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Athletic Trainer York Ny
1,080 wordsAn Athletic trainer can work for high schools, colleges, universities, and also for professional sports teams. Athletic Trainers prevent, examine, and treat injuries of athletes. Before and after games and practices they also treat minor injuries such as wrapping bandages around sprang ankles or wrists or spray an antiseptic on an knee that has an abrasion. Trainers do not work alone, they work with the team coaches, physicians, and the equipment manager. Responsibilities Athletic trainers work ...
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Eating Disorders Among Athletes
2,017 wordsThe Growing Problem of Eating Disorders Among Athletes Most people would expect athletes to know the latest fitness and health information. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Eating disorders affect male and female athletes all over the world, causing problems in their performance as well as impairing their health. Moreover, pressure from coaches, who should be the most concerned with the health and performance of their athletes, can be the main cause in the development of eating disord...
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Professional Athletes Youth Sports
1,162 words... orts produces positive effects to at risk youth. Researchers found an increase in self worth and self esteem, while boredom, delinquent behavior, and hopelessness decreased. However, the effects were short term. A study by Alan Colthart found that at risk youth did participate in fewer recreational activities than non-at-risk-children. One cannot conclude that sports prevent students from being at risk, but that at risk children actually have less opportunity to participate. It actually reit...
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Part Of The Game Deviant Behavior
950 wordsNature always has a way of balancing itself out, and in my opinion, deviant behavior is no exception. For every report we read about how playing in a sports program has kept someone off the streets and out of a life of crime, we come across another about excessive violence or drug use by an athlete. Sports definitely discourage off the field problems, but they also bring about a whole new set of on the field problems. Playing sports brings out the competitive sides of many athletes. To most athl...
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Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson
1,174 wordsThe treatment of minority athletes, particularly African Americans has been an issue in sports for decades. When a colored person played a so called white sport 50 tears ago they had to overcome many challenges from the public. Many people believe that discrimination is not a problem anymore, but many disagree and say it is. In 1947 Jackie Robinson walked out on a baseball field to play with the Brooklyn dodgers as the first ever African American to play in a major league baseball game. He was c...
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Background Checks Forty Dollars
797 wordsChild molestation is a problem that is highly evident in youth sport leagues. Molesters are often found in these leagues because of the many targets for molestation present in the leagues. People involved in the youth sport leagues do not detect this problem because the type of molestation that occurs in these leagues is not the typical type that everyone thinks occurs. Not all molestation is the violent and forceful type that most everybody imagines. Most of the sexual abuse that occurs is call...
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Dry Land Physical Fitness
1,554 wordsThere is not much of a life for swimmers. Imagine practicing seven days a week, two times a day for four hours each time in the pool. This is an ongoing process if one desires to become a nationally ranked swimmer. Because swimmers swim all year, their work-outs build up as their competition approaches making it harder to have time of their own. When they get closer to the big meet, swimmers put in more time at the pool and weight room. Since physical fitness along with preparation becomes essen...
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Thousand Dollars Las Vegas
2,414 words... ed outside of a restaurant around one o'clock in the morning for alcohol related actions. The driver of the car, Golf Hangartner, was the starting center for the Texas A& M team. He was charged with driving under the influence. The passenger of the car, Cole Smith, was cited for intoxication. The police were called to the scene after an argument ensued between two white males and the black passengers of a second car that was in front of them. In a statement made by a police officer that ...
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Taking Steroids Risks Involved
1,636 wordsIn today's athletics, athletes are getting bigger, stronger, and faster. Whether an athlete plays high school or professional sports, it is getting harder for athletes to compete at a high level with all the competition. When an athlete is not good enough to make the team or is on a team and does not play much the athlete will do just about anything to improve themselves. Many athletes spend numerous hours practicing and lifting weights trying to get better at their sport, and still they lack wh...
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Leadership Roles Of Team Captains
1,661 wordsEffective Leadership Roles Captains of sports teams are given the stereotype that they are the most athletic player on the team, scoring the most goals and handling the ball best. In truth, captains have a lot of work they have to do that doesn't even involve playing the sport. Captains are the most looked at player of the game; other players, younger kids and coaches look to them to set examples. They have to set examples in every aspect of the game; athleticism might be part of their job but i...
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Civil Rights Movement Color Of Their Skin
1,944 wordsRooney Rule Nowadays, a normal person in America feels like Alice in Wonderland, because of many social policies in this country are marked with such degree of irrationality that it makes the whole objective reality grossly illogical. The affirmative action policy is the best example of how people, who strive to eliminate racism, base their vision of future on establishment the racial selection, as the most fundamental principle of insuring equality. The same left-wing Liberals, who never get ti...
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Assistant Coach Head Coach
1,530 wordsThough Barry Switzer s career may have not always been glamorous, it was always successful. Switzer grew up in Arkansas, but will always be connected with Oklahoma. He is one of the best coaches to ever coach college football, and reached a hundred wins faster than any other coach. Barry had a different style of coaching on and off the field. He has a College National Championship and a Super Bowl ring, which can t be said by many coaches. Due to his great success, he is still hailed by Sooner f...
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University Of Minnesota Athletic Departments
2,078 wordsWith millions of dollars in merchandising and television contracts at stake, colleges have a lot of money riding on the recruitment, education, and performance? both on and off the field of college athletes. Colleges lure the athletes to their school, and make sure they meet the eligibility requirements when there. In order for athletes to be eligible to play in college they must attain a minimum of a 2. 0 GPA in 11 designated courses, and earn a combined 700 on the SAT? s. Athletes must also me...
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Long Term Effects Sammy Sosa
2,758 wordsCreatine in NCAA Baseball Mark McGwire uses it. Sammy Sosa uses it. The Atlanta Braves have tubs of it in their locker room. Then why does Scott Carnahan, Linfield College? s varsity baseball coach and coach of the 1994 U. S. A. Olympic baseball team emphasize, ? I will not participate in distributing it to any of my players? ? It is Creatine and it has become a health concern among most NCAA baseball coaches in Oregon. Creatine is a substance that is naturally produced in every human being. Eve...
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Amount Of Money Student Athletes
2,472 wordsExploitation of College Athletes John Paye was a star quarterback at Stanford University in the 1980 s. In his senior season at Stanford, the football team had a record of eight wins and three losses. The year after Paye graduated, the Cardinal s record fell to four wins and seven losses. Economist Roger Noll of Stanford University estimates that Stanford s net operating revenues declined by $ 400, 000 the year after Paye departed, yet Paye only received a scholarship valued at $ 17, 000 (Shrops...
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Women In Sports Female Coaches Health
423 wordsGender in sports has been an issue ever since sports were invented. In the early years sports were played by the men, and the women were to sit on the sidelines and watch. Things have begun to change in the last century. Women are being allowed to participate now, and womens teams, events, organizations and leagues are popping up all over the place. This includes professional leagues such as the WNBA, and the LPGA. Women in sports have become a big business. Women have been participating in prof...
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Lose Weight Weight Loss
1,392 wordsHigh School Wrestling has always been thought of as the hardest and most enduring sport that takes place in high school. Only the toughest Jocks try out, and the weak are quickly discarded. Young women showing school spirit come to watch as the arms of young men in spandex are mingled about. During matches, coaches yell and scream at their young apprentices while they desperately battle to pin their opponent of equal weight. But, how equally are the two enemies matched? How much weight did one p...
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Hoop Dreams Jackie Robinson
1,940 wordsThe poor living conditions of many black people living in the United States have created a desperate situation in which many black youths are pushed and pulled into the world of athletics, most often with disastrous consequences. A survey of black youths found that 66 % believed they could make a living playing pro-sports. 1 The fame of superstars such as Jackie Robinson, Michael Jordan, and other successful black athletes has led to an overemphasis on sports in the black community. In reality, ...
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York William Morrow Super Bowl
1,482 words12. Anderson, Dave, The Football Story, New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1985. THEY CALL IT COACHING, VINCE LOMBARDI ONCE SAID, BUT IT IS TEACHING. Coaching is not only showing a team what to do, but explaining to them why it is so. Each game, the coach is accountable for getting all 11 players on the field working as one unit. Hes responsible for preparing his team for battle each week and for making sure his game-time decisions are flawless. The coach is not only the head of the team...
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Psychological Factors Significant Impact
3,304 wordsABSTRACT Whether it be at a collegiate or professional level, organizations have been faced with public pressure to be successful. The selection of appropriate personnel is one means for doing this. Although coaches are experts in identifying the physical characteristics needed for success in their field; they lack the skills necessary to asses the psychological factors that have been proven to have a significant impact on athletic performance. The identification, quantification and implementati...
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