Doping in Sports – How to Protect Yourself
Doping in sport and especially in school sports has become an ever growing trend. As young adults and aspiring athletes it is important to protect yourself and prevent your career from ending before it even starts. Doping at a young age can bring an end to any aspirations you may have to compete on the biggest stages and excel at the sport you love.
From The Physio: “Why Girls Should Play Sport”
We can divide the benefits into three basic categories; Physical health, Academic and Psychological.
Physical Health
Playing sport has the obvious effects of helping to control...
Sports Psychology: When Coaches Play Favorites – Article for Sports Parents
For a parent and a young player it could be the most frustrating aspect of school sport when it appears that a coach has his “special” players which he tends to favour.
Champions Bounce Back Better From Failure!
At the Champion Academy, we have noted a common pattern and a common effect that failure has on a champion’s mind-set and performance. This...
Sports Psychology: Selection Dilemmas & Not Making The Team
“Selection dilemmas: Not making the team THIS week.”It’s late in the week and squads for the weekend fixtures are on the notice board. “Will my name be in the A-squad starting line-up, the reserve bench or have I been dropped?”
Curro Hillcrest’s Future Sport Ambitions
The amount of Co-educational schools in the country that can compete against the traditional monastic schools in the sporting arena can be counted on one hand.
Where is the Best School Sports Arena in SA?
It is that school field which holds the fondest memories, when as eighth Grader’s we watched in awe as our first team demolished the...
The 50 Top Boys Sports Schools of 2017 & The Cost
“You pays your money and you takes your choice,” wrote Mark Twain in 1884 at the end of Chapter 28 of Huckleberry Finn.
Steroids: Expelled Kearsney Pupil, Appeals to Courts
Kearsney College acted decisively against a Grade 11 learner this month that was tested positive for the steroid Sustanon, by expelling the boy.
The learner...
Parents: The Subliminal Power Of Positive Cheering
We have all heard it and even said it before, phrases of encouragement directed towards young athletes with phrases like, “dig a little deeper” or “you have to want it more than they do” or, ideally, “be mentally tough.”
