Physical education,often abbreviated to Phys. Ed. or PE,and sometimes informally referred to as gym class or simply just gym,is a subject taught in schools around the world. PE is taught during primary and secondary education and encourages psychomotor,cognitive,and effective learning through physical activity and movement exploration to promote health and physical fitness. When taught correctly and in a positive manner,children and teens can receive a storm of health benefits. These include reduced metabolic disease risk,improved cardiorespiratory fitness,and better mental health. In addition,PE classes can produce positive effects on students' behavior and academic performance. Research has shown that there is a positive correlation between brain development and exercising. Researchers in 2007 found a profound gain in English Arts standardized test scores among students who had 56 hours of physical education in a year,compared to those who had 28 hours of physical education a year.
The coach in ice hockey is the person responsible for directing the team during games and practices,prepares strategy and decides which players will participate in games.
An athletic coach is a person coaching in sport,involved in the direction,instruction,and training of a sports team or athlete.
Lacrosse in Australia is a minor sport,with a long and proud history dating back to 1876,with a small but dedicated community of participants and volunteers. The established centres for lacrosse are in the greater metropolitan areas of Melbourne,Adelaide,and Perth. In these cities there are organised weekend field lacrosse competitions for men and women at senior and junior levels,played over the winter months. In the off-season,there are informal box lacrosse and sofcrosse competitions,though the majority of players in Australia are mostly of the field lacrosse type. Some lacrosse is also played in Sydney,South East Queensland,Canberra,Ballarat and Bendigo,it is very much at the developmental level.
The Society of Health and Physical Educators,known as SHAPE America,is an American organization that provides support to professionals in health,physical education,recreation and dance.
Sport plays an important role in the business,community,social and cultural life in the state of South Australia.
Robert Mackay Keddie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and West Adelaide,South Adelaide and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
A lacrosse helmet is a helmet worn primarily in men's lacrosse,but also worn optionally by women's lacrosse players in Australia. Modern helmets consist of a hard plastic,non-adjustable shell with thick padding on the inside,a face mask made of metal bars,and a chinstrap used to secure the helmet to the head. Some players also attach a sun visor shielding the eyes,though these visors are not legal in most leagues.
Canadian-American Patricia Hogan is a Professor Emerita at Northern Michigan University in Marquette,Michigan,USA. Dr. Hogan publishes and presents in the areas of developing Professional Intellect in university students,Inquiry-Based and Problem-Based Learning,student agency,professional ethics,prosumerism,Social Media applications in education mission-central learning,and in Social Media for Sport and Fitness Business. Her educational scholarly interests involve experimenting with promoting a connectivist approach to enhance learning for relevant literacies and skill-sets in her classes and to teaching for integrative and abductive reasoning and design thinking. She also engages Project Based Learning in her classes. In the 2014-15 academic year she was on sabbatical working with SBRnet data and her colleague,James Santomier,to publish and present on the use of social media and mobile media in sport/fitness.
Jenny Williams is an Australian sports psychologist and athlete who represented South Australia in six sports,namely lacrosse,indoor lacrosse,touch,soccer,cricket,and Australian rules football.
Physical literacy is the ability to move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.
Frank Sherman Pyke was an Australian sports scientist,educator,author,Australian rules footballer and sports administrator. He played 130 games for Perth in the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) and two interstate matches for Western Australia,and later served as a professor at a number of universities in Australia,Canada and the United States. He also served as the inaugural executive director of the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS),where he pioneered the Athlete Career and Education (ACE) program.
Para-athletics classification is a system to determine which athletes with disabilities may compete against each other in para-athletics events. Classification is intended to group together athletes with similar levels of physical ability to allow fair competition. Classification was created and is managed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC),which is regularly published via its IPC Athletics Classification Handbook. People with physical,vision and intellectual disabilities are eligible to compete in this sport at the Summer Paralympics. The classification for this sport was created during the 1940s and for much of its early history was a medical condition based classification system. The classification system has subsequently become a functional mobility based one,and is moving towards an evidence-based classification system.
Wendy Ey,born Wendy Hayes,was an Australian track and field athlete,administrator,academic,author and feminist. She was an athletics sprint and hurdles champion from 1954 until 1960 and a Commonwealth Games silver medalist in Cardiff,Wales in 1958. Ey also excelled at squash and hockey. Ey continued to be an active sport participant all her life and was a master’s world champion in athletics.
Justine Sowry is an Australian former field hockey goalkeeper and current Head Coach of University of Louisville Women's Field Hockey,the Cardinals,which competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the United States. She was a member of Australia women's national field hockey team from 1991 - 2001 which is best known as the Hockeyroos which won the World Cup in 1994 and 1998. She was capped 128 times during her international career. She was a member of the Hockeyroos Olympic Squad for the Atlanta (1996) and Sydney Olympics (2000).
John Alfred Daly OAM was an Australian academic physical educator,sports historian and Australian Olympic athletics coach.
Fay Biles was an American academic and college sports coach. She was the first woman to serve in a vice presidency role at an Ohio university. As a head coach of the field hockey and lacrosse teams,she logged more victories than any other coach in Kent State University history. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.
Keith Lyons was an educator and sport scientist who specialized in the observation and analysis of performance in sport. He was the author of the first book on the use of video in sport. Lyons founded the Centre for Notational Analysis at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education in 1992 with the help of John Pugh,Peter Treadwell,David Cobner and Sean Power. He moved to Australia in 2002 to take up a position as the founding Coordinator of Performance Analysis at the Australian Institute of Sport. He was the founding Director of the Institute of Sport Studies at the University of Canberra in 2009. Lyons blogged about his work in teaching,coaching and performance on the "Clyde Street" blog from 2008 onwards.
Dorothy "Dottie" B. McKnight worked as the executive director of the United States Women's Lacrosse Association and the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports,a university professor,a varsity coach,and an advocate for sex equity in athletics.
