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As 2017 comes to a close, NHSCA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the NHSCA eNewsletter a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 4.
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USA Today
From March 2: Here's the reality: Only the elite high school athletes are highly recruited. It's not that uncommon for an athlete with exceptional skills and stats to go unnoticed, especially by NCAA Division II, Division III or NAIA schools that don't have large recruiting budgets. There may be many reasons why you don't have multiple college offers, but let's talk about the 3 most likely ones.
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STACK
From Nov. 9: Your in-season schedule can be tough to manage. You're challenged physically during practices and games, and then you're challenged mentally with school and other obligations. Sometimes this might cause you to skip out on things that could end up hurting your athletic performance. Or you might fall prey to bad habits that make your life all that much harder. So how can you maintain your in-season schedule and prime your body for optimal athletic performance? We listed six of the common mistakes athletes make during their season with easy-to-implement fixes. You'll notice the theme of this list centers around one keyword: Recovery.
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USA Today
From April 13: Eliah Drinkwitz isn't sure where he'd be now if he hadn't been plucked a few years back from the high school ranks. It's why Drinkwitz, South Carolina's offensive coordinator, is opposed to a proposed NCAA rule that would practically prohibit — or at least significantly curtail — hiring high school coaches for support roles in college football programs.
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USA Today
From Oct. 5: Here are the thoughts of Pat Fitzgerald, the football coach at Northwestern University: "An increasingly larger part of the evaluation of the prospect, for us, is evaluating the parents. It's a big part of the evaluation." Here are some thoughts on the kind of parents college coaches would like to avoid.
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Bloomberg
From March 16: Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest men's coach in NCAA history, discusses the key leadership lessons he's learned over 40 years of coaching, including that "failure was never a destination." He spoke to David Rubenstein for the latest episode of Bloomberg Television's "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations."
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The Atlantic
From April 13: Catching more sleep could help student-athletes catch more touchdowns, but some still argue sports schedules are a reason against moving back the first bell.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
From May 4: Before Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson was a household name in Wisconsin, he was the middle child of three, growing up in a tiny town in Kansas, trying to get through the list of farm chores as quickly as possible so he could play four sports year-round in high school. This upbringing of hard work and camaraderie served as the foundation for his unexpected success in college and a springboard to the NFL.
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USA Today
From Nov. 23: The recruiting process for a college coach takes a tremendous amount of time. For that reason, nearly every college coach in the country has a few warning signs or "red flags" they look for when considering a high school athlete. If they see or hear about a red flag for a player, that player's name gets scratched off the recruiting list almost immediately.
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From June 23: It was 1976, and Carol Hutchins was a freshman basketball player at Michigan State. She and her team were practicing for a rare game to be held in the main gym, Jenison Field House, as part of a doubleheader with the men when the Michigan State men's opponent arrived on the floor.
"You've got to get off the court," the coach told the women, according to Hutchins.
The women were perplexed. This was their scheduled practice time, and it was the day before an important game. Why should they have to vacate for an opponent's shootaround?
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By Noelle Talmon
From March 23: Fitness trackers from Fitbit, Garmin, and other manufacturers are big business. Millions of the devices are sold each year to help people monitor their physical activities and their number of calories burned. But how effective are they in actually improving an individual's health? According to Dr. Greg Hager, an expert in computer science at Johns Hopkins University, users should be particularly aware of devices that track people’s steps and advise them to walk 10,000 steps a day, which equals about five miles.
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