Entries for May 2016

31

Coaches education, infused with the core values of educational athletics, is a necessity, not a luxury.

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27

This nation must awaken to the reality that physical literacy is as important to our future as reading and writing have been in our past.

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24

It has been a brilliant blend of successes and failures and wins and losses that work together in school sports to help form healthy, happy adults.

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20
The positive educational outcomes of interscholastic athletics do not happen by chance. 

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17

We will be digging deeper into the reports . . .  but we already see one suspected theme is being confirmed: more concussions reported for girls than for boys.

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Posted in: Health & Safety
13

During the 2016-17 school year, there will be two new opportunities for MHSAA member schools to consider with respect to cooperative programs.

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10
Data from the most recent fall and winter seasons tends to demonstrate that schools in the pilot programs reported more concussions than non-pilot schools . . .

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Posted in: Health & Safety
06

New for 2016-17 is that schools may join the MHSAA at the 6th-grade level and up (not 7th). This change . . . has three obvious benefits:

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From the Director is the official MHSAA Blog which will touch on pertinent school sports topics periodically throughout the school year from various MHSAA Staff.