Last year, Molly Giudice just wanted her mom, Mary McQuade Giudice, to attend a Wakefield (Rhode Island) Prout School swim meet.
“My mom was a perfectly healthy, wonderful woman who was extremely involved in my life,” Giudice said. “One day coming home to the news that she had stage four lung cancer was news I never expected to receive.”
Joseph Schooling of Jacksonville (Florida) Bolles School his own posted national record for the 100-yard Butterfly at the Florida High School Athletic Association High School State Championship meet.
The new career leader in field hockey goals still has a full year to add to her total.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) is placing an emphasis on sportsmanship and encouraging schools to be ejection free.
The NCHSAA has an ejection and disqualification code that all coaches and student-athletes are required to follow.
Waccamaw (South Carolina) High School is expanding its athletic opportunities to include a sailing club.
Sophomore Griffin DesMarteau was looking for an opportunity to sail competitively after moving from Oregon to Pawleys Island, South Carolina. At the urging of his mother, he created his own opportunity starting with a sailing school at the South Carolina Maritime Museum in Georgetown.
Rasul “Rocky” Clark was a starting running back for Eisenhower High School when he suffered two broken vertebrae in his neck and a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the neck down in September 2000.
For 10 years, from the time of the injury until August 2010, Clark’s family had relied on the insurance policy that Eisenhower High School had for all its students. The insurance money allowed Clark to have round-the-clock nurses in his home and access to pain medication, prescription drugs and medical supplies. In August 2010, the family received notice that the $5 million insurance policy under which Clark was covered had reached its lifetime maximum.
A 16-member sports medicine advisory committee will review the Florida High School Athletic Association’s (FHSAA) policy regarding performance-enhancing drugs (PED).
The FHSAA chose to conduct this review after a report linked several high school students to Biogenesis, the organization that was connected with the suspensions of 14 Major League Baseball players.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) is placing an emphasis on sportsmanship and encouraging schools to be ejection-free.
The NCHSAA has an ejection and disqualification code that all coaches and student-athletes are required to follow.
The New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA), with the support of 13 Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services Regional Networks, is placing an emphasis on student-athlete wellness through its “Life of an Athlete Program” that was started in August.
This program is based on the book by Olympic trainer and coach John Underwood with the goal of educating student-athletes about how their choices when they are off the field can affect their overall performance.
“I failed to realize that the whole security industry is so diverse,” said Elliot Hopkins, NFHS director of sports and educational services, after attending the National Sports Safety and Security Conference and Exhibition in mid-July.
“There was a whole ballroom full of people there and people we were never traditionally exposed to,” said Hopkins.
This past spring, the Laurel (Delaware) High School softball team won the fourth state championship in the school’s history and the first in a girls sport.
The girls completed the 2012-13 regular season with a 16-2 record, scoring 131 runs and only giving up 18.
With the high school football season barely underway, two quarterbacks have already had record performing games.
Shuler Bentley, a senior quarterback at Duncan (South Carolina) Byrnes High School, outshined Peyton Manning’s impressive seven touchdown pass opening night for the Denver Broncos when he threw for nine touchdowns. He would run for another touchdown as Byrnes cruised to an 82-49 victory.
Located in Sandy, Utah is Jordan High School.
Once serving as the school of an all-rural community Jordan is now comprised of students from urban, suburban and rural communities.