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Why I Love High School Sports

Changing the Game Project

All of those things come together in high school sports and that’s why I love them. That’s why I love school sports. I turned to my friends in the stands and said “this is why you play high school sports.” This is why I put my kids in sports. This is why I love sports in general.

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

We even built a mountain bike park on our school grounds for students to enjoy because we recognize how bikes can be used to help our students achieve success. Riding For Focus and the Outride Fund are great places to start, as well as checking with your local hospitals/clinics, professional sports teams, and local businesses.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

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.,

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. Across the United States, an increasing number of parents and coachesoften with good intentionsseek to introduce sports to children at younger and younger ages and with greater intensity than ever before.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

It's when teachers are educationally purposeful and strengths-based in their planning, teaching, and assessment that physical education achieves the three dimensions of education in, through, and about movement.

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What is TRIMP? How Sports Teams Use It to Optimize Training

First Beat

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. One important consideration when interpreting TRIMP data is that the same score can be achieved in a variety of ways.

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Why Bowling Deserves a Spot in Every PE Curriculum

Gopher Sport

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. Ive been there. The perfect game. I take my steps.

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