Go Girl: Raising Healthy, Confident and Successful Girls Through Sports - Hardcover

Storm, Hannah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570719721 ISBN 13: 9781570719721

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Sports Help Girls Thrive in All Aspects of Life...

Every parent wants to help their daughter build the skills she needs to be happy and successful. How do you make it happen? Get her into sports! In Go Girl!, NBC sportscaster Hannah Storm helps you take an active role in encouraging and supporting your daughter's athletic interests, giving her the edge she needs to excel in life.

The benefits of sports for girls are numerous. Girls who play sports have higher levels of confidence and self-esteem and lower levels of depression. High-school girls who play sports are more likely to get better grades in school and to graduate. New research shows that as little as four hours of exercise per week may reduce a girl's risk of getting breast cancer as an adult by up to 60 percent.

Filled with advice and techniques from the nation's top experts, Go Girl! tells parents:
--How to promote fitness and activity in babies and toddlers
--When to start your daughter in organized sports, and how to choose the right sport
--How to keep pre-teens and teenagers interested
--What to do if your daughter shows elite potential
--How to evaluate your daughter's coach
--What it means to be a good sports parent
--What the sports health concerns of a young female athlete may be and how to handle them

Go Girl! is the ultimate guide to making sure that young girls take to life with confidence, passion and a love of the game.

About this title

Review

"ESPN newscaster and mother of three Storm here makes a strong case for incorporating sports into young women's lives, revising her 2002 title to coincide with the 2011 ESPN women's initiative. The research is clear on many fronts: female athletes have higher GPAs, score better on the SATs, and have lower school drop-out rates and higher college-admission rates. Dividing "fitness" into three categories (health, academic, and emotional/psychological), Storm addresses the benefits of athletics within each. Because sports are only relevant to school-aged children and up, Storm should have foregone her early chapters on babies and toddlers and jumped right into the "formative years" instead. That said, her book will be helpful for parents who need someone to coach them along. Considering ESPN's initiative for women's programming, this title should get heavy play." - Library Journal

About the Author

Hannah Storm is the nation's top female sportscaster. She moderates NBC's NBA Showtime and co-hosts the Olympics. She has hosted coverage of four Olympic Games, Notre Dame football, the World Series, Wimbledon, the WNBA championships, the NBA playoffs, and the NBA Finals. She is a two-time Emmy nominee, and the winner of the Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Achievement. She has reported on the NBA, women's golf, college football, the NFL, Major League Baseball, and NASCAR, among other sports. She is married to fellow NBC sportscaster Dan Hicks and they live in Connecticut with their three daughters. Go Girl! is her first book.

Mark Jenkins is the coauthor of several highly regarded books on sports health, including the definitive book in its field, The Sports Medicine Bible. As a consultant at the Sports Medicine Division at Boston Children's Hospital, Mark's expertise on the sports-health concerns of young athletes is well established. Mark also has plenty of personal experience in the area of youth sports-he has coached and refereed girls soccer and plays stepdad to his fiancée's two sports-mad kids, who play organized hockey, basketball, golf, baseball, and football. Living on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Mark still finds time to work out, bike, and play competitive soccer and tennis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570719721
• ISBN 13: 9781570719721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256