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Youth Football Clinics Try A New Angle To PreventConcussions

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n a windyday in in Macon, Ga., dozens of second-graders are standing on a university footb

eld, crowded around Atlanta Falcons rookie Terren Jones.

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ones is helping to lead a Heads Up Football clinic, one of hundreds held across the country t

pring by the nonprofit USA Football. Primarily funded by the NFL, these clinics teach parents

bout proper helmet and shoulder-pad fitting, and kids as young as 6 learn how to avoid

oncussions from pros like Jones.

Nobody wants to get concussions, because it sucks, and it's not fun," says Jones. "I've had a

ouple."

he Heads Up approach is simple. First, it modifies the typical stances players take when they

ned up before the snap: feet wider than usual; shoulder blades squeezed back and down;

ance sunk into a low squat, with hands forward and backs at 45-degree angles to the ground

ormally, players dip lower, diving head first into the opponent. With heads upright, even the

ound of the impact is different.

ot everyone is convinced that the training will actually prevent concussions. Former NFL tigh

nd Nate Jackson says it might work in practice, but the tips will all go out the window in a rea

ame.

They can easily talk about these steps and techniques to making a safe tackle, but really the

ost effective way to hit and to tackle is to shoot yourself into them with your head," Jackson

ays. "When there's a game happening, and you get put in that survival mode, you react and y

o headfirst. You go with the most effective way to do it."

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Still, doctors and scientists are hopeful the techniques will

stick. Gerard Gioia, a neuropsychologist at the Children's

National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., says if kids

learn these techniques early, they will become instinctive.

"You've been taught how to do this all along, and the same

ay we learn any kind of skill," Gioia says, "with enough practice and with enough appropriateoaching along the way, your best way of winning is to keep yourself in the game and to do th

roperly."

t the Heads Up drill, Tracey Weekley is watching her 12-year-old run into a tackle dummy tw

s size. She says her son has already suffered two concussions while playing recreational

ootball.

wish that every youth football, from middle school, high school and rec, would have to take t

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eminar," Weekley says. "But you have coaches that are teaching the way they were taught w

ey were playing football. So they're teaching, harder the hit, the better the hit."

any coaches are getting the message, though. After pilot testing two years ago, more than

000 youth leagues have signed up. Thirty-five high schools nationwide are using the techniq

nd two of those teams won state championships.

ven the pros are buying in theoretically. The NFL has added rules that mirror the Heads Undamentals, but the safest methods may not reach the professional level until the kids at He

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Whether winning, losing or practicing on the diamond, Kirsten Albright usually has a smile on her face.

That grin was never bigger than when the senior led the Tattnall Square Trojans to their first GISA fastpitch

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softball state championship on Oct. 19. Albright pitched all 21 innings of the best-of-three series againstWestfield, closing out the final two games with 10 dominant shutout innings after a 4-0 loss in the first game.

Albright is The Telegraphs All Middle-Georgia Softball Player of the Year.

She knew that we had a good shot to accomplish our goals of winning our last ballgame if everybody cametogether, Tattnall head coach Joey Hiller said. We definitely had the talent, but shes the one that helped pulleverything together.

The championship capped o!a tremendous career at Tattnall. Albright went 53-4 on the mound, including anall-time high of 22 wins in the 2013 season, and she is the career ERA leader at 1.02 and regular season ERAleader at 0.55.

And she can hit, too. As the cleanup hitter for the Trojans, she holds the record for career batting average at .4and RBI at 115. She had 55 hits, including eight home runs, this season.

The senior enjoys being a dual threat.

I guess it really depends on the day. When Im hitting two home runs, I love hitting, Albright said. But I lovepitching. Ill always deny that, but I do. I like the team looking up to me and being able to control the game.

After transferring from CFCA in ninth grade, she expanded her pitching repertoire and skills.

When I got to Tattnall, they helped me tremendously on what pitch to throw on what batter on what count, stuId never even thought about, Albright said. They helped me with the details, which are sometimes the biggespart.

She watched as the Trojans made it to the playo!s several times but never won it all.

I think this years team knew failure from years past, because our juniors played varsity in eighth grade, and we knew how awful it was to end our season short, she said. Weve always worked hard, and were glad itfinally paid o!.

Albright will take her game to GMC, where she will continue her softball career in the spring of 2015.

My mom has always drilled into me, If youre not doing your best, why not do it? she said. I gotta do mybest. I guess Im kind of a perfectionist when it comes to softball.

That perfectionism always comes with a smile on the field.

Shes somebody that just every day she shows up with a big grin on her face, like, Man, Ive been waiting allday to do this, Hiller said. She plays the game with love and passion for the game and just purely enjoysplaying and working with softball. Shes just extremely easy to coach, because shes so talented, a great leadeand shows up and works extremely hard while shes got that smile on her face.

Albright is usually too busy focusing on playing her best to realize how often she smiles.

I dont ever really notice it until people point it out, she said. I guess, what is there not to smile about? Its juknowing that Im out there and working for my team.

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AU CABELL/THE TELEGRAPHWith just seconds on the clock, Rutlands Jaylon Tyson, right,aws the defense of Centrals Charquez Jackson (11) and Derrick Evans Jr. (14) before passing tollas Smith (13) for the game-winning basket Saturday at Rutland.

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tland had little time to recover from a tough loss to Veterans on Friday night before it played rival Centralturday afternoon.

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t the Hurricanes held a team meeting between the games, and senior Shakenneth Williams said it helpedtland to a 75-73 victory over the Chargers.

was very important to everybody, said Williams, who led the Hurricanes with 16 points. Everybody felt had to come in, work hard for this game. We cant let (Friday) night get in the way of that, so we all just

e mindset that we had to come in and play this big rivalry game and get back on top.

tland head coach Ron Christian agreed that the meeting helped his 14-3 Hurricanes come together for thn.

ur first key to victory was let (Friday) night go, Christian said. And the next thing was the passion and n

e poison. We talked about them having the passion for the game and for basketball. Dont poison it by doe little things that are gonna hurt us.

e win didnt come easily as Rutland saw a 19-11 first-quarter lead evaporate to only a two-point lead atftime, thanks in part to 15 second-quarter points from Centrals Terry McCoy.

e played with a lot of passion in the first half, ... but we overpassed a little bit, we threw the ball out, and ys got a little frustrated with themselves, Christian said.

ntral (14-4) jumped out to a 52-42 lead midway through the third, until the Hurricanes went on a 13-4 runse out the quarter only down one.

hen we tried to rein it back in right after halftime, they went up on us, but then we got back into our grood started playing again, Christian said.

e teams traded leads throughout a tense fourth quarter until a layup by Dallas Smith secured the win fortland with 2.6 seconds remaining.

e girls game was down to the wire, as well, with Rutland holding o!Central for a 36-34 victory.

ntral led 27-23 at the end of the third quarter, but balanced scoring in the fourth from the Hurricanes put argers away.

tlands Eboni Watts and TyAsia Grayer had 8 points each, while Jarfaith Jones led the way for the Chargh 14.

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Dressed in a baby blue shirt and a North Carolina tie, Caleb Samuel showed no signs of a last-minuteNational Signing Day surprise.

The FPD senior made his April 10 commitment official and signed his national letter-of-intent for NorthCarolina on Wednesday morning.

Samuel had several offers from other major-conference programs, including Boston College, Kentucky,Louisville, Miami, Mississippi State, Mississippi and Temple, but ultimately North Carolina won out.

I thought about it for a long, long while. I was battling in my mind, Samuel said. But I talked it over withmy parents, and I really just get the best of both worlds going to North Carolina. I get a really good

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education, and I get to play really good football, so it made sense.

I like the coaches, I like the team, I like the campus. I could see myself there for a good while, so it wasan easy choice for me.

Samuel, surrounded by his parents, sister and senior teammates, signed his letter of intent after remarksfrom head coach Greg Moore and offensive line coach Ken Garvin.

Moore listed off Samuels various rankings and accomplishments, including a selection to the AP All-Stateteam and The Telegraphs All-Middle Georgia team, then added, Youre gonna see this young man playon Sunday one day.

Caleb Samuel is a positive influence and has a great impact on his team, Moore said. On the field,certainly, but also in the locker room and away from the practice field and the game. It didnt matter if youwere a senior or a freshman, he had something positive to offer you as a teammate.

Samuel started on both sides of the ball for FPD, playing left tackle and end. He racked up 43 total tackles,including five for loss and four quarterback sacks.

Samuel is projected at left tackle at North Carolina, but he was hesitant to pick what he prefers.

I like (playing left tackle), Samuel said. I like it a lot. I like both sides of the ball, so Im just gonna do wha

they tell me, really.

That will include adding some bulk to his already 6-foot-7, 265-pound frame. Itll help that he intends tomajor in exercise and sports science.

Im just gonna go up there and work as hard as I can, Samuels said. Eat whatever they tell me, gain acouple of pounds. Im just gonna do what they tell me and see what happens from there.

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Gene Harper has worked in athletics for years, so he understands schools joining a startup league are taking arisk.

Youve got a lot of schools that have been in other associations for a long time and are willing to come and bepart of it, said Harper, the executive director of the Georgia Independent Christian Athletic Association. To mewe have to do it the right way because theyre stepping out in faith.

Several Middle Georgia schools already have taken that step, composing some of the 74 schools that make upthe GICAA, which began play this school year with hopes of expanding for the 2014-15 school year. A numberformer GISA members have joined the new league.

CFCA will leave the GISA after this school year to participate in the GICAA in all sports. Covenant, JohnHancock and Twiggs Academy hope to play in both organizations. Westside Christian Academy in WarnerRobins, Skipstone Academy in Gri!n and Vidalia Heritage Academy will also participate in the new league.

Harper said the associations big draw is the ability of members athletics directors to meet and set rules forcompetition.

You decide how many games youre gonna play and how youre gonna do it, said Harper, who served as thefootball head coach at Gatewood, Putnam County and Nathanael Greene. People just wanna have a voice, anwe feel that by doing that, some people have been seeing that thats something that they have wanted.

That member-driven approach lets smallerschools, such as CFCA, play closer teams instead of opponents inbig regions in the GISA.

Weve already got 11 football games scheduled, CFCA football head coach Chris Oxford said. Were excitedabout the freedom we have to schedule anybody.

Oxford said CFCA joined the GICAA primarily for travel reasons. He said his school would have traveled morethan twice as many miles in the GISA for region contests.

The GICAA has sanctioned 12 sports so far for its members, ranging from football to swimming, and will give imembers some additional flexibility by o"ering soccer and softball in both the fall and spring.

The league, headquartered in Cumming, began in early 2013. President and founder Todd Hannon got a grouptogether in January and talked about what it would take to form a new athletics association in Georgia.

Harper said it all started with a foundation of fair play and good sportsmanship.

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grow in their faith, Harper said.

With a full slate of new schools on board for the next year of play, the GICAA is still looking to expand. Theleague will schedule and sanction a middle school program by the 2014-15 year.

Future goals include growing smaller sports once more schools make the switch to the GICAA.

Once you get to 125 schools that are participating in athletics, you basically just have to continue to do yourjob, Harper said. Once you have that base, say your smaller sports like swimming and wrestling will start todevelop and get bigger.

For now, the GICAA is handling a robust first year of signups thanks to a mix of advertising and worth of mout

Obviously there was a need for (the GICAA), to grow from zero to (74 members) in 11 months, Harper said. just know that I feel like were doing it the way we should do it.

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Mount de Sales wins second straightBy JANE HAMMOND

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Keith Hatcher nearly got knocked down Friday night.

The Mount de Sales head coach tried exiting the field as usual after a 28-14 win over Strong Rock, only tobe run into by his exuberant players celebrating the victory.

It wasnt enough to shake Hatcher of his own enthusiasm following the win.

We had a lot of questions that we needed answered over the last few weeks, Hatcher said. We showed alot of improvement (last week) up front on both sides of the ball, and to see it carry over to another game, isreally positive moving forward.

The Cavaliers (2-1) were led, like last week in a 34-7 victory over GMC, by senior Keith Farris. Farris scoredtwice as he ran the ball 95 yards on 23 carries, making up a big chunk of Mount de Sales 159 rushing yards.

Im just playing to the best of my ability to do whatever I can do on the field to help my team win, Farrissaid. My offensive line is opening up holes for me. Thats all they gotta do, and I do the rest.

The Patriots hung close with Mount de Sales, totaling 139 rushing yards and 93 passing on quarterbackRyan Butterfields 10 completions in 19 attempts. But 90 yards of penalties slowed down Strong Rock, andit only managed 11 first downs to the Cavaliers 20.

Mount de Sales got on the board early with Farris first touchdown. His 10-yard run capped a nine-play, 80-yard opening drive, coming with big assists from quarterback Carson Leatherwood.

The senior ended the night with 12 completions on 17 attempts for 97 yards. Fifty-two of those went toBailey Michael, who had five catches, most coming in key first down-producing plays.

(Leatherwoods) done a good job of taking on that quarterback role, learning the game, Hatcher said.(Michael) is definitely his favorite target. Those guys have got a good chemistry, and were going tocontinue to build on that as we move on.

The Patriots scored early in the second quarter, as Butterfield completed a 6-yard scoring pass to Zach

Jones. The two-point conversion was good for an 8-7 Strong Rock lead, but it was back in the hole on thenext Mount de Sales possession.

The Cavaliers scored three more times in the half, coming on Leatherwood and Farris plays. A 20-pointhalftime advantage was dampened briefly by an 11-yard scoring run by Derek Albert early in the third,resulting in the final score, but neither team threatened again.

The evening marked Hatchers second victory with the Cavaliers, leading to an interesting matchup withAquinas next week.

The past few years we havent played our best, so it feels great to have a winning record, Farris said. Theconfidence is high. Were together more as a team. I feel like we can compete with them and come out with

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nathan Ward had a weird feeling while suiting up Friday night. Going into Tattnall Squares game againstHSA Region 7A-A opponent Wilkinson County, Ward could sense his teammates were feeling unfocused.

e hunch continued through the first possession for the Trojans as three mediocre plays forced Tattnall to ard took to the sidelines, yelling at his teammates to wake up.

ake up they did, as the Trojans went on to beat the Warriors 27-16 in a game that Tattnall controlled after t quarter.

hats what I think I can do for this team, Ward said. After that first possession, I felt I had to do somethiey listened, and we hit them in the mouth the rest of the game.

ard was a big part of the o!ense, totaling 253 yards on 18 rushes. Tattnall (5-0, 1-0) garnered 400 yards oense and put together a complete performance in its first sub-region game.

er the lackluster start that included a safety gave Wilkinson County a 2-0 lead, Ward ran up the middle fo-yard score to give the Trojans a lead that never disappeared.

e Tattnall defense then went to work, holding the Warrior scoreless the rest of the half. Wilkinson County aled 136 rushing yards, mostly on the legs of quarterback Kentavious Waller. Waller was also held to 62ssing yards, which came on just seven completions in 18 attempts.

ridays) game was a great measuring stick for us, Tattnall head coach Clint Morgan said. (Wilkinson Cos a very, very good football team, and they came out and hit us hard and hit us early. We never backed d continued to fight, and I cant say enough about the guys down in the trenches and how hard they workey stayed at it the whole time.

arterback Ian Herndon capitalized on a 42-yard run by Ahmad Barron early in the second that put the teahin scoring distance. A 5-yard scoring run by Herndon sent the Trojans into halftime with a 14-2 win andped ensure Tattnalls fifth double-digit win in five games.

e third quarter was another scoreless one for Wilkinson County (1-4, 0-1), with the only score coming froother run by Herndon, as he dashed 15 yards while escaping a handful of would-be tacklers.

e Warriors got close in the fourth after recovering a late third-quarter fumble by the Trojans. Quantaviousnes ran in to score from 4 yards out, and Waller completed a two point conversion to cut the Trojans lea-10.

t Ward was at it again, running down the field 85 yards to put the final nail on the co"n. Still, Wilkinsonunty had the final say in a late 8-yard touchdown pass from Waller to Keldrick Anderson in the final threeconds of play.

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The former UAH women's basketball coach, who resigned after five seasons

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Heintz, along with six other members of Asbury United Methodist Church in Madison,

is traveling to Romania to take part in a mission trip from July 25 to Aug. 3, teaching

basketball to an impoverished region hungry to learn the sport.

Groups from the church have been teaching Vacation Bible School camps for several

years in the area, but this summer marks the first basketball-focused camps.

"When the group got back last year," Heintz said, "a couple of my friends were in that

group, and they said, 'Basketball is just a passion for these kids. Really would be neat ifyou would come over and do basketball camps,' and I said, 'It's a no-brainer.' "

One of the members was John Shaw. Shaw has visited Dorohoi, the city in northern

Romania that's home to the camps, several times through Asbury UMC.

He knew the impact Heintz could have on the community and was one of the

proponents of adding a basketball camp to the church's missionary lineup. After regular

Bible lessons, the underprivileged children clamor to play basketball, barely

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closer to 120, so the basketball

camp has similar expectations.

Three different age groups, including one specifically for oprhans in a local home, will

have separate camps throughout the week, with Heintz providing direction to the

children. Some local coaches will also work with him to improve their skills, something

that Heintz hopes to build upon in future trips.

He'll be teaching the kids through an interpreter, plus help from an eighth-grade church

member making the trip who can help demonstrate the X's and O's. Heintz

went through a similar thing seven years ago, with a group of players he coached at

Covenant College.

"We were there for two weeks, and that was during the heyday of Yao Ming, and if you

didn't know how to say basketball in Chinese, all you had to do was say Yao Ming and

make a motion like you're shooting the basket," Heintz said. "They love it but weren't

very skilled. From what I'm told, it's very much the same way (in Romania), but

probably worse. They love the game but don't have a lot of fundamental skills."

Heintz has the pedigree and skills to teach what the kids are desperate to learn. During

his time at UAH, he turned around a dismal program into three consecutive NCAA

Division II tournament berths, including a 2013 Gulf Coast League title.

There will be baskets scored and free-throw forms corrected while in Dorohoi, along

with daily teachings from the Bible. But ultimately, for Heintz and the group, the real

payoff will be bringing happiness to children who usually don't have much of it -- along

with boxes of T-shirts and basketballs.

"To be able to use (basketball) as a vehicle to maybe bring a smile to somebody's face, to

bring a bit of light into their world," Heintz said. "From what I've been told the

orphanages over there have just been like many places around the world, deplorable.

Kids without a lot of hope.

"I really hope to give them some enjoyment and a time of hope. That's always fun. We

get to use a piece of rubber filled with air to go to another part of the world."

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