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My Title IX Story: Speaking Up for Equal Opportunity as a High School Student

SHAPE America

My dad was a soccer player in high school and helped found a rec league in our community in East Hampton, CT, which my brother and I both played in. When I started middle school, there was no girls soccer team, and it didn’t occur to me that I wouldn’t be allowed to try out for the boys team — so I did. I lasted one day.

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High School Strength and Conditioning Curriculum

PLT4M

At the high school level, the weight room is a classroom. Therefore, high school strength and conditioning curriculum plays a pivotal role in students’ long-term development in physical education. A physical education teacher works with a student in a high school strength and conditioning class.

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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.

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My Title IX Story: Playing Sports Is What I Was Meant to Do

SHAPE America

I did play summer rec league softball for a couple of summers, but in school, there was nothing we were allowed to play. When I was in junior high, the basketball coach allowed me to be the statistician for the team and I was in heaven! My parents told me I couldn’t, and the coaches said I couldn’t, so I couldn’t.

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Stronger Together – 5 Keys To Growing Honesdale’s S&C Program

PLT4M

Five years ago, when Paul Russick took over as head football coach at Honesdale High School in Pennsylvania, he had aspirations for success on and off the football field. And like many football coaches, he looked at the weight room as an opportunity to help build the program.

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Get to Know Cedric Wilson, Winner of a Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award

Stanford Childrens

In high school and college, Wilson took on his first mentoring role as the captain of various sports teams. Through his time in the military, Wilson volunteered as a mentor or assistant coach at a middle school or high school near every place he was stationed.

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Sportsmanship From Day One (with fixed free lesson link)

Montessori Physical Education

Coaches like players who are fun to play with because they enhance team unity. If the coach likes you, you have a better chance of making the team and getting more playing time. Players who are fun to play against are respectful before, during, and after the game to their opponents, coaches, and refs.