News Coverage

By Kristen Dieffenbach, PhD, CC-AASP – Coaching Educator – West Virginia University The June 8, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated features an article entitled “I Want My Body Back” by George Dohrmann. It is a long overdue look at the weight and health struggles of several post collegiate DI football players. The article focuses...
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Listen to our Podcast of the week – An interview with Matt Reed after a training session this winter by Dr. Stephen Walker, CC-AASP Matt Reed was born in New Zealand but moved to the USA several years ago when his love for elite triathlete Kelly Rees brought him here.  Competing for the USA,...
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Malcom Gladwell writes about youth sports, Rick Pitino, David & Goliath and war strategy in the New Yorker: by Dr. Stephen Walker, CC-AASP When Vivek Ranadive’ coached his Redwood City – 12 year old girls basketball team to the National Junior Basketball Championships, he was more than a curiosity.  Never having played basketball, and...
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By Dr. Haley Perlus Athletes First Why do young athletes participate in sports?  This is a simple question with insurmountable implications for improving youth competitive sport. Children choose to participate in sport for the following six reasons: 1) to have fun,  2) to learn and improve skills,   3) to be with friends,   4)...
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Here Comes March Madness! The Mens and Womens NCAA Basketball Tournament Today, the brackets for the NCAA Basketball Tournament are being announced….and everyone has dreams of winning. In my opinion, no sporting event on planet earth brings out the best in coaches like the road to the National Championship. John Wooden, unprecedented winner of...
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“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly,...
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by Stephen Walker, PhD, CC-AASP Returning from AASP in one piece is not always easy. Not much sleep, a frenetic pace and meeting up with great minds always gets me buzzing. I realized that I have been to roughly half of these conferences since losing my virginity (ahem…my AASP virginity) in Nashua, New Hampshire...
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There are a number of factors that contribute to productive relationships and assist in the development of a mutual understanding amongst people. There is none, however, that is more important than Active Listening. This is an essential skill in life, but I am amazed at the number of people who have never...
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Editor’s note: The Spanish Courts upheld charges filed recently against Eufemiano Fuentes and Jose Marino Batres, the doctors at the center of a major doping investigation in cycling that busted Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso, Francisco Mancebo and several others out of the 2006 Tour de France. Nearly 100 bags of frozen blood and equipment...
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