of similar size, skill level, and physical and emotional maturity • All children participating should be physically and mentally prepared • Children practicing a sport should be watched by an adult who enforces the safety rules • Children should get enough fluids before, during and after sports

At school they study, but they also make friends, play, join sports teams and bands, and generally learn and practice an acceptable range of public behavior.

You don't need to know all the teams or all the players to practice a sport and you can easily learn the rules as you play, through trial and error.

The Committee to Re-Model Athletics supports the Boston Public Schools (BPS) initiative to restructure athletics to be an educational process where sport - related sciences (including explicit SEL skills) are learned, experienced, and practiced on student - centric teams.

Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.

- The Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio was all about Acura Team Penske from the first practice session on Friday through the checkered flag on Sunday's two - hour, 40 - minute IMSA WeatherTech...

Helio Castroneves kept Acura Team Penske on top of the time charts by setting the fastest lap in Practice 2 for the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship at Detroit.

Dog obedience is practiced as a sporting activity that demonstrates a handler and dog's ability to work as a team.

In response, some veterinary practices that previously had high percentages of their revenue from reproductive work have pivoted to sending a sports medicine team to Wellington in the winter months.

The game features six sports - football, soccer, baseball, hockey, basketball and golf - each with a mini-game and two skill - specific games so players can practice individually or play as a team.

And some firms, such as Covington & Burling or Proskauer Rose have sports law practices, representing the leagues or teams rather than acting as agents for individual players.