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Eastern resource officer steps up for middle school athletes
Kokomo Perspective
For the last year-and-a-half, one resource officer at Eastern Middle School has transitioned into a major role in the school’s athletics program, a role where he said he can have a deeper impact on the kids’ lives. Josh Myers, an Eastern grad himself, stepped up to coach the seventh- and eighth-grade boys’ basketball and football teams for the past two seasons. He credited his own father’s love for and involvement in youth sports for wanting to get involved himself.
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.COACHING NEWS
High school athletic directors calm coaches, players, parents through pandemic layoffs
Catholic Review
In addition to a desktop computer in his office, a laptop at home, an iPad, smartphone and multiple weather apps, Kraig Loovis brings another digital tool to his job as athletic director for Mount St. Joseph High School: COVID-19 metrics.
Pete Strickland has the same position at St. John’s Catholic Prep (SJCP) in Buckeystown. Asked about the oddest thing he’s seen during the coronavirus pandemic, he thought back to last fall, when the otherwise fine weather the region experienced was disrupted by good, old-fashioned rainout in girls’ soccer.
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High school football coaches almost 'helpless' in changing recruiting landscape
AL.com
Oxford coach Keith Etheredge summed up the issues many high school football coaches are facing in an effort to get their student-athletes recruited during the 2020-2021 cycle.
“In some ways, you are helpless,” Etheredge said. “What has killed high school recruiting is the transfer portal,” Etheredge said. “A lot of schools are now looking in the portal for transfers who already have experience."
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CIF bylaw change forbids student-athletes from participating in both high school and club sports
KXTV-TV
The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) has updated a bylaw that now forbids student-athletes from participating in both high school sports and club sports for health reasons related to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to a press release issued by the CIF, “athletes and coaches should cohort by team, and refrain from participating with more than one team over the same season or time period.”
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Technology freeing high school coaches to do more
Atlanta Journal-Constition
With automated insights, coaches can tag data and sort it any number of ways. For example, a coach can search for all team assists or 3-point attempts, transition lay-ups and so on. Coaches can find tendencies to create more effective scouting reports and better see which players thrive in certain game situations.
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Texas district's stay-home stance doesn't extend to sports
Austin Chronicle
In the Austin Independent School District, school buildings sit largely empty as the city weathers its worst days to date of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the district's fields, courts, and gymnasiums are buzzing; after a one-week hold on non-varsity athletics, all sports programs are back on, with some teams preparing for state competitions.
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.FITNESS & CONDITIONING
How to prevent overtraining in youth athletes
STACK
The term, "overtraining" frequently gets thrown around by parents, athletes, and coaches. Some individuals have a general understanding of what constitutes overtraining syndrome or what it may even look like, but few understand how to prevent it, particularly in youth athletes.
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3 reasons why swimming is great for musculoskeletal strength
U.S. Masters Swimming
Swimming develops, strengthens, and stabilizes muscles, joints, and connective tissue throughout your body while also building cardiovascular health. In addition, swimming can improve the health of all of your tissues that make up the musculoskeletal system in the following key ways.
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No limit to benefits of exercise when it comes to cardiovascular disease risk, study finds
CNN
It has long been understood that being physically active is good for you, particularly when it comes to preventing things like heart attacks and strokes.
Physical exercise may be even more important for the prevention of cardiovascular disease than previously known — and the more activity the better, a new large study led by the University of Oxford has suggested.
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