Sentences with phrase «school athlete last»

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In the final days leading up to last April's WNBA draft, Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault held a conference call with Lindsay Whalen, the University of Minnesota point guard whose iconic stature in the Gopher State had earned her the honor of being the first athlete in school history to have her own bobblehead doll.

With nearly 5,000 players from ages 6 to 18, including high school varsity student - athletes, the NCYRA has grown 15 percent each year over the last few years to reach its current size.

An exhausting, muscle - straining, four - days - a-week regimen — McNabb leads sessions that last month included Redskins running back Trung Candidate, NBA players Richard Jefferson and Luke Walton, plus college and high school athletes — but a romp nonetheless.

Last week I discussed what plyometrics are and why the majority of high school athletes are wasting...

Last week I discussed what plyometrics are and why the majority of high school athletes are wasting their time if they jump right into a high intensity plyometric program.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

Last week, several parents at a Bethesda, Maryland high school expressed concern over the planned attendance of a Gatorade sales rep at a mandatory pre-season meeting for student athletes.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

Last year, the Sports Legacy Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes research on sports - related head injuries, announced the formation of a new research center in partnership with the Boston University School of Medicine to study neuropsychiatric symptoms in athletes and to examine donated brains for signs of pathology.

Over the last 15 years he has trained more than 700 high school, college and professional athletes from nearly 20 different sports.

To me, accommodating resistance was useful for advanced athletes, but now that I have seen it used at the high school and college levels over the last two years, I recommend it for developmental athletes as well.

Few high - school principals have taken steps to ensure that their students are aware of the new academic standards for freshmen college athletes passed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association last year, according to a survey by four faculty members at Clemson University.

The Florida House Education committee will repeat last year's effort with a bill that transforms high school athletes into free agents able to transfer schools at will.