Desiree Linden has a big year ahead, racing the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials, the Boston Marathon, and perhaps the Olympics, too. Here’s how—and why—she plans to do it.
The rash of hamstring injuries sidelining Bucs wide receivers over the past two weeks is a trend coach Bruce Arians said he will have to look into after the team lost two more Sunday in a 38-17 victory over the Lions.
One week after losing Mike Evans to a hamstring injury, Chris Godwin and Scotty Miller left with the same injury and did not return. Afterward, Arians admitted that perhaps he’s been running his receivers too much.
“We’ll be talking with our sports science people about it,” Arians said. “Maybe I’ve overworked them in practice, the receivers, because we need the reps. Our quarterbacks need the reps, so we run them this time of the year more than I would probably like to, but we need the reps.”
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Imagine the impact on first-year college student-athletes in highly competitive programs if you could teach them resilience – if they learned skills to cope with high expectations, challenging academic courses, rigorous training and physical injuries, homesickness and even the stressors of life beyond college.
In newly published research, a unique and expanding program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been shown to improve decision-making and emotional awareness, lower perceived stress and build resilience among diverse and sometimes at-risk college athletes, according to survey data reported by the student participants, compared to a control group of student-athletes. Part of the research was supported by funding in 2017 from the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Innovations in Research and Practice Grant Program, which is designed to improve the psychosocial well-being and mental health of the student-athlete.
“Participants gained skills key to victory on and off the field, including a sense of belonging, persistence, leadership and the ability to negotiate for the resources they need,” says lead author Genevieve Chandler, a mental health nurse and UMass Amherst nursing professor who developed the innovative program from studying the effects of resilience for two decades.
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… Some players start their pregame rituals long before the game starts, like women’s volleyball sophomore setter Devon Chang, who said before she even starts warmups, she prepares for matches with a shower.
“I like to shower right before matches, when I put on my jersey and get ready for the game, I like to be nice and clean, do my hair,” Chang said. “The shower also clears my mind and gets me ready for the game.”
Redshirt senior forward Anika Rodriguez of UCLA women’s soccer said she also gets ready to take the field with a specific action.
“If I step over the (sideline), I clap, just to reset before each half,” Rodriguez said. “I feel like I need to reset before each half and the clap does that.”
… That weekend was our first full-scale experience on the youth baseball travel circuit, a baseball business that presents kids as young as seven with a chance to compete at a theoretically higher level of competition by participating in regular tournaments. A key part of the US’s $15bn youth sports industry, these travel teams often come with hefty price tags that automatically excludes many families. It was a contrast to the league we had played in the previous summer. There, my son was selected to a team of the best players in our local baseball league. We participated in three tournaments that were sweet, community-based annual events. Kids ran the snack shacks, there were trophy presentations for the winners and plenty of local pride was on show. The whole thing was so innocent it felt like it was played to the soundtrack of John Fogerty’s Centerfield.
… [Sandy] Schneider agrees there is an ever-increasing amount of girls ahead of the curve, with one primary impetus.
“They’re going to be better because they play year-round, and they’re playing more games,” said Schneider, a WIAA Hall of Fame member.
And many of them play a lot, starting at younger ages.
Select/AAU girls basketball appears to be at an all-time fervor. Mo Hines with Seattle-based Tree of Hope — the Northwest’s only girls program with NIKE Elite Youth Basketball League (EYBL) teams (U-16 and U-17) — coaches a group of eighth-graders who played almost 90 games last year.
… Bio-banding is the process where players are grouped based on maturational qualities rather than chronological age and has become a popular and controversial topic in youth sport. The theory is that bio-banding results in a greater quality of practice and potentially a reduced risk of injury. However, like many research articles that are released, they forget to question the most important part of any intervention – the athlete. Luckily, the authors of this study have you covered, as the primary aim of this one was to investigate youth players within Premier League academies and their experiences of bio-banded tournaments.
The criticism from an anonymous peer reviewer caught Matthew Heath by surprise.
The University of Western Ontario kinesiology professor had submitted a study on the cognitive benefits of exercise, involving seven men and five women. But the inclusion of women, the reviewer argued, was a mistake, “due to cognitive and physiological differences in the menstrual cycle.” To avoid this complication, women should have been excluded from the study.
Heath disagreed – so he decided to investigate this claim. In a study published last month, Heath, undergraduate research student Kennedy Dirk and kinesiology professor Glen Belfry tested the effects of exercise on cognition in women at different stages of their menstrual cycles.
The results, which appear in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, found no differences linked to hormonal fluctuations. That’s good news for Heath (whose original study was eventually published despite the reviewer’s objections), but it highlights a continuing challenge in exercise research: An overwhelming number of studies either omit women completely or make the mistake of assuming that women are, as physiologist Stacy Sims puts it, simply “small men.”
The Revolution might not have the Boston-area stadium the club so strongly desires, but a newly-opened $35 million training facility represents a major step forward.
Unveiled on Monday, the new facility — built on 68 acres of land behind Gillette Stadium in Foxborough — provides an all-around upgrade to the team’s capabilities. Having previously carved out a smaller profile within the existing facilities at the stadium, the Revolution now have a training space to call their own.
Three natural-grass fields and an indoor facility (which includes everything from locker rooms to team offices to even an on-site barbershop) sits on the 68-acre plot of land. Of that, 44 acres of the property has been labeled as “preserved land,” a stated commitment to minimizing disruption to the local ecosystem. The address of the facility is officially listed “1776 Revolution Way.”
Popular sports analytics provider Synergy Sports Technology was acquired by Atrium Sports, the companies announced Monday.
The combination creates a company with a combined value of $100 million, according to a person familiar with negotiations.
The deal will allow Synergy to access Atrium’s platform of comprehensive data and advanced automated video production, create new content and offer more commercial opportunities.
Sports specialization and not following the youth sport participation recommendations may increase the chance of overuse injuries in soccer and volleyball.
There are numerous studies in the literature investigating factors of significance for outcome after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Physical factors, such as incidence of giving way, quadriceps muscle strength and number of additional knee injuries at the time of ACL reconstruction and subsequent arthroscopy, as well as psychosocial factors, for example fear of re-injury and health locus of control have been found to affect the outcome after ACL reconstruction. It is likely that a variety of interacting factors affect the outcome after ACL injury. Different variables are probably of importance for different time periods, i.e. short-, intermediate- and long-term outcome, after ACL injury.
We have been working on a large prospective study at the Sports Surgery Clinic and results will be published very soon but in the paper I am discussing here..
The aim of this study was to investigate factors of significance for the intermediate outcome after ACL injury evaluated by the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS). The factors examined in the study included gender, age, stable personality traits, associated meniscus and/or articular cartilage injuries, treatment (non-operative or reconstructive surgery), additional subsequent trauma to the ACL-injured knee, and activity level before injury.
When a sports injury is unlikely to heal with traditional non-surgical treatments, such as rest, bracing and physical therapy, a doctor may recommend a regenerative medicine treatment. This broad category includes treatments such as platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy or stem cell therapy. Dr. Kristin Oliver, a partner at Bluetail Medical Group, has teamed up with Bellin Health Titletown Sports Medicine & Orthopedics to offer this cutting-edge treatment to our patients in Northern and Central Wisconsin. Dr. Oliver is a National Leader in Orthopedic Regenerative Medicine having extensively published and lectured on this alternative approach to treating sports medicine injuries.
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Le Champion is one of the largest sports clubs in the Netherlands with 60 sports events and 200,000 participants each year. The organization has data, but does not do enough with it now. This should be possible, it turned out after a good conversation, together with the other initiators of this event. During the event it quickly became apparent that the running data contains a lot of useful information and the participants in the Sport Data Challenge were also able to show clearly. They came up with impressive ideas to improve the events and marketing of Le Champion.
A golden generation of quarterbacks are now in their late 30s and early 40s. Who should press on for glory and who should call it a day?
The NFL’s old guard is nearing the end. Advances in training, sleep science and nutrition – not to mention the expansion of the league’s passing rules – allow veteran quarterbacks to play into their late 30s and beyond, but time always wins, eventually. Peyton Manning was the first to go. Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Philip Rivers and Peyton’s younger brother, Eli, will soon follow him. Below, we look at what the future holds for the four veterans.