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For the love of the game?
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 20, 2010 at 5:59pm

What is the purpose of youth sports? At what age do you feel it is appropriate for children to actually ‘train’ for a specific sport? What about travel teams? Or ’stacking teams’ to win the division? These questions literally keep me up at night. ...more

Paying youth athletes for performance
by One Sport Voice
posted January 16, 2010 at 12:47pm

A colleague forwarded me an e-news from sports-media.org that contained an article titled Cash For Goals in Youth Soccer: Adults Gone Wild. When I give parent education clinics as part of a research-based educational program I helped develop called Pare...more

Advice for Sport Parents: How to help your athlete make tough decisions
by One Sport Voice
posted January 6, 2010 at 12:32pm

Recently one of my hockey teammates asked me advice on how to handle a situation with her 14 year old teenage son. The son is a high level gymnast who has potential for a collegiate scholarship. He must travel out state to attend meets at his level, a...more

Winter Olympic Word Search
by Sports Girls Play
posted December 29, 2009 at 1:11pm

I have multiple web sites, and one of my other sites is dedicated solely to kids printable activities. In celebration of the upcoming Winter Olympics I just created a Winter Olympic Sports Word Search and of course, I had to share it with my Sports Girls ...more

My son wants to play football…
by Draft Day Suit
posted December 21, 2009 at 6:44pm

His father and I have spent the past few years making him listen to us cheer and hoot at the television during football games. We’ve shouted and jeered and made sure he understood what was going on whenever was possible. We pause the DVR, replay, walk ...more

What a sport girl wants for Christmas…
by Fair Game News
posted December 21, 2009 at 6:26pm

By Katie Culver 1. A legitimately equal opportunity to develop athletic skills and play sports — from the start. This means: girls should be handed a ball (instead of a doll or toy purse) as soon as they can hold something. They should be dressed appr...more

Laura Dekker Sails On
by Draft Day Suit
posted December 20, 2009 at 9:08pm

Laura Dekker, 14, was born on a boat and apparently still just wants to sail. Go ahead and tell her she can’t. She’ll do it anyway. Authorities in Dekker’s hometown of Utrecht, Netherlands, told her in October that she couldn’t attempt the saili...more

Interview with Deb Hartwig - Coaching Youth Softball
by Softball Performance Blog
posted December 4, 2009 at 5:40pm

Deb Hartwig, sought-after softball instructor and clinician. In this podcast, Coach Marc interviews Deb Hartwig, sought-after softball instructor and clinician. During this interview, Coach Marc interviews Deb on issues related to coaching youth softb...more

Bystander responsibility: When to step in?
by After Atalanta
posted December 4, 2009 at 1:34pm

I was part of an interesting dinner party conversation the other night about the responsibility of being a gym goer, a gym owner, or a gym employee. The talk was about one's responsibility when seeing someone who is doing something dangerous. Though we me...more

Sports for girls are more than play in Bangladesh, they’re tool for progress (even survival)
by Fair Game News
posted November 23, 2009 at 2:16pm

Girls playing handball in Bangladesh By Laura Pappano Sport is a tool for social, political and economic equality. In Bangladesh — where girls face routine physical violence, child marriage, and are denied the same access to education as boys — tha...more

Best reason to Tweet
by Chantelle Says
posted November 20, 2009 at 1:28pm

The other day I was having a conversation with my best friend Willie, trying to explain to him why he needed to get on Twitter, i.e. my latest addiction. I felt I was providing a good argument but he wasn't really buying anything I was saying. Well, tw...more

Tragic loss for a young player in San Antonio, South Texas Hoyas spearhead support
by HoopFeed.com
posted November 17, 2009 at 5:35pm

While the nation’s top women’s basketball teams prepare for a showcase at San Antonio’s AT&T Center, a young player in the city is coping with the loss of her biggest fan. Saturday morning, the mother of an 11 year-old player for the South Texa...more

New Boxer Aims for 2016 Olympics
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 14, 2009 at 2:05pm

This is probably one of the most exciting things I have had the honor of doing recently. A few weeks ago a young girl came to the gym and told Bonnie that she wanted to compete. She is nine years old. Her father brought her every time the boxing team m...more

Where are the moms? Why daughters need them coaching youth sports.
by Fair Game News
posted November 12, 2009 at 12:03pm

By Emilie Liebhoff It bugs me. I drive by the fields in my town – and I only see men coaching the soccer teams. Don’t get me wrong. It’s wonderful when dads share quality time with their daughters and sons. But where are the moms? Even in the ba...more

Being physically active when young has important implications for the prevention of osteoporosis in old age
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 11, 2009 at 5:53pm

At a recent Tucker Table, colleagues in the School of Kinesiology outlined some old pervasive myths and new research paradigms pertaining to bone health. Bone health has typically been constructed as a “female issue” when linked with the female athl...more

Getting past “I QUIT”
by Sports Girls Play
posted November 10, 2009 at 6:54pm

One of the hardest things for parents and coaches to hear kids say is “I QUIT” especially, when the athlete’s desire to quit is sudden. So, what’s a parent to do? This is a situation I have found myself in a few times, but most recently with my y...more

Don’t just focus on why girls drop out of sports — see why they stay and play
by Fair Game News
posted November 3, 2009 at 6:38pm

By Molly Hellerman It doesn’t matter to me where you play soccer — grass, dirt, turf, parking lot, or gym floor. I have trained girls on each surface who have found their passion for the game. And yet, there is a serious opportunity gap that bother...more

Connecticut boy calls state field hockey policy into question
by Title IX Blog
posted November 3, 2009 at 6:10pm

The Hartford Courant recently profiled a middle school field hockey player in Avon, Connecticut, named Blake Armistead. Though he has been allowed to play on the girls' team in middle school, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference does not a...more

Promoting positive youth development through physical activity
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted October 27, 2009 at 2:03pm

Maureen Weiss, Ph.D., and Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D professors in Kinesiology and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, published a paper titled, Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Physical Activity, in the September 20...more

SI for Kids: Basic lessons in gender, sport
by Sports, Media & Society
posted October 22, 2009 at 12:55pm

At the UM Tucker Center lecture Monday night on women's sports and social media, I suggested that the primary function of mediated/spectator sports in U.S. culture is to reinforce gender norms (apologies to Noam Chomsky). It starts early. Just look at SI ...more

LaVoi’s 3C’s of Effective Coaching
by One Sport Voice
posted October 17, 2009 at 9:39pm

If there is one theoretical framework that can easily be applied to helping coaches be more effective, it is the motivational framework of the Self-Determination Theory (SDT). SDT posits that human beings have 3 essential needs: the need for relatedness...more

It’s just one meet – Making the decision to compete or not
by Sports Girls Play
posted October 17, 2009 at 12:57pm

In the world of youth sports it is so easy to get caught up in the emotion and get into the mindset that every competition, game, or match is the most important event. What if the athlete is injured, sick or physically unprepared for the competition? How ...more

Health & Nutrition: Pretty Tough Podcasts
by Balanced Health and Nutrition
posted October 16, 2009 at 7:24pm

Know teen athletes? Listen to my latest podcast on meals and meal timing with @PrettyTough http://ping.fm/qMetv I’m recording dozens of podcasts with Pretty Tough on sports nutrition. This is so important because female athletes have important nutrit...more

Tales from the Tee – Better than a Barbie
by Sports Girls Play
posted October 14, 2009 at 1:54pm

I just had to chuckle when I read the latest entry at Women on Course’s Tales from the Tee blog. Author Carolyn Luepkes talks about how she got her 6 year old granddaughter hooked on playing golf – and how well her granddaughter picked it up. I just ...more

Throwing it back: 12 year old girl sues over milestone baseball
by Pretty Tough
posted October 9, 2009 at 7:38pm

A 12-year-old Florida girl who grabbed a historic home run ball hit by Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard over the summer has her prize back after suing the team for its return. According to the AP, the July home run against the Florida Marlins ...more

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