Sentences with phrase «school football safer»
It has been a good two weeks for parents looking to make high school football safer, with a number of promising developments.
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As high school football teams around the state are taking part in early spring practice, the University Interscholastic League is placing a new requirement on coaches to make the game safer.
Lake Tahoe Football Camp is 4 - day, 4 - night contact camp that gives 8 high school teams (per session) a chance to work on fundamental team building and football skills in safe, competitive and beautiful enviFootball Camp is 4 - day, 4 - night contact camp that gives 8 high school teams (per session) a chance to work on fundamental team building and football skills in safe, competitive and beautiful envifootball skills in safe, competitive and beautiful environment.
«THE SMARTEST TEAM: Making High School Football Safer», an hour - long documentary designed to help football programs and athletes play safer and smarter, which had its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) in August, will air in the New England area on WGBH - TV on Sunday, October 13, 2013 aFootball Safer», an hour - long documentary designed to help football programs and athletes play safer and smarter, which had its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) in August, will air in the New England area on WGBH - TV on Sunday, October 13, 2013 afootball programs and athletes play safer and smarter, which had its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) in August, will air in the New England area on WGBH - TV on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 3 p.m.
When I look back on this summer I will see in my mind's eye the faces of the hundreds if not thousands of youth and high school football moms and dads who I have been working with, not just from Oklahoma but in just about every state in the nation, to make the sport safer.
Make safety training and the teaching of proper tackling mandatory for coaches: In order to coach youth or high school football a coach should be required to be certified in concussion safety and safe tackling training.
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.)
Brooke de Lench is Founding Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Inc., Director of Smart Teams Play Safe, Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and Producer / Director / Creator of the PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»
All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).
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«THE SMARTEST TEAM: Making High School Football Safer,» an hour - long documentary designed to help football programs and athletes play safer and smarter, will have its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 10 p.m. and August 20th at 5:00 a.m. CDT and will roll out to all other PBS stations throughout tFootball Safer,» an hour - long documentary designed to help football programs and athletes play safer and smarter, will have its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 10 p.m. and August 20th at 5:00 a.m. CDT and will roll out to all other PBS stations throughout tfootball programs and athletes play safer and smarter, will have its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 10 p.m. and August 20th at 5:00 a.m. CDT and will roll out to all other PBS stations throughout the fall.
Greater Buffalo High School Sports Hall of Famer Dick Gallagher told WBEN that football is safer today than it ever was because of clinics.
«High school football helmets offer similar protections despite different prices: Parents should know how to ensure children have safe football helmets.»
Summary: When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible, total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe, protected life or to summon the courage through playing football to step back into the world.
Official Premise: 23 BLAST When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible, total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe, protected life or to summon the courage through playing football to step back into the world.
At the same time, though, courts have refused to apply the defense of assumption of risk when educators failed to provide adequate supervision such as where a competitor in a track and field meet was struck by an errant discus while standing in a safe zone; a student was injured during an indoor (American) football practice when he slipped on a wet gym floor where coaches failed to provide proper supervision or after another player was injured due to the lack of supervision at a practice; coaches did not warn a student sufficiently about the dangers of diving into a pool; coaches conducted a track practice in a high school hallway that unreasonably increased a student's risk of injury; and a coach lacked enough experience to provide adequate supervision to avoid injury to a cheerleader.