Changing the Game Project

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

All of those things come together in high school sports and that’s why I love them. He experienced many leadership challenges, a new coach and style of play, and all the inevitable ups and downs that high school teams have. That’s why I love school sports. This is why I put my kids in sports.

High School

Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

School sport participation can be a conversation conundrum. I know many people don't have positive experiences with sport. I reckon that the research shows this is how the coach and others 'construct' and input into the sport environment rather than being inherent to sport itself. 1999; Westerbeek et al.,

Sports

I Love to Watch You Play

JANUARY 5, 2025

Take Back the Game: Restoring Joy in Youth Sports With Linda Flanagan Take Back the Game: Restoring Joy in Youth Sports. Today, were diving into the world of youth sports with Linda Flanagan, a journalist, coach, and author of Take Back the Game. Get ready to rethink everything you know about youth sports.

Sports

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Every Sport Has Its Defining Moment Every sport has its defining momentthat one skill athletes spend years perfecting. Few sports give you a true, measurable way to achieve perfection, but in bowling, its real. Its a sport of precision, mental focus, and strategy. In basketball, its the shot that could beat the buzzer.

PE

MSU

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Jennifer Roth Michigan State University, Institute for the Study of Youth Sports The youth sport environment can be a great place for youth to learn important life skills that they can transfer to other areas of their lives. Recently, in the United States, there has been an increase in the professionalization of youth sport.

Psychology

First Beat

MARCH 12, 2025

TRIMP (Training Impulse) is a powerful metric that helps sports teams quantify training load using heart rate data, enabling coaches to optimize performance, manage injury risk, and ensure athletes are game-ready. In this article, well explain what TRIMP is , how its calculated, and how it can be applied to coaching decisions.

Sports

First Beat

JUNE 3, 2025

But as the performance and sports science staff soon realized, understanding how each player individually responds to that load was a crucial missing piece of the puzzle. This helps the coaching staff better understand how each individual player is responding and gives them a deeper context they didnt have before.

Sports

Gopher Sport

APRIL 17, 2025

Reflection, Takeaways, and Real-Time Application At the end of each module, there are 6 takeaways that summarize the video you just watched as well as 5 reflection questions for you to think about and personalize the content with. Upon finishing the module, you then have reflection questions you are required to answer.

PE Teacher

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

9:30-10:30 am – LECTURE Integrating Mindfulness in Physical Education by Katherine Lemaster OVERVIEW : This presentation will explore the role of mindfulness in enhancing both physical and mental well-being within the context of Physical Education (PE). What is Mindfulness?

Flexibility

Magnus Health

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As we prepare for 2025, were anticipating a heightened emphasis on student well-being and mental health along with continued exploration of technological advancements in the health office. Focus on Student Well-Being According to Merriam-Webster, well-being is defined as the state of being happy, healthy, or prosperous.

Health

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

This time constraint trained me to maximize time efficiency, but it also put metaphorical blinders on as well. The standards gave me a clear framework and reassured me that I was offering a well-rounded curriculum for the most part, but there are holes that I need to develop new content. It was an eye-opening and fulfilling exercise.

PE Teacher

AKA Sports

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Additionally, we will hear examples from the leadership team as to how AKA has impacted each of us, and looks to change the face of youth sports unilaterally. Marketing Director parker harrington - Sports and Family Sports bring families together in meaningful ways. My son Theo has done AKA All Sports Camp for the past 2 years.

Coaching

MSU

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I enjoy working out, coaching basketball (junior high and Michigan Tech University) and playing golf in my spare time. My favorite SCLA course has got to be KIN 846 – Sociocultural Issues for Sport Practitioners. This course linked the real world problems/societal norms with coaching. What brought you to the SCLA program?

Coaching

Magnus Health

JANUARY 22, 2025

From exciting outdoor field trips to team sports, the start of the winter season ushers in a whole new period of athletics and activities for students. This season, keep these winter sports safety and health tips in mind for your K-12 student athletes. Start with a dynamic warmup at a slow pace that builds up in speed and intensity.

Sports

Stanford Childrens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Conrads colleagues remember her as intellectually nimble, energetic and honest as well as a fierce patient advocate, Cornfield said. Conrads research focused on improving the lives of her patients, especially in cases that were not well understood. Her compassion and dedication to her patients and trainees were second to none.

Conditioning

Better Coaching

JUNE 8, 2025

Few topics in high-school and youth sports generate more anxiety than playing time. Parents naturally want their child on the field; coaches must balance individual development with team success; athletic directors juggle both sides while guarding a positive culture.

High School

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 9, 2025

This interest was first established when I read Rick Charlesworth's ideas on a game-based coaching approach that he called Designer Games. Available here and a few years later to collaborate with Amy Price on the papers: Can Gee’s good (digital) game design features inform game-based sport coaching.

Coaching

Changing the Game Project

JULY 24, 2025

Nine years ago, on Fathers Day 2016 I published a blog post called “ Life Lessons from my Old School Sports Dad. ” He was my coach. If you asked me to describe my father in terms of what he did for a living, I would say he was a fireman who happened to practice law and coach on the side. He was my father. But he was still gone.

Coaching

AASP

JUNE 26, 2025

Optimize your breathing with secret techniques used by Navy SEALs, elite athletes, and breathwork gurus… ideally by purchasing their book, hiring them as a “breath coach,” or investing in premium nocturnal mouth tape (“buy 3 get two free for $74.99”). The benefits of resonance frequency breathing are well-supported (e.g., Citherlet, T.,

Nervous system

Athletic Director U

MAY 24, 2025

The coach uses it to pay better players. The coach then leaves for a pay raise and takes all the players with him, and you have nothing to show for it. John’s, have received well-deserved publicity for their support. I want to help the coach(es). From my perspective it is a no-win situation. I want to win. All the above.

Motivation

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 23, 2025

One of the recent projects I worked on was a youth sport retention initiative instigated by Mitch Hewitt PhD funded by Tennis Australia and supported by Pip Henderson. The first project in youth sport retention I was involved in was an Australian football-AFL youth retention investigation several years ago.

Sports

First Beat

JUNE 17, 2025

In this article, Firstbeat’s Sport Scientist Graham Stark explains the importance of conducting regular fitness tests with your athletes, the differences in maximal and submaximal fitness testing, and how Firstbeat’s new fitness testing feature works. For example, you may have a technical drill that is regularly repeated by your Head Coach.

Fitness

First Beat

JUNE 6, 2025

This article is written by Domenik Theodorou , a Firstbeat Sports client and Performance Coach at RASTA Vechta, a professional basketball team competing in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). A monitoring system like Firstbeat does more than simply track training data.

Coaching

First Beat

JUNE 26, 2025

Every coach knows that the pre-season is vital. But how do you know if players are adapting well? But how do you know if players are adapting well? It sets the tone for the rest of the campaign. If you get it wrong, you can spend months trying to catch up.

Physiology

First Beat

JUNE 5, 2025

This article is written by Domenik Theodorou , a Firstbeat Sports client and Performance Coach at RASTA Vechta , a professional basketball team competing in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). A monitoring system like Firstbeat does more than simply track training data.

Conditioning

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Show how these skills are developed across sport.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

National PE & Sport Week (May 1-7) is just about here. And with the celebration of healthy lifestyles, active minds and bodies, let’s reflect on the importance of physical education and sports. SHAPE America’s National PE & Sport Week allows us to showcase, promote, advocate, and show off our best ideas.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cara has served and supported SHAPE America and SHAPE Maryland through service, training, Twitter chats (@CaraGrant11), coaching, mentoring, as a contributing author, and as a member of the SHAPE America EDI Podcast team. in kinesiology (sport pedagogy) and an M.S. She has an Ed.D. He has a Ph.D.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

MAY 24, 2022

I have always loved sports and participated in them my whole life. While the boys classes had a full array of sports and other activities, girls classes were mainly focused on exercise, marching, jumping rope, and being graded on the cleanliness and color of your sneakers and gym uniforms! So, I coached the team myself.

Coaching

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s simply not enough movement, especially for kids who are less involved in extracurricular sports. If we pause to take a panoramic view of our current landscape, we are reminded that our country has an obesity epidemic, rise in hypokinetic diseases, as well as mental health concerns. HPE teachers already have it figured out!

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Read on for an overview of what you can expect to see in the updated USA Lacrosse curriculum, as well as tips for modifying the rules, equipment, environment, and learning strategies as needed in your PE classes. Using the Lacrosse Lesson Plans. First, look at the lesson plans as organized, outlined opportunities.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

MAY 31, 2022

negotiating facilities use agreements, requesting funds from higher administration for women’s athletics, negotiating with faculty about academic vs. coaching duties). million, while women’s athletics received only a few thousand dollars from the Intramural Sports Club budget. Volunteer Coaches. A two-year timeline was set.

Academics

Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

As a basketball fanatic and coach, I challenge all sports fans and caring community members to take a quick break from March Madness to advocate for one often overlooked part of our education system that is critical to the development of the student athletes who are wowing us during this year’s tournament: physical education.

Coaching

Physical Education Update

AUGUST 14, 2022

As the scholastic sport season winds down, I’d like to post this message from a coach to his athletes. Circumstances beyond his control left Colin Ward, the head track coach at Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School, unable to attend the city championships with his athletes – athletes with whom he’d been working for months.

Coaching

Physical Education Update

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some of the footage was shocking, and this documentary could become a level-one coaching primer on. how not to coach high school athletes.”. The coaches demonstrated virtually every negative coaching behavior you can imagine. The interesting thing is that these coaches permitted their behaviors to be recorded.

Coaching

AASP

MAY 21, 2024

Various disciplines of research highlight the psychosocial benefits of sport participation. However, sport participation can also be a significant source of stress for college student-athletes. The research recognizes the subsequent impact on student-athletes’ wellness. Sport has inevitably become part of your personality.

Wellness

Physical Education Update

AUGUST 24, 2022

In an age in which legitimate sports like track and field , amateur wrestling , lacrosse, rowing — in fact most Olympic sports — struggle to get any television coverage whatsoever, I have just seen the ultimate sports television travesty. Well, it’s the United States Rock, Paper, Scissors League. That’s right.

Sports