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Don’t Let the Heat Win
This time of year, avoiding the heat can be challenging. To ensure safety while participating in summer sports, you should find an indoor facility or simply wait for cooler weather.
But if you are going to play in the heat there are several things you can do to reduce your risk of experiencing serious health complications and make your time on the field more enjoyable.
Preparation has... More 
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Love for the Lake
When Nate Smith was eight years old, he was the typical Indiana child. Baseball and basketball filled his sporting world and cartoons helped him pass the time.
Then his family moved to a private lake near McCordsville.
“That changed my life,” said Smith, who will be a senior at Mount Vernon High School this fall. “I was hooked the minute I saw the water.”
Smith is now... More
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Jet-Set
As technology has advanced, so has our capacity to use it. Our world is one of change and exchange, where concepts and ideas are swapped in great numbers and at great distances. People all over the world are quickly finding that they have more options available to them than just what is sitting outside their backdoors.
Well, the world of athletics epitomizes this.
In, for example, the relatively... More
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Why does my knee hurt?
You know you’re getting old when you start an article with the phrase, “When I was that age…”, but sometimes it is appropriate. There was a time when the fall season meant football and soccer, winter was for basketball and wrestling, and spring was for baseball and track. Summer was for fun.
Now, it seems that there is no end to a season and it is becoming more... More
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Summer marches on
You can’t spell the word “fundamental” without the word “fun.” When it comes to the area high schools and their summer marching band experiences, that motto rings clearer than a French horn in an empty music hall.
“In June, we look at basic fundamentals and getting through our music book so the kids can take it home and look at it,” Greenwood Band Director Jon Sutton explains. “The two... More
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Teaching more than Tae-Kwon-Do
Many people think of Tae-Kwon-Do as a violent activity. Some think that it is an art form. Very few, though, can take something that is part poetic grace and part deadly combat and turn it into a vessel for helping people.
John Wright, a practicing martial artist for nearly 25 years, has found Tae-Kwon-Do to not only be an instiller of discipline, but a way to give underprivileged children... More
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The Elbow's Connected to... Pain
Here we are, in the swing of high school spring sports and athletes competing in baseball, softball, tennis, golf, and field events like discus and shot put are putting their arms to the test. The elbow joint can be at risk in these athletes, because of the stress caused by the repetitive motions of throwing an object like a softball or swinging a tennis racket.
The most common elbow... More
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Not Just Fun and Games
Past the pom poms, smiles, and energetic cheers and chants, injuries are common with high school cheerleading. Although cheerleading is often times not considered to be a sport, let me assure you that it is a competitive sport and it has injury rates comparable to other sports.
A 13-year follow-up study observed cheerleaders between the ages of 5 and 18 years old. The study reported injuries to the lower... More
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Born to Run
Randy and Shannon Wise would stand in the backyard of their home in Morgantown, Ind., and watch in amazement as their 2-year-old daughter, Katie, ran around in circles for hours on end.
“She would run around and say in this little voice, ‘Look, mom and dad, I run like the wind,’” Randy says.
Nearly a dozen years later, Katie Wise still runs like the wind.
Now an eighth grader... More
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Lacrosse Tournament Bonds Community
Paul Borchelt has seen a lot of talent play for the Brebeuf boys lacrosse program since he became its first and only head coach a decade ago.
But Borchelt has never been more optimistic about a squad than he is about this season’s team.
That’s because the roster is rich with tournament-tested players and experienced leadership.
The Brebeuf boys lacrosse program returns 13 seniors, including captains Pat Ferrell, Seth Biggerstaff,... More
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Back to School
Running track in an interscholastic high school environment is a thing of the past for Emery Davis.
The 20-year-old former Ben Davis sprinter ran the 100-meter, the 200, the 4X100 and the 4X400 in his heyday and is now a sophomore criminal justice major at Ivy Tech.
But he’s more than just a college student/track club member these days. He’s back in the high school realm as an assistant boys... More
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Getting Back on Track
Many athletes experience lower back pain at some time during their careers. Most of the time it’s not serious and they quickly recover. However, there are times when lower back pain should not be ignored and a proper diagnosis should be made in order to receive the correct treatment.
Although back pain in athletes can come from many different causes, such as muscle strains or ligament sprains, sometimes it... More
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Game Plan Spirit
It’s been a year of firsts for the New Palestine cheerleading squad.
The team won the Hoosier Heritage Conference cheer competition, which it had never placed in before, and it was also the first time in school history the team made it to the state championships. It finished second in Class 3A to Bishop Dwenger.
How big was it for the rest of the New Pal high school... More
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Winter Sports Rewind
Girls Basketball
If you had a nickel for every time the Heritage Christian girls basketball team won a state title during the past three years, you’d have…well…15 cents.
The Eagles finished their regular season at 27-1, defeating Oak Hill in the IHSAA Class 2A championship game, 53-31. Rick Risinger’s team was kicking on all cylinders throughout the year, and Heritage Christian will only lose one player on the... More
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Overtraining in high school athletics
As the spring sports season approaches, athletic trainers are working to prevent athletic injuries. Athletes who are injured as a result of overtraining are always a concern.
Overtraining commonly occurs as one season ends and another begins. Most likely, there is an imbalance between training and recovery, exercise and exercise capacity, and stress and stress tolerance.
Symptoms can include recurring illness (colds and flu), fatigue, lack... More
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Fuel for thought: how to survive rising gas prices
by: Erik Deckers
We’ve all felt the sting of higher gas prices over the last several months. And parents of high school athletes are feeling it more than...
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Seize Your Moments
by: Barry Krauss
As a kid growing up in Pompano Beach, Fla., I had, like most kids, dreams of making the touchdown catch that wins the backyard football...
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The Chance(s) of a Lifetime
by: Bill Benner
Later this month, Lucas Oil Stadium (LOS) will welcome its first paying customers.
I think it’s wonderful that those spectators will be entering to...
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While most fall sports are just getting started in late August, your teams are often at the midway point. Since...
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Well Traveled
by: Bill Benner
Even as the RCA Dome’s Teflon roof is prepared for deflation, Jerry Oliver feels no sense of, well, deflation.
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Adding some Hart
by: Dave McConnell
John Hart has taken the head coaching job one of the highest profile football
programs in the state at Warren...
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How To: Pick and Roll
by: Bob Herman
What is sweeter than a spring roll, softer than a toilet roll and looks better than a freshly-baked Kaiser roll?...
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