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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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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

Every weekend that I didn’t have a sports game, that’s what I did,” he says. In high school and college, Wilson took on his first mentoring role as the captain of various sports teams. Coaches play a valuable role for kids who don’t have fathers,” he says.

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Sportsmanship From Day One (with fixed free lesson link)

Montessori Physical Education

If they can follow this simple statement, they will exhibit 99% of the behaviors we hope to see out of someone who we would consider “a good sport.” 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.

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Rising Stanford University Track Star Turns Injury Into Opportunity

Stanford Childrens

It has been a part of my room all of these years, through middle school and high school. This year, the high school senior’s dream came true. Yet, the elite high school athlete from Danville, California, had to endure a lot to get where she is today. And she wanted to get back to sport.”

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Top Athlete Supported by Circle of Caregivers

Stanford Childrens

From the field to the clinic, our pediatric sports medicine experts support R.J It takes a community to care for star high school athletes. He tapped into his athletic ability later in life, and today he plays multiple sports year-round,”. Sports come naturally to me, and when I have a goal, I push through it and do it.”.