Sports

As a high school basketball player, Tracy sustained two concussions within a short period of time. Tracy tells her story and emphasizes that concussions are a serious injury. Athletes should know that if they think they’ve had a concussion, don’t hide it, report it. Take time to recover. It’s better to miss one game than the whole season.

http://www.cdc.gov/ConcussionInYouthSports

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Is there another job title very similar to this title that I can use to look up? Any ideas will be quite helpful.

Child development programs, Ymca, Boys Girls club, summer camps, sports training facilities, Youth Sports programs ie little league, soccer etc.

Good Luck!

Purpose. What kind of dumb program doesn’t let you fix typos.

For my kids to be part of a team and learn to work together, for them to stay active, to have another outlet for building social relationships and make new friends, to learn some skills and learn to improve on them, to have fun while doing all that.

For me it’s not about teaching them some life lesson of sometimes you get picked and sometimes you don’t. They have plenty of chances to learn that such as in gym class when they might be the last guy picked. It’s also not about learning sometimes you win and sometimes you don’t, they learn that by playing board games at age 3 and 4. Our motto is "if you had fun, you won" I think too many kids are stressed out these days about winning and they have lost sight of the real meaning of sports. I know kids on my son’s team who half the time aren’t paying attention because they are too busy looking over at the score board. When kids are young and they lose, the lesson shouldn’t be "well try harder and maybe you will win next time" the lesson should be "winning isn’t everything, you should do your best and have fun" if you did that, then you did win in another way.

Colin Cowherd plays a game called appropriate or inappropriate to discuss ethics in youth sports. Talks about this because a girls high school basketball team beat a school 100-0. From 1/23/09, clip is 10 a.m.: McGwire/Globe on http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/radio/archive?name=herd_podcast

100-0 story: http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=903780

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The 12 inch mini hurdle explosions drill is a great way to increase balance and power, and to train youth for sports. Learn how to do the drill in this free youth athletic training video.

Expert: Windell Yancy and Curtis Jackson
Bio: Windell Yancy is a former top collegiate athlete who has trained Division I athletes in the Dallas, Texas area for 10 years.
Filmmaker: john carstarphen

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On http://ClubHouseGAS.com , umpire James Armstrong talks about the mechanics behind the plate

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Skip with an increased vertical jump to strengthen the hamstrings, improve explosiveness, and train for athletics. Learn how in this free youth sports training video.

Expert: Windell Yancy and Curtis Jackson
Bio: Windell Yancy, a former top collegiate athlete, has trained Division I athletes for 10 years. Curtis Jackson is a former NFL and CFL pro football player with the World Champion New England Patriots.
Filmmaker: john carstarphen

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I will be taking the team and individual photos for a youth indoor football league this summer. There will be approximately 500 kids. This league is a club league and is not associated with the schools. I have worked with these guys in the past doing informal work and they have verbally committed to me that I am their photographer. I have a meeting with the administrators this week and will be negotiating a kickback percentage for the league. What is standard? Whats the max? I was going to offer 7.5%.

If 7.5 is good for you, that’s what it is. If they want more raise your rates.

On http://ClubHouseGAS.com, long time youth sports coach and administrator, Donal Ratigan, gives sensible advice on how to talk to your child’s coach

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Should the fans be allowed to cripple the efforts of the coach who has worked all season to build a team that supports each other?

The answer, I think, is this: Should they have to? No. Should the parents and spectators be able to regulate themselve in a proper manner? Yes. Should the leagues start regulating? Yes, if they have to. I hate the idea of the leagues getting that envolved, but part of their duty is to the child. If the parents and/or spectators are creating a hostile or bad environment for the children, then the leagues have to put their foot down. I hate to pawn it off on them, but there may be no other choice.
When they sign up, the parents should be given a set of guidelines that they have to recognize and sign, then if they break those, the leagues will have the option to ask them to leave the games. The problem that I forsee with this is that if the parent is out of line and is asked to leave, the team may suffer and the child may suffer because the parent may take it out on them.

Overall, it is a fine line and people need to learn how to behave themselves in a civil and fun manner.