Athletics vs Studies: Conundrum or False Choice?
For some middle and high school age athletes, the competition for time between practice sessions and studying for classes can be an ongoing hassle. Invariably these young athletes find themselves pressed by coaches and teachers alike who tend to look at the student-athlete from their particular one-sided universe. When these tussles occur within the confines of a high school, at least both parties are under one roof, more or less. But when the coach represents a non-school sponsored club sport, opportunties for communication between teacher and coach can be severely limited.
History Comes Alive in Our Historical Section
Their stories stay with us. They reverbrate down through the decades . . . Abrahama Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debating each other across the state of Illinois during the senatorial campaign of 1858 . . . Harriet and Dred Scott, slaves who dared to challenge the political structure of their era all the way to the US Supreme Court . . . The Monroe Cheesemakers, a high school basketball team that took on all comers on their way to the Wisconsin Schoolboy State Championship in 1965 . . . Bobby Thomson, an outfielder for the NY Giants who came to the plate with his team trailing the Brooklyn Dodgers in the bottom of the 9th inning in the last of three playoff games to determine who whould win the pennant. What happened in that at bat has since been dubbed "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" . . . Chief Black Hawk, a proud chief of the Sauk tribe, was determined to resist the takeover of the tribe's lands by an ever expanding American nation. What followed became known as "The Black Hawk War."
Sportademics is a unique web based company that emphasizes the meaningful true synergy of academics and sport within our culture. We believe deeply that a combination of intellectual pursuits with the physical, notably as realized through sports in all its varied forms, steadily enhances our lives as humans at every level and in virtually every expression.
Pikes Peak Young Composers
The Pikes Peak Young Composers Competition was created in 1995 by Leonard Rhodes with support from the Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration and Colorado Springs Music Company to provide an opportunity for young composers throughout the State of Colorado.
