Sentences with phrase «school athletes more»

Concussion rates in U.S. high - school athletes more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, according to a new national study using data on nine team sports.

«Concussion rate in high - school athletes more than doubled in 7 - year period, U.S. study finds.»

The rate of concussions in U.S. high school athletes more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, new research shows.

THURSDAY, May 15, 2014 (HealthDay News)-- The rate of concussions in U.S. high school athletes more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, new research shows.

Not exact matches

As tuition rates continue to rise and colleges suffer painful funding cuts, football Bowl Subdivision schools spend more than $ 91,000 per athlete.

While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

Dawkins, who was allegedly negotiating directly with the player's family, said he had to «get more» from Adidas to secure the high - school athlete's commitment to the university.

And that's just WATCHING sports... Schools devote far more effort and money keeping up their sports than they do in ensuring the education and graduation of the very athletes they entertain with those sports.

Maybe your school had hundreds of athletes getting As in fake classes for more than a decade, and maybe you won't get any NCAA sanctions.

He knows it benefits athletes at most schools and that it's necessary in a world more focused on player welfare.

After the notoriety the COF gained from this, more than 1,000 readers chimed in on Reddit posts questioning whether College of Faith schools were «diploma mills» with subpar academic standards preying on deluded athletes.

He added that it also gives the local high schools a chance to experience a college - level race, «There are not many opportunities for high school student - athletes to watch a collegiate race in the area and this is a great opportunity to get exposure to a collegiate race but more importantly, to meet some great coaches from wonderful colleges and universities in the West.»

The school wasn't signing top - 10 classes, but a few more athletes looking Boise's way made a difference.

Saco stated that he always wanted to rule every athlete eligible whenever he could, but knew that the section's constitution and by - laws were more important than the goodwill of schools and supporters involved in transfer requests and other rulings.

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»

Since the autonomy structure is not really autonomy — just more streamlined collusion — and still does not permit schools to give athletes monetary benefits, it will have no effect on the lawsuits.

He got into coaching to help kids, and left jobs at more affluent suburban schools to so that he could be work to be a positive force in the lives of students and athletes at Richmond High.

Don't allow schools to pay more — this takes care of the tax and Title IX issues — but allow anyone else to pay any athlete they choose.

Plus, only a small fraction of the athletes at FBS schools are worth more on the open market than the value of their scholarships.

At its most broad level, the school was not allowed to cut women's teams and had to provide more scholarships to female athletes and better benefits to their teams.

That round of legislation turned the schmearing of cream cheese into an NCAA violation, and it took six more years before coming to the simple (and correct) conclusion that schools should be allowed to provide unlimited food to athletes if those schools chose.

The athletes trained 4 hours a day and more to be sure they perfected their routines, all while winding down the summer and beginning their school year.

Currently, as Director of Player Development for the NFA, Hewlett is involved with conducting more than 70 youth development camps annually for youth and high school athletes.

In the end, your production could easily be more important than his potential — but at the high school level, potential generally has the upper hand because if the light goes on for a natural athlete, the whole team gets better in a hurry.

Before the calendar turned to 2016, Carlson had accomplished more in four months than many high school athletes accomplish in four years.

The Unified races will be one of the many highpoints of Bay Area Games as more than 500 Special Olympics Northern California special education student - athletes compete in track & field events on Tuesday at Acalanes High School in Lafayette.

That's because of a rule that prohibits prospective athletes from signing more than one national letter of intent per year, even if it's in a different sport and the previous school properly released the athlete from the agreement.

The tragic deaths of two otherwise healthy 17 - year old high school football players from hyponatremic encephalopathy in 2015 (5, 6), however, underscores the need for more education towards translating evidenced - based science into practical advice for athletes.

A former NCAA athlete and high school social studies teacher, Jim currently advises the Positive Coaching Alliance, working to transform youth sports by helping to create a more positive and character - building experience for young athletes.

But a more targeted, personal approach will help a high school athlete make a connection.

By contrast, public schools athletes and parents seem to be a lot more willing to complain about a coach unlike a coach at a private school.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

High school athletes at any level from intramural to elite were more likely to participate in physical fitness and group sports or recreation than students who did not participate in high school sports in 2000.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

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.

More than 1,400 student athletes from five pilot schools — George Washington High School in San Francisco, Overfelt High School in San Jose, Berkeley High School, Carlmont High School in Belmont, and Milpitas High School — will be participating in four defined modules from the Dignity Health Concussion Network.

Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports — including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball.

Concussed athletes are more likely to be identified in schools with athletic trainers and thus more likely to receive proper treatment.

It all began when the Naperville Cemetery Association, needing more burial plots, decided to end Naperville Unit School District 203's lease of 4.7 association - owned acres for two athletic fields for Naperville Central High School School officials sought nearby land to replace the fields so athletes would not be bused to a far - flung site.

Researchers collected data from 100 high schools and found that two years after a reported concussion, female athletes reported more drowsiness and sensitivity to noise than male athletes.

High school athletes still suffer far more serious head injuries playing football and ice hockey than soccer, according to a study by RIO, which tracks concussion rates in high school sports.

Whether someone's son or daughter sprains an ankle, cuts their arm, twists their knee, or, more seriously, injures their head, a school district's ability to provide that particular student - athlete with the proper care is an enormous value.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- More than half of high school athletes with concussions play despite their symptoms, and often their coaches aren't aware of the injury, according to a new study.

The rate of concussions among U.S. high school athletes has more than doubled between 2005 and 2012, with numbers now as high as 300,000 per year, according to a study published this year in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

More than 7.8 million secondary school athletes participate in a wide variety of sanctioned sports annually.

Gain New Perspectives: More than 54 million students in middle and high school participate in youth sports making youth athlete safety a hot topic for a broad audience.

More than 6,300 youth organizations and 1,100 high schools signed up for Heads Up Football in 2015, improving the quality of the sport for their athletes (because they fell for our marketing).

These February workshops are targeted to reach spring coaches, youth coaches, sports officials, athletes, parents, school nurses, school counselors, athletic directors, upper administrators, including school board members, and anyone who wants to learn more about concussions.

More than 2 1/2 years after these laws went on the books, repeat concussions began to decline among high school athletes, researchers report online October 19 in the American Journal of Public Health.

More than 9,000 high school athletes are treated for exertional heat illness annually, according to a 2010 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.