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High School Sports

Should Club Teams Replace High School Sports?

The Kalamazoo Gazette took a pretty cool tact with their Opinion/Editorial section in the Saturday edition. The issue:
Should high school-sponsored sports be replaced by club teams?
Who better to answer that question that high school students. The Gazette turned to three students for answers:

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Book Friday Night Lights Banned in Beaumont

Progress Avenue’s mission is to cover community and charity efforts in sports. I’m convinced that the root of these efforts lies in inspiration and in the strength of our close community of family, friends, colleagues, etc.
One of my favorite movies is “Friday Night Lights.” The main reason is because of the inspirational halftime [...]

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A Sign of Real Sportsmanship

One of the best sports stories of the week comes out of Kansas City. As reported by KMBC.com, “a freshman at Benton High School in St. Joseph, Mo., is being treated like a VIP after scoring the only touchdown for his team in a losing game this week.” Matt Ziesel, 15, has Down [...]

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J-Mac’s Coach Gets Speaking Gig for Charity Event

It seems as if Jason “J-Mac” McElwain is renewing his fame thanks in large part to an appearance in a Gatorade spot. The YouTube clip of his amazing shooting performace three years ago is again making its rounds through the social networking sphere.
Now, a Rochester outlet is reporting that J-Mac’s high school coach, Jim [...]

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High School Team Sporting Pink Unis Tonight to Raise Awareness for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund

In Pennsylvania, Jared Stout reports the Blairsville High School girls’ basketball team will wear pink uniforms tonight to raise awareness for the Kay Yow Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Cancer Fund.
Blairsville head coach Graig Marx said that he had seen colleges “use the pink uniforms before to help raise money for cancer research and thought this [...]

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Positive Coaching Alliance’s Thompson Shares His Take on 100-0 Dallas Prep Game

With all the recent buzz surrounding the Covenant School’s 100-0 drubbing of The Dallas Academy in a girl’s high school basketball game in Dallas, Texas, Positive Coaching Alliance Executive Director Jim Thompson offers his take on the game.
Under the header, “No Winners in Dallas’ 100-0 Basketball Game,” Thompson writes in this month’s Positive Coaching Alliance [...]

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After 100-0 Victory, Texas High School Gets Case of Winner’s Remorse

In Texas, private Covenant School defeated Dallas Academy 100-0 in a high school girls basketball game on January 13, and the AP reported yesterday that Covenant School now “has a case of blowout remorse.” The Covenant School is now “trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin [...]

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High School Student Wins Young Heroes Award for Suicide Awareness Program

The Jewish Exponent’s Aaron Passman profiled Ellen Brown, who was chosen as one of 60 winners of this year’s Commerce Bank Young Heroes Award, given by the National Liberty Museum. The annual award recognizes those between 8 and 18 who have made a positive contribution to society through charity and activism, as well [...]

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Seattle-area High School Students Complete Unique Graduation Project

In Seattle, Leslie Ann Jones reported that Sara Markwith and Rachel Godfred, “both 17-year-old co-captains” of the Mercer Island High School varsity swimming team, “swam all the way around” Mercer Island “aided only by wetsuits and flippers.”
Markwith and Godfred said that students “must complete a ‘culminating project’ of their own creation in order to graduate,” [...]

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Michigan Considers Re-Aligning High School Sports Seasons

In Michigan, John Morris reports that the Michigan High School Athletic Association “is considering a new concept of using four partially overlapping sports seasons.”
MHSAA officials are “hearing of problems and concerns arising from the change in holding boys and girls basketball during the same season.” This comes after “a court-ordered switch of several high [...]

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