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How To... Hit For The Team
Western Arkansas
You need to train yourself to get the most out of every trip to the batter’s box. Your purpose at the plate can and will change with each pitch, position of the runners, strike zone, strike count and how the pitcher is pitching to you.
You need to know what pitch and what location is best for you drive the ball hard. For most players it’s a fast ball,... More 
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How To... Pole Vault
Louisville, Kentucky
Pole-vaulting gives me a sensation that very few have the pleasure of feeling: flying.
For the brief seconds that my feet are off the ground, I soar. As the pole jerks me higher and higher, I pull myself up to the top of the pole and twist my body. With a tremendous push, I throw my body from the pole upside down and I watch the bar travel by... More
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How to:
Louisville, Kentucky
Flip while throwing the ball in:
Leah Mattingly of Javanon Soccer ’95 girls’ team has taken gymnastics for several years and that helps in the full body flip throw-in. She gets a running start, flips her whole body vertically with her head on the soccer ball and lands on both feet in time to send the ball in bounds without mis-stepping. You must keep both feet on the... More
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How To Use Your Head at the Plate.
Western Arkansas
Hitting is one of the most over coached and undertrained skills in sports. It seems that almost every hitting coach has his preferred method of hitting; some insist that theirs is the only way to hit. While there are certain fundamental skills that every hitter has to develop, each hitter is unique. Coaches (and parents) need to understand that there is no one size fits all approach to hitting. The... More
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Understand the Girls Game of Lacrosse
St. Paul, MN
Only a little over a decade ago, Minnesota did not have any lacrosse programs. It wasn’t until three women from the east coast moved to Minnesota and began programs in their communities of Hopkins, St. Louis Park (The Breck School) and Eden Prairie that the sport began in this State. Because of the substantial and quick growth, the Minnesota State High School League sanctioned the sport in 2002. The sport... More
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How To... Sacrifice Bunt
Eastern Oklahoma
The sacrifice bunt is one of those skills that can easily be taught. Unfortunately in the business now we call this the dinosaur, which means the bunt is extinct. Not many young players now practice the sacrifice bunt. But everyone knows that in the last inning of a game, or close to the last inning, when you need to advance a runner into scoring position, it’s highly critical to have... More
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How To Score a Track Meet
Louisville, Kentucky
It is a beautiful day for a track meet. It is about 65 degrees with a slight breeze and the sun is shining, but there are just enough clouds to send a shadow over the athletes as they warm up. Like most track meets, the energy is contagious. Runners, jumpers, pole vaulters, competitors of all field events are stretching and practicing, patiently waiting for those few short seconds when they... More
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How To Use Your Head at the Plate
Western Arkansas
Some experts believe that one of the most difficult tasks to do in the sport is to hit squarely a round ball, moving 80-100 mph toward you, with a rounded bat.
Becoming a successful hitter requires skill, confidence, discipline, experience, sound technique and practice, practice and more practice.
Great hitters have a high baseball IQ. That means, over years of experience, through hard work and with good coaching, successful hitters... More
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The Key to Making a Spare
Reading, Pennsylvania
Bowling is one of the sports where individual performance is crucial to a team’s success. For those kids competing in the sport, they continually hone their skills and technique to improve their game. Most of us have bowled at some time in our lives. Knocking down all ten pins with just one throw of the ball isn’t easy, and picking up a spare is arguably the most difficult roll in... More
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How To: Pick and Roll
Central Indiana
What is sweeter than a spring roll, softer than a toilet roll and looks better than a freshly-baked Kaiser roll? (Let’s get a drum roll please…) That, of course, is the pick-and-roll. The pick-and-roll is one of the most fundamental plays in basketball, and it is commonly featured in most offensive sets.
It is carried out by two players (perhaps a guard/forward combination), and when a team is playing... More
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How To Rush the Passer
Eastern Oklahoma
My rookie year in Seattle, I fractured both of my feet and was placed
on injured reserve. Throughout the season I was responsible for studying successful players and writing reports on what I had studied. The following article is one that I wrote that describes what I learned as I critically studied film on the top pass rushers in the NFL in 2005. The players were: Dwight Freeny and... More
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How To... Count the Lights
Reading, Pennsylvania
A duel is a team event that matches wrestlers by weight. If you win your match, your team receives points for your win. After every weight has wrestled, the team with the most points wins the duel. Tournaments are usually keyed more toward the individuals. A bracket is created consisting of every wrestler at your weight class. That bracket is wrestled until one remains that is your tournament champion. There... More
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How To…Stick The Landing
Central Indiana
Not only does a gymnast need to be limber and extremely flexible, the sport also requires an athlete to have a great deal of balance. From bars to floor exercise to the balance beam to vault, if you can’t maintain your body’s balance, you aren’t going to score very many points with the judges.
Perhaps the most difficult of body balances to maintain is when you’re twisting and... More
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How to Call a Game
Eastern Oklahoma
"Facing third and 12 from the Muskogee 29 yard line, the Roughers lineup in the shotgun with an empty backfield...three receivers are set to the right and Jameel Owens is flanked on the short side of the field....
...Surveying the Union defense, quarterback Trey Cook calls for the snap from center Matt Flusche...oh, there’s a safety blitz, Cook side steps the Redskins’ defender, he scrambles to his right, looking... More
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Senioritis: One Tough Disease
Central Oklahoma
It sneaks up on unsuspecting high school seniors quicker than any mid-term exam or athletic opponent.
It first shows its face in the waning days of winter and comes on like the morning sun in the spring.
It’s Senioritis.
Senioritis is generally classified as an undying desire for high school’s final day to come and the waiting summer to finally arrive. To seniors, the summer... More
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Its Own Community
by: Randy Fisher
Central Kansas -- Family. A simple-sounding word with a myriad of meanings.
People usually think of a family in the traditional...
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Gold Standard
Eastern Oklahoma -- HSSTM: Another state title for the Lady Comets. How does this compare to the others?
Wadsworth: All State Championships...
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Give Thanks for Your Sports
by: Cheryl Hart
Louisville, Kentucky -- From time to time, all athletes need an attitude adjustment. You hear them after a game complaining, “I just stunk out there, and the coach...
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Part-Time Jobs 101: Tips to Help You Get the Job You Want
by: By Elizabeth Crouch, Learn More Indiana
Central Indiana -- Getting a part-time job while you are in high school provides valuable real-world experience and may help you save some money for college. Finding work...
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Chile Pepper Spices Up Cross Country
by: Will Flowers
Western Arkansas -- For some, it's 22 players and 100 yards of pad popping excitement. For others, it's 84 feet of five-on-five with added fines. For hundreds of...
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Lucas DeVilliers
Houston, TX -- Cypress Woods quarterback Lucas DeVilliers is having a break-out season. We caught up with him while nursing an injury to...
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Where Are They Now?
by: Lamonte Garrett
Raleigh - Durham, North Carolina -- The 1988 Millbrook football team could arguably be the best football team that played in the Wildcats stadium.
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Always Ready To Play
by: Renee Gork
Western Arkansas -- Fort Smith Southside’s Grayson Griffin is one of those guys who comes ready to play every Friday night.
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Central Kansas -- The KSHSAA Board of Directors voted in September to permit coaches in basketball, volleyball and football to coach their teams...
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