High School Sports Teams Stretch Out with Yoga

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.

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. The head coach appears confident, despite initial skepticism from team members and their parents. "I think a lot of parents thought we were going to sit around a campfire and meditate for an hour," Rigsby says. "But 95 percent of the kids came out of yoga class that first day saying it was the hardest workout they've done."

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