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Cheerleading Daily shares some tips to achieve higher basket tosses that always seem to amaze the crowd and get them cheering.  Essential to how high your basket tosses go is the height of release point for the bases, though other factors such as physical strength,  timing and experience also play important roles.  Here are some basic tips to keep in mind:

US Lax magazine highlighted that in July, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) revised boy's lacrosse officiating rules.  The new rules aim to improve safety, provide consistency across the age levels, and keep the game exciting for players and spectators.  Here's a sample of rule adjustments:

Summer 2017 was unforgettable. Thank you again for being a part of it. We can’t wait to build upon the relationships we formed with you  all or create new ones as we look towards summer 2018!

Volleyball is an original American sport created by William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.  In its inception, volleyball was originally called Mintonette and with some changes to the rules, it was known as volleyball by 1896.  Volleyball spread by way of the YMCA branches that were located nationwide.  By the early 1900's, volleyball was being played in distant shores like Cuba and the Philippines.  Today, more than 46 million Americans play volleyball.

As a child in dance class, you may have had imaginings of what it would feel like to be chosen for your dream role, conquering a famous stage as you shared your passion for dance, and then embracing the thunderous applause.

Most parents would love to be able to hold onto the memory of their child's greatest sports moment or at least have captured a great photo of it.  But for some of us, what seems like a simple task has been gargantuan.  Vincent Pugliese,  Sports Photo School wrote a post for JBMThinks with 3 great photo tips that all of us can at manage:

Ultimate Baseball Training's Coach Justin shares 3 drills to help infielders improve their fielding skills.

Steam education is the acronym for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.  "The STEAM education approach, in particular, challenges students to find solutions to open-ended problems and learn concepts in a multidisciplinary way based on relatable real world scenarios. Children are exposed to important new concepts and ideas like robotics, coding, AI, collaborative design, and mixed media, among others."

Coach Morgan Sullivan shares that "self-confidence and self-efficacy are commonly thought to be interchangeable, the main difference is that self-confidence is an overarching view of one’s own aptitude while self-efficacy is situationally dependent. Many sport psychologists consider self-confidence to be a personality trait; one that can, and does, adjust over time."

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