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Rural Schools, Medical Facilities Partner for Athletic Training Services
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Michael Popke,
April 2013
Athletic trainer Jodie Smith has logged more than 2,500 miles in a single month, traveling between eight schools in and around Billings, Mont. Seven of those schools are K-12 facilities, with the number of high school students at each one ranging from 21 to almost 300. ...
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Demand to Close Gap Between Public, Non-Public Schools Increases
By
Michael Popke,
December 2012
High school sports in Tennessee reached a milestone in 2012, marking 15 years of separate postseason tournaments for public and non-public schools.
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School Board Member Paul Butler Talks About Ending Football
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Paul Steinbach,
December 2012
When Paul Butler called it a moral imperative for fellow members of the Dover, N.H., school board to at least consider discontinuing football in light of mounting research on long-term brain injuries, he did so during a meeting largely attended by empty chairs.
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Athletic Directors, Coaches Cope with Teachers’ Strikes
By
Michael Popke,
November 2012
Bob Geiger, a physical education instructor and girls’ cross country coach at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago’s Near West Side neighborhood, knew it was likely that Chicago Public Schools teachers would go on strike in September.
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High School Bass Fishing Hooking a New Breed of Student-Athlete
By
Michael Popke,
September 2012
Elden May is a busy guy. But the sports information director at the Kentucky High School Athletic Association says with a smile that he can always find time to talk about bass fishing.
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More States Accommodating High School Wheelchair Racers
By
Michael Popke,
August 2012
Last October, Jordan Houdeshell won the first wheelchair cross country title in Iowa history, completing a 5,000-meter course with a time of 17:04, as enthusiastic spectators stretched 150 yards along either side of the finish line.
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States Seek to Ensure Student-Athlete Safety in High Heat
By
Michael Popke,
July 2012
July 26 marks the one-year anniversary of what Douglas Casa, a leading expert on exertional heat illness, called “the worst week in the last 35 years in terms of athlete deaths.”
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Athletes Saving Athletes Trains Teammates to Protect Each Other
By
Michael Popke,
June 2012
When one of his teammates on the Santa Fe Christian boys’ lacrosse team was knocked out by a wayward lacrosse ball during a January practice, Grant Lucier knew exactly what to do.
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Live Streaming of Prep Sporting Events Makes Slow But Sure Progress
By
Michael Popke,
May 2012
Locals in southeastern Louisiana call it the “Battle on the River,” the annual football rivalry between Destrehan and Hahnville high schools.
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High School Sports Teams Stretch Out with Yoga
By
Michael Popke,
February 2012
When baseball practice begins next month at Jeffersonville (Ind.) High School, Matt Rigsby will find out whether the optional once-a-week yoga classes he has been offering his players since September have paid off.
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