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Free Sports Performance Combine Offered
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High school athletes will have an opportunity on Friday, Nov. 28, to get a free assessment to find out how prepared they are for the next season. Velocity Sports Performance will conduct the Combine at its Scottsdale facility, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
The Combine will include speed tests (30/40 yard sprints), vertical jump measurements, upper body power assessments, and agility tests. The testing will be done indoors on a Mondo track and artificial turf areas with electronic equipment to assure accurate and reproducible results.
Velocity Sports Performance is the largest athletic performance training organization in Scottsdale and North America. It helps athletes maximize agility, speed, flexibility, and energy systems with an emphasis on injury prevention, recovery/regeneration and nutrition.
Each participant will be required to have a parental release form filled out at Velocity on the day of the event. Warm-ups will begin at 1:30 and testing will follow immediately afterwards.
To register for this free event, open to all athletes 10 years or older, call Velocity at 480-503-8212.
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Nominate A Deserving Coach for National Award
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Do you have a favorite coach that deserves some special recognition?
You have until Nov. 30 to get your nomination in for the Double-Goal Coach Award, presented by the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), a national non-profit organization that has helped create a positive character-building youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth sports athletes since 1998.
A PCA Double-Goal Coach is someone who wants to win, AND has a second goal: to help players develop positive character traits so they can be successful in life. While winning is important, helping players learn "life lessons" is more important to this kind of coach. Does that sound like someone you know?
You can go to www.positivecoach.org to get an online form to submit your nomination. Winners will receive a commemorative certificate and an expenses-paid trip to PCA's 8th Annual National Youth Sports Awards Ceremony in April.
Award finalists will be notified in January and eventual winners will be notified in February.
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HS Athletes Invited to Fitness Challenge
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 High school athletes are being challenged to complete a series of five simple exercises, as Ikei Sports Performance searches for those 'with the heart of a champion and pride of a warrior." The winners earn the right to over $1,000 in prizes - and the satisfaction of knowing they have also participated in the fight against autism.
The company has created the "Warrior Fitness Challenge" for high school students in grades 9-12, and invites participants to challenge their friends, classmates, and teammates to see who can earn "Warrior' status. Five simple exercises are required: Pull-up, Push-up, Squat, Sit-up, and 300-yard run.
Ikei Performance is using this event to help support The Travis Laboy Foundation - Supporting Autistic Causes for Kids (S.A.C.K.). Proceeds from the Challenge will help benefit S.A.C.K.
The cost to participate is $25 per person, or $35 for two participants, and sessions are held weekly. Prizes include free personal training sessions, an autographed NFL football, Arizona Cardinals Travis Laboy jersey, Sunfare gourmet meal delivery service, and T-shirts.
To find out more about the Warrior Fitness Challenge, call 480.657.6937 or email: info@ikeiperformance.com.
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MIND GAMES: Believe & you will achieve
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Prior to Super Bowl III, New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath made one of the boldest statements in the history of sports when he guaranteed victory against the powerful and heavily-favored Baltimore Colts. Namath and the Jets made good on his claim, however, and defeated the Colts in what many consider to be one of the greatest upsets of all time. Broadway Joe (as Namath was called) certainly wasn’t short on believing in his ability to achieve his goals – and neither should you.
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Coaches Corner
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Arizona Coaches Association Welcomes New President Mike
Brown of Greenway.
The end of 2006 marks the end of the Arizona Coaches Association presidency for me. I welcome Mike Brown as he heads up this organization for the next two years. I have worked with Mike as a coach, as well as on our ACA board, having coached his son in track. Mike will make a great leader for our association.
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