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Ava Shmueli Wins NFL National Punt, Pass and Kick Award Representing the Miami Dolphins
by anngaff
posted January 18, 2012 at 6:48pm

Boca Raton resident Ava Shmueli  wins National Punt, Pass and Kick Contest in Baltimore, MD Photo courtesy of Miami Dolphins. via Miami Dolphins press release BALTIMORE, MD – Boca Raton resident Ava Shmueli took home the girl’s 10-11...more

Case Raises Question of Title IX's Application to Private High School
by Title IX Blog
posted January 17, 2012 at 7:19pm

A recently-filed federal lawsuit claims that Poly Prep High School in Brooklyn violated Title IX by responding with deliberate indifference to knowledge that a football coach was sexually abusing his student-athletes. This case is vulnerable to dismissal...more

Golf: 9 year old Karah Sanford wins easily in Girls 11-14 division at Carlton Oaks
by anngaff
posted January 17, 2012 at 6:56pm

Karah Sanford, left, shot rounds of 77-74--151 and crushed the rest of the field in the Girls 11-14 division at Carlton Oaks and came within a shot of the Girls overall winner Okamura. Sanford’s opening round gave her a 17-shot cushion that she wou...more

The End of an Era: When a Child Abandons a Sport
by Sports Girls Play
posted January 17, 2012 at 4:58pm

This is a guest post by Laura Amann My days of gymnastics are over. So are my long hours at the gym. My nervousness and anxiety. It’s all in the past. No more ponytails woven with ribbons, no more glitter spray, no more bleacher analysis. My daught...more

First Winter Youth Olympic Games kick off in Innsbruck
by Pretty Tough
posted January 16, 2012 at 7:17pm

The Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games officially got under way with an Opening Ceremony at the Bergisel stadium, the iconic Olympic venue in the heart of Austria’s Tyrolean capital, Innsbruck. With the snow-capped mountains providing a brea...more

Fired Lesbian Coach and School Reach Settlement
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted January 13, 2012 at 6:15pm

In November, I posted an article about a lesbian high school coach who was fired from her teaching and coaching position. Here is that post.Apparently the coach and the school have reached a settlement agreement. It is unclear from the article what the te...more

Washington basketball signee Katie Collier still battling leukemia, but back on the court
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted January 13, 2012 at 3:27am

King 5 reporter Chris Egan caught up with Seattle Christian senior Katie Collier, who is battling acute promyelocytic leukemia. She recently returned to playing, although it's sporadic and she's remains in treatment. Collier, a 6-foot-3 forward, signed i...more

Softball Tips - Upping Your Focus Level Pays Off
by Softball Performance Blog
posted January 12, 2012 at 1:11pm

  Tonight I was working with one of my top hitting students, a girl named Amy who always draws oohs and ahhs when people watch her swing the bat. She's a very good hitter, better than she herself realizes, I think, and really turned some heads as a ...more

Youth Olympic Games a 'dream come true' for U.S. ski jumper Emilee Anderson
by anngaff
posted January 12, 2012 at 11:12am

via release INNSBRUCK, AUT. — Emilee Anderson has perfect timing. Or maybe it’s simply fate that this 16-year-old from the heart of ski jumping country in the U.S. will make history when she competes Saturday in a sport that has been closed ...more

And now college athletics ‘reform’ season begins
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted January 11, 2012 at 7:22pm

Alabama had barely hoisted the BCS national championship trophy late Monday night when the long-winded explications of the entire college athletic landscape were being churned out. Actually, those missives have been continuing for a good long while. But ...more

Softball Star Jessica Mendoza Conducts Softball Clinic at York
by Jessica Mendoza's Blog
posted January 10, 2012 at 9:38pm

Read this recent article & client testimonial! USA Olympic Star Jessica Mendoza Conducts Softball Clinic at York YORK, PA – The York College softball squad welcomed one of the best softball players in the world to the Grumbacher Center on Su...more

7 Things You Need to Know About College Recruiting
by Softball Performance Blog
posted January 10, 2012 at 9:32pm

Written by Jen Croneberger 1. “It doesn’t take talent to hustle and be on time.” For many coaches, this is the first thing noticed. Who shows up early? Who runs on and off the field EVERY TIME regardless of what others are doing? You ...more

National Pro Fastpitch Announces New Youth Program with 3 Different Ways to Get Involved
by anngaff
posted January 10, 2012 at 10:35am

Nashville, TN - National Pro Fastpitch announced today the establishment of the NPF Official Developmental Partnership Program. The Program is designed to join the professional ranks of owners, players, and staff with the amateur ranks of youth participan...more

Swimming with Olympians in the Mutual of Omaha Breakout Swim Clinic
by Sports Girls Play
posted January 10, 2012 at 1:37am

Two years ago my daughter participated in the Mutual of Omaha Breakout Swim Clinic with Olympians Matt Grevers and Kate Ziegler. She had a great time and talked about it for months. When we got an email last month saying the clinic was coming to the pool ...more

Ban Checking in Male Hockey
by One Sport Voice
posted January 8, 2012 at 12:59am

It is time to ban checking in boy’s and men’s hockey, not just raise the checking age, but get rid of it altogether. I know this won’t be a popular idea. Raising the checking age in boys’ hockey hasn’t been popular either, b...more

Words of Wisdom by Wilk
by One Sport Voice
posted January 7, 2012 at 2:38pm

Today I drove down to my alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus College, with one of my doctoral students to talk with Steve “Wilk” Wilkinson, the pioneering and Hall of Fame (now retired) men’s tennis coach. I’ve written previously about W...more

Update on Lawsuit Filed by Kilgore, TX Lesbian Softball Player and Her Mother
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted January 4, 2012 at 3:22pm

Last January I started the year describing a situation in a Kilgore, TX high school where a lesbian softball player was, according to allegations in her lawsuit against the school, athletic director and coaches, treated outrageously by her coaches. Skye W...more

Is Hockey Player Alex Carpenter A ‘Weapon’?
by The First Line
posted January 2, 2012 at 7:04pm

When I said BC was without a “huge weapon,” aside from repeating the word ‘huge’ twice in two sentences and thus being in need of a thesaurus, was I being inaccurate?  After all, freshman phenom Carpenter is in the top 25 in s...more

Larry Scott: The big win in PAC 12 - Big 10 scheduling agreement is with Olympic sports and women's sports
by anngaff
posted December 30, 2011 at 11:18am

On Wednesday, the PAC-12 and the Big Ten announced an innovative scheduling agreement that will result in teams from each conference playing each other extensively in most sports as early as next year. At the press conference, PAC-12 commissioner L...more

Tucker Center Film Festival Returns in 2012
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted December 29, 2011 at 9:21pm

  The Tucker Center and the University of Minnesota Athletic Department are pleased to announce the return and official 2012 selections of the Tucker Center Film Festival. The festival will take place on January 30, 2012, at TCF Bank Stadium ...more

A story of dedication
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 28, 2011 at 8:40pm

This is the time of year when you get all kinds of year-end retrospectives, such as RunnerSpace’s News of the Year compilation and the top ten Olympics stories of the year from SI’s Brian Cazeneuve. My top story of the year is quite personal....more

Sport Parent Education: Creating a Tipping Point
by One Sport Voice
posted December 27, 2011 at 11:21pm

As part of my work, I do quite a few sport parent workshops (read my previous blogs about sport parents here). The purpose of the workshops is to share evidence-based information with sport parents, so a positive climate for youth athletes is more likely ...more

Benefits Of Being Active
by CPS8910
posted December 26, 2011 at 8:45pm

Benefits of Being Active In this blog, Dr. Mary Gavin give some practical advise when it comes understanding where your children are on the activity spectrum.  Getting up and getting moving would be a perfect New Years Resolution for your family!...more

Cheer Team DQ'd for Having Male Member
by Title IX Blog
posted December 22, 2011 at 2:50pm

As reported in the Bleacher Report, a high school cheerleading squad in Michigan was retroactively disqualified from a competition for violating a league rule banning male athletes from female teams. The article goes on to criticize the Michigan High Scho...more

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