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WMTV-TV
A Richland Center High School coach and his football team are making sure kids and families in his Wisconsin community have what they need this holiday season. Coach Andrew Troxel spends a lot of his time teaching world religions at Richland Center High School, and he also coaches the football team.
Troxel does not just teach his athletes about sports. He preaches what he calls a "one hive" mentality, focusing on the larger community.
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NHSCA
The NHSCA Sports Hour is broadcast every Thursday at 6 p.m. Eastern time with host Jeff Fisher at artistfirst.com/nhsca.com.
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WAGA-TV
Starting in the 2020-2021 school year, girls flag football will be an official high school sport across Georgia. The announcement was made at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where the girls flag football state championship was being held later in the day. The push to make girls flag football an official sport started last year with a pilot program in Gwinnett County, sponsored by the Atlanta Falcons among others.
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Reuters
One in every three high schools in the U.S. has no access to an athletic trainer, according to a large study.
Even among the schools with some access, in roughly half the trainer is only part-time, the researchers report in the Journal of Athletic Training.
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Zach Barden and Kaden Quirk have been best buddies since they met in kindergarten at the Hadley School in Swampscott about a decade ago. Exceptional lacrosse players, they share a love of all sports and have been teammates on the field of play for much of their life, mostly for St. Mary’s.
The two high school juniors are also teammates off the field, having started Brand Boston Apparel, a sports-themed clothing company, this fall.
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The Columbian
Losing once in a while in sports — instead of something that truly matters — can be particularly valuable. Failure leads to self-reflection and self-motivation while providing the roadmap to eventual success.
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Bleacher Report
All his life, Antwain Littleton has done things he wasn't supposed to. On the football field, one look at him would lead to the assumption he's clogging holes as a defensive lineman for St. John's College High School in Washington, D.C. After all, the now-17-year-old junior is 6'1" and 270 pounds. But then St. John's quarterback Sol-Jay Maiava hands Littleton the ball. Then gives it to him again. Then Littleton scores a touchdown. And then another.
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Charleston Gazette-Mail
Writes Derek Redd: "I think some people forget about the time requirements high school coaches have. I think some others don’t think about it in the first place. It’s not just practices and games. It’s offseason conditioning. It’s weekend film sessions. It’s being there at all hours of the day, maybe to instill some discipline, maybe to be a sympathetic ear."
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Standard Examiner
College and high school athletes can be uniquely at risk of opioid addiction, according to substance use experts, but local officials say their institutions are well equipped to guard against abuses.
Students who participated in high school athletics and used prescribed opioids because of injuries were found to have about a 40% greater chance later in life of misusing the substances, said Dr. Liz Joy, referring to a 2015 study published by the National Institutes of Health.
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The Dallas Morning News
When the UIL state championships return to Arlington’s AT&T Stadium, instant replay will be back for a second straight year, and it’ll be another opportunity to glance into the potential future of high school football. But as Texas considers joining other states that are already experimenting with broader instant replay, coaches and administrators are weighing the technological and financial challenges of such a system.
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HealthDay News
Childhood obesity may be linked to changes in brain structure that might result in impulsive kids who struggle with problem-solving, a new study reports.
Overweight and obese children tend to have a thinner prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with decision-making and problem-solving.
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STACK
It's a simple formula: The quicker you recover, the more training volume you can handle.
Done right, greater volume/intensity of training results in bigger gains in performance.
Your workouts are only as good as your recovery. If you're not effectively recovering from your workouts, your performance will stagnate or decline.
Recovery is a neurological process.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign via ScienceDaily
Scientists have known for decades that aerobic exercise strengthens the brain and contributes to the growth of new neurons, but few studies have examined how yoga affects the brain. A review of the science finds evidence that yoga enhances many of the same brain structures and functions that benefit from aerobic exercise.
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