Elementary School High School Sports 
SHAPE America
JUNE 2, 2022
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. It’s Official.
Changing the Game Project
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Two weeks ago, my son TJ’s (#9 above with his senior teammates) high school soccer career came to an end in a state playoff game, culminating a week of highs and lows for me, of beginnings and endings, of joy and pain. All of those things come together in high school sports and that’s why I love them.
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Slow Chat PE
JUNE 2, 2023
Just as a sports team reviews game films to engage in honest conversations on how to improve, we must adopt a similar mindset when reflecting on our actions, decisions, and interactions. While I was not a wise old man, I certainly understood the world better than high school students did. It really is a “grown up” decision.
Physical Education Update
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
While a quick check in Wikepedia shows that physical education is mandatory in elementary school and that their system includes specialist PE high schools, Romanian physical education does have its problems – just as it does in North America. Here is a short list of some of the problems they discussed.
PLT4M
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Authors Note: In recent years, the larger educational community has explored if any subject should be required, especially at the high school level. It empowers elementary school, middle school, and high school students to build up a wide variety of tools to live healthy lifestyles. Find a Time.
AASP
DECEMBER 15, 2023
<p>The landscape of youth sports has changed significantly in the last 20 years with the emergence of club sports and more athletes focused on developing elite-level skills rather than sport enjoyment. </p> <p>Based on the current findings, sports specialization had varying effects on families.
PLT4M
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Even though it is widely accepted that 60 minutes a day of physical activity helps elementary school students all the way through high school students, only one-quarter of this group is actually getting the recommended amount of physical activity. . And at schools, physical activity is getting the cut.
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