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5 posts tagged "youth sports"

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Lose ‘focus on the glove’

David Kramer | Tuesday, September 14, 2021

It’s a tale as old as time. Your local Little League phenom toes the rubber and enters the most cataclysmic free fall of pitching command in their young career. The pitcher looks for any source of valuable constructive among the sea of vicarious parents and overzealous wannabe coaches. After walking the bases loaded, the young

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Kramer: Legends of the “Safety Meeting”

David Kramer | Wednesday, November 6, 2019

As two Michigan natives pack their car for their son’s inaugural youth hockey game, they escape the brisk, gripping winds of the Minnesota winter and tread into their freshly-completed mud room. Their eyes falling on the two clipboards placed near the door as a reminder of their next appointment, they gather their last pair of

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Kramer: Baseball’s One-Dimensional Plague

David Kramer | Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Some of society’s most bizarre and ill-considered insight comes from volunteer youth baseball coaches. Granted, nearly every retiree cherishes memories of beloved coaches who overcame this stereotype and actually bestowed some life-changing wisdom on them. But in spite of our exceptional role models, something about the nature of the volunteer position makes people act so

Viewpoint

Let kids be kids

Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, November 7, 2017

When I was 14, I went through a crisis of sorts in my life. I was an overweight, insecure freshman who had just been cut from his high school junior varsity baseball team. After 10 years of spending summers absorbed in travel teams and private coaches, I was coming to the realization that maybe, just

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Professor’s charity organization facilitates growth through youth sports

Natalie Weber | Wednesday, May 3, 2017

After his own experience as a youth sports coach, Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) professor Clark Power said he founded charity organization “Play Like a Champion Today” to provide coaches with the proper training to effectively serve children and teach character development. “What I found was that I was never given any real direction or

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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