Sentences with phrase «school football players who»

Last summer, for instance, I spoke to the parents of nine hundred elite high school football players who were only too happy to practice and play in the dangerous heat and humidity of Virginia in the hopes of impressing all of the college scouts there to watch enough to land a college athletic scholarship.

It seems increasingly obvious that professional football players and the owners for whom they butt heads every Sunday and Monday (and occasional Thursdays and Saturdays) for money simply can't be counted on to set the right example for the tens of thousands of youth and high school football players who suffer concussions every season, far too many of which, like Morey's, never get reported to the coach, the athletic trainer (if there is one), or even their teammates, friends or parents.

It wasn't until two years later that researchers at Purdue stumbled upon, literally, evidence that high school football players who had not been diagnosed with concussion neverless suffered similar short - term neurocognitive impairment from the cumulative effects of RHI.

Their 2013 study used 2008 and 2009 Rivals.com data on 1,006 high school football players who did not play multiple positions and went on to power - conference college teams.

The death last week of Damon Janes, the 16 - year - old Brocton high school football player who suffered a devastating on - field head injury, has raised more questions than answers.

The family of a Montclair High School football player who died two days after collapsing in a 2008 junior varsity game agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against the school and the township's Board of Education for $ 2.8 million, the family's lawyer said.

A Missouri high school football player who has been hospitalized with a brain injury since an October playoff game died Thursday, according to the school district's superintendent.

The family of a high school football player who died from a head injury sustained during a 2014 practice session has settled its lawsuit with the Wake County (N.C.) district.

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I knew who the All - Americans were, I knew where all the top NFL players attended school, and my love for college football only grew when I began attending major (sometimes) college games at Missouri in the late 1990s.

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Each year Hameline brings in some 75 students who think they are football players, a significant number for a small school (Wagner's full - time enrollment: 1,292, half of whom are women).

Seeing the iconic trophy in person was a true moment of honor and inspiration for the young football players who are striving for success at Arsenal Soccer Schools USA.

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

It features Doug Casa and includes some video from a fantastic PBS Frontline documentary that aired a while back which focused on the fate of four high school football players in Arkansas who suffered heat stroke during pre-season practice in the summer of 2010.

Two of the Purdue studies [36,37] suggested that it might be possible to reduce risk of brain trauma by gradually increasing the amount of contact in the football pre-season to allow time for players» brains to adjust, and one, by finding that players who sustained more than 50 hits per game, were much more likely than those who sustained fewer hits to be «flagged» by ImPACT and / or fMRI results as having neurocognitive deficits or altered brain activity, suggested that players be limited to a certain number of plays per game (a hard rule to implement, given the prevalence of two - way players in the high school game).

Numerous concussion and biomechanical studies have been conducted involving high school and college football players, but only few studies have focused on players under the age of 14, who represent more than 70 percent of those playing the sport.

The study involved male high school football players from the state of Pennsylvania who incurred a sport - related concussion during the preseason or regular season between 2002 and 2006.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

* No requirement that high school football programs have «adequate» medical insurance for treatment related to concussions, or insurance coverage provided by the high school or state high school association as a last resort for players who need treatment but aren't adequately insured.

Lou Costa, who is the founder of the newly formed United States Strength Coalition and is also a strength and conditioning coach for high school football players focused on the importance of a level playing field and stressed that proper strength and conditioning along with a proper diet are the keys to athletic success.

«We are proud of the performance of Henson Demonstration Secondary School for producing the Most Valuable Players and winning this year's championship,» the statement quoted the General Manager, External Relations of SPDC, Igo Weli, who was represented by the Social Investment Manager, Emmanuel Ekpenyong at the presentation of the coveted football cup and prizes to the winners in Benin, Edo State.

He said that in keeping with the championship goal of ensuring healthy interest in football and education, SPDC introduced a scholarship award to a fully paid four - week education programme for either of the two best players who fulfils the required academic qualifications to the 2018 Sussex International Summer School, with possibility for participation in youth and footballing activities of the newly - promoted English Premier League team, Brighton and Hove FC.

What's more, they added, the sample is heavily weighted to men who played football in college or professionally, exposing them to far more hits to their heads than those who played only on youth or high school teams: These younger players accounted for only 16 brains in the sample of 202.

The high school football players were compared with non-football playing athletes who were swimmers, basketball players and wrestlers.

The more recent figures show 79 % of football players overall suffered from CTE, when including people who had played high school, college and semi-professional football.

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A 16 - year - old high school football player from Florida has died, days after he collapsed due to heat stroke during an offseason Sight for saw eyes Who is Natalie Sawyer dating and what football team does Sky Sports News presenter support?

The supporting characters are vital and vivid: Tracy's tightly plotted game plan is jostled by 11th - hour competition from a sweet football player (newcomer Chris Klein) and his far more complicated lesbian sister (another newcomer, Jessica Campbell), who is, truly, way too cool for school.

Before that, we get to spend time with each of the four lead youths, which include a former high school football quarterback (Dennis Quaid), a depressive former basketball player (Daniel Stern) who's something of comic relief, and a short - tempered grad who's very defensive of his height (Jackie Earle Haley, coming off three Bad News Bears movies).

The project is inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger and will center on Ezra's Spencer James, a rising high school football player from South Los Angeles who is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High.

Since these kind of movies always require at least the hint of a love triangle, there is also Ben Parish (Jurassic World's Nick Robinson), a football player from Cassie's high school who has been nicknamed «Zombie» and given a rank of importance at the Army base.

Coleman joined the team and would later write that the «boys who counted in the school were the first - string varsity football players.»

Gary Riekes, the program founder, is a former Stanford University football player who believes that the center can be thought of as a «secret school» that uses a wide array of athletic equipment, coaching expertise, and coordinated arts, music, photography, and nature - study programs as incentives to improve academic performance.

When their high school finds out what happened, Emily and Lucas, a football player who was also there that night, are required to perform community service at a center for disabled people.

It's about a young Ivy League grad who ends up working as a sports reporter in Greenwood, Mississippi; covers a promising high school football player he thinks is destined for the NFL; then comes back to town six years later when the player is on trial for murder.

To that end, Mr. Coker's late and brief discussion about defining one's own success falls rather flat and attains a whiff similar to the high school football coach who goes on and on about how everybody is a success if they just believe they are — but then only lets the best players on his team play.

«If I were to pass judgment on, say, football players — that they were the asshole kids who used to beat me up in high school — that's not really looking.»»