Girls Play To Win Soccer

Author : Jeff Kassouf
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781599534640

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Girls Play to Win Soccer by Jeff Kassouf Pdf

Sit back and enjoy – it’s “the beautiful game!” Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and women are taking center stage. After years on the sidelines, women burst onto the scene in the 1970s and 1980s. Stars such as Mia Hamm brought the game to the masses in the ‘90s. Now it’s your turn. Grab a ball and get on a field. After all, the whole world is doing it! The history, the rules, and the heroines: these nonfiction accounts of women's sports relate the interesting insights of each sport, including the rules, game play, and standout athletes. Girls looking for role models as well as the "hows and whys" of their favorite game will find the answers in these fresh, accessible titles. Part history, part biography, and part instruction, Girls Play to Win allows readers to access "everything they want to know" about the game. More than an introduction, this series takes what is likely an existing interest and allows the reader to delve deeper. Content consultants are real-world experts that include Olympic athletes and coaches. Library Media Connection's Editor's Choice

Author : Marty Gitlin
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781599534657

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Girls Play to Win Softball by Marty Gitlin Pdf

Step to the plate and swing for the fences! Softball has grown from a spontaneous game to serious business. What began as an indoor ballgame is now one of the most popular women’s sports. Stars like Joan Joyce and Jennie Finch helped it get there. Now players such as Cat Osterman and Monica Abbott are leading the charge. Grab a ball, bat, and glove and get ready to join them! The history, the rules, and the heroines: these nonfiction accounts of women's sports relate the interesting insights of each sport, including the rules, game play, and standout athletes. Girls looking for role models as well as the "hows and whys" of their favorite game will find the answers in these fresh, accessible titles. Part history, part biography, and part instruction, Girls Play to Win allows readers to access "everything they want to know" about the game. More than an introduction, this series takes what is likely an existing interest and allows the reader to delve deeper. Content consultants are real-world experts that include Olympic athletes and coaches. Library Media Connection's Editor's Choice

Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520276758

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Playing to Win by Hilary Levey Friedman Pdf

"Many parents work more hours outside of the home and their lives are crowded with more obligations than ever before; many children spend their evenings and weekends trying out for all-star teams, traveling to regional and national tournaments, and eating dinner in the car while being shuttled between activities. In this vivid ethnography, based on almost 200 interviews with parents, children, coaches and teachers, Hilary Levey probes the increase in children's participation in activities outside of the home, structured and monitored by their parents, when family time is so scarce. As the parental "second shift" continues to grow, alongside it a second shift for children has emerged--especially among the middle- and upper-middle classes--which is suffused with competition rather than mere participation. What motivates these particular parents to get their children involved in competitive activities? Parents' primary concern is their children's access to high quality educational credentials--the biggest bottleneck standing in the way of, or facilitating entry into, membership in the upper-middle class. Competitive activities, like sports and the arts, are seen as the essential proving ground that will clear their children's paths to the Ivy League or other similar institutions by helping them to develop a competitive habitus. This belief, motivated both by reality and by perception, and shaped by gender and class, affects how parents envision their children's futures; it also shapes the structure of children's daily lives, what the children themselves think about their lives, and the competitive landscapes of the activities themselves"--

Author : Deborah Crisfield
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Soccer
ISBN : 9780816077144

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Winning Soccer for Girls by Deborah Crisfield Pdf

An introduction, in text and illustrations, to the techniques and strategies of soccer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781534524217

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412227131

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How to Win Your Next Soccer Game and Coaching Very Young Soccer Players by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tony Dicicco,Colleen Hacker,Charles Salzberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101166079

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Catch Them Being Good by Tony Dicicco,Colleen Hacker,Charles Salzberg Pdf

This guide to coaching female athletes of all ages shows how to build a team and provides invaluable advice on the differences between coaching males and females. The authors include exercises that foster teamwork and develop essential skills. They also answer parents' most common questions, such as how to tell if the coach is doing a good job and what to do if a child wants to quit. Filled with stories about the Olympic and World Cup championship teams, this useful handbook is infused throughout with DiCicco's philosophy that at every level playing soccer (or any sport) is about "playing hard, playing fair, playing to win, and having fun."

Author : Alex Morgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442485723

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Saving the Team by Alex Morgan Pdf

From star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the New York Times bestselling first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working as a team. Twelve-year-old Devin loves to play soccer. If she hadn’t just left Connecticut to move across the country, she would have been named seventh-grade captain on her school soccer team. But now that Devin is starting seventh grade in Kentville, California, all bets are off. After all, some of the best players on the US national team come from California. She’s sure to have stiff competition. Or so she thinks. When Devin shows up for tryouts, she discovers that the Kentville Kangaroos—otherwise known as the Kicks—are an absolute mess. Their coach couldn’t care less whether the girls win or lose. And Devin is easily one of the most talented players. The good news is, Devin quickly makes friends with funny, outgoing Jessi; shy but sweet Zoe; and klutzy Emma. Can Devin and her newfound friends pull together and save the team from itself?

Author : Ilse Hartmann-Tews,Gertrud Pfister
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports
ISBN : 041524627X

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Sport and Women by Ilse Hartmann-Tews,Gertrud Pfister Pdf

The book illuminates a wide range of key international issues in women's sport, such as cultural barriers to participation and the efficacy of political action. It is therefore essential reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology, culture

Author : Brian D. Bunk
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252052781

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From Football to Soccer by Brian D. Bunk Pdf

Rediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S. Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States—and the beautiful game's transformation into a truly international sport. A multilayered look at one game’s place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history.

Author : Mia Hamm,Aaron Heifetz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780062275776

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Go For The Goal by Mia Hamm,Aaron Heifetz Pdf

For the more than seven million girls—from knobby-kneed tykes to high school and college stars—who are tearing across the country chasing a soccer ball and dreams of glory, there is one name that eclipses all others, male or female: Mia Hamm. With her cheetahlike acceleration and lightning-bolt shot, Hamm broke nearly every record in her sport, while galvanizing a whole generation of fans and players. Go for the Goal is not only the inspiring story of how a tiny suburban sprite became a global terror with a ball (and the world) at her feet—it's also a step-by-step or dribble-by-dribble guide for any kid with the all-American dream of making the team and becoming a champion. Filled with personal anecdotes and fully illustrated with both action and instructional photographs, Go for the Goal shows readers exactly how to master the silky skills and techniques that made Hamm and her teammates the finest women's soccer team in the world.

Author : Jonathan Littman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062284464

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The Beautiful Game by Jonathan Littman Pdf

Once nobody noticed Santa Rosa's Thunder. They were a ragtag team of girls who wanted to play soccer, and no one took them seriously. Their male coach expected little from his "ladies, " and their mediocre performance convinced them he was right. Then a kind of miracle happened. Emiria Salzmann, Thunder's new coach, a top player herself, knew what it took to win--discipline, relentless drills, thigh-burning sprints, and an inspired passing game. The girls hated it, but their coach never let up. Tough and determined, she showed them what it felt like to be winners--and they loved it. As the momentum grew with a string of victories, the girls thrived on the competition, believing they had the right stuff to become champions. They were right! With spirits soaring, Thunder won its league on the last day of the season and headed for the state cup, emerging not just as powerful athletes but as strong, confident, emotionally healthy human beings--champions in the game of soccer, and in the game of life.

Author : Margaret Ann Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 155111268X

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The Girl and the Game by Margaret Ann Hall Pdf

The Girl and the Game traces the history of women's organized sport in Canada from its early, informal roots in the late nineteenth century through the formation of amateur and professional teams to today's tendency to market women athletes, especially Olympians, as both athletic and sexual. When women actively participate in the symbols, practices, and institutions of sport, what they do is often not considered "real" sport, nor in some cases are they viewed as "real" women. What follows from this notion of sport as a site of cultural struggle is that the history of women in sport is also a history of cultural resistance.

Author : Kate T. Parker
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781523511365

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Play Like a Girl by Kate T. Parker Pdf

Life lessons from the soccer field, from the bestselling author of Strong is the New Pretty. A bruised shin, a bloody nose. Racing across the field into the arms of your teammates. Leaping high to save a goal. Getting up at dawn to kick ball after ball into the net. Making friends for life. Teaching your younger sister how to dribble. Sharing cupcakes at practice on your birthday. Going to sleep in your jersey. That’s what it means to be fearless, dedicated, confident, resilient, proud, persistent. It doesn’t matter whether you’re 3 or 63––that’s what it means to play like a girl. “Kate T. Parker is my hero. She moves me. The whole world she has created moves me.”––Drew Barrymore

Author : Jon M Fishman
Publisher : Lerner + ORM
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541576179

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Abby Wambach by Jon M Fishman Pdf

Right out of college, Abby Wambach shot to fame in the United States soccer scene. In 2002, she was picked second in the Women's United Soccer Association draft by the Washington Freedom. She also became a leading scorer on the US Women's National Team. After winning the 2012 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award and two Olympic gold medals, Abby is still going strong. She holds the world record for international goals. Follow Abby's story from her beginnings at University of Florida to becoming an international soccer superstar.