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Rana Reider
Rana Reider (born July 8, 1970) is an American track and field coach, who specializes in coaching the sprinting events, long jump, and triple jump. Throughout his career, he has coached Christian Taylor, Andre De Grasse, Bryan Clay, Marcell Jacobs and Tianna Bartoletta, who collectively have won Olympic gold medals in six different events (100m, 200m, 4x100m, long jump, triple jump, and decathlon). Reider currently is a coach for Tumbleweed Track Club in Jacksonville, Florida. Early life Reider grew up in Corona, California. He attended Norco High School where he was a soccer player as well as a triple jumper. Reider attended his first coaching clinic while still in high school, in his senior year. After high school he attended Riverside City College for four years where he continued to be a triple jumper and also worked as an assistant to coach Ted Banks. Reider then attended California Baptist University where he also coached. He graduated in 1997 with a degree in kinesiolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norco High School
Norco High School is a comprehensive public high school serving over 2,000 students from grades 9-12 in Norco, California, United States. It is part of the Corona-Norco Unified School District. The current principal is Melissa Bako. Demographics As of the 2020–21 school year, the enrollment by race/ethnicity is: * 52% Hispanic * 39% White * 4.2% Asian * 2.4% Black * 1.9% Two or more races * 0.3% Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander * 0.2% American Indian / Alaska native Clubs and activities Norco High School has multiple clubs and student organizations, including an Mock Trial, AFJROTC, Alpha Omega Bible Club, American Cancer Society, Art Club, ASB, Cougar Buddies, Cougar Chronicle, Dance, the Blue Diamond Brigade marching band, Friday Night Live, FBLA(Future Business Leaders of America), History Club, Humanitarian Club, Link Crew, Key Club, Unity, Yearbook, Competitive Show Choir / Choral Choir, Book Club, and FFA (Future Farmers of America). The April 19, 2007 performance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinesiology
Kinesiology () is the scientific study of human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, anatomical, Biomechanics, biomechanical, Pathology, pathological, neuropsychological principles and mechanisms of movement. Applications of kinesiology to human health include biomechanics and orthopedics; strength and Classical conditioning, conditioning; sport psychology; motor control; skill acquisition and motor learning; methods of Rehabilitation psychology, rehabilitation, such as Physical therapy, physical and occupational therapy; and sport and exercise physiology. Studies of human and animal motion include measures from motion tracking systems, electrophysiology of muscle and brain activity, various methods for monitoring physiological function, and other behavioral and cognitive research techniques. Basics Kinesiology studies the science of human movement, performance, and function by applying the fundamental sciences of cell biology, molecular biology, chemistry, bioch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shara Proctor
Shara Proctor (born 16 September 1988) is a former British long jumper born in Anguilla. She is the national record holder of both Anguilla and Great Britain. On 28 August 2015 at the World Championships in Beijing she became the first British, female, long-jumper to jump over 7 metres (7.07), setting a new British record and earning a world championship silver medal in the process. She also won the 2013 IAAF Diamond League in the event. Her younger sister is the Anguillan sprinter Shinelle Proctor. Career Representing Anguilla She competed at the Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, 2007 World Championships for Anguilla, but without reaching the final round. In November 2010, she announced that she would be competing for Great Britain at events held by the IAAF, as Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory and cannot send delegations to the Olympic Games for not having your Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyn Rooney
Martyn Joseph Rooney (born 3 April 1987) is an English Sprint (running), sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event. He reached the 400 m final at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won bronze in the 4 × 400 metres relay. A mainstay on the anchor leg of the Great Britain and England 4 × 400 metre relay teams, at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics he won a silver medal with the Great Britain relay team, and bronze in the 2015 World Championships in Athletics, 2015 and 2017 World Championships. Individually, Rooney was twice the European champion at 400 metres in 2014 European Athletics Championships, 2014. and 2016 European Athletics Championships, 2016. A five time national champion, his personal best time of 44.45 seconds ranks sixth all-time in Great Britain behind national record-holder Matthew Hudson-Smith, Charlie Dobson, Roger Black, Mark Richardson (sprinter), Mark Richardson and Iwan Thomas. Career Born and raised in Thornton Heath, London, the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Gemili
Adam Ahmed Gemili (born 6 October 1993) is a British sprinter. He is the 2014 European champion at 200 metres, three-time European champion in the 4 × 100 metres relay, and part of the Great Britain team that won gold at the 2017 World Championships in the same event. He has finished fourth in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and fourth and fifth in separate editions of the World Championships in the same event. He was the first British athlete and the first sprinter of either North African or Middle Eastern descent to run both the 100 m in less than 10 seconds and the 200 m in less than 20 seconds. He was also the first man of North African, Arab or Iranian heritage to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres.Lewis, Aimee. (7 June 2015Adam Gemili goes sub 10 seconds in 100m for first time – BBC Sport Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 19 August 2016. A silver medalist in the 100 metres and 4 × 100 m relay in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Gemili is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting and the combined events. She holds the European record in the 200 metres with a time of 21.63 seconds, making her the sixth-fastest woman of all time at this distance. She also holds the Dutch records in the 100 metres and long jump, and shares the Dutch records in the 60 metres indoor and 4 × 100 metres relay. Schippers was the 200 m world champion at both the 2015 and the 2017 World Athletics Championships, the silver medalist in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 200 m champion in the 2016 Diamond League. Additionally, she won two silver and two bronze medals at world championships—heptathlon bronze in 2013; 100 m silver in 2015; indoor 60 m silver in 2016, and 100 m bronze in 2017—and five ( outdoor and indoor) European titles. She won twenty-two Dutch titles ( outdoor and indoor). She was European Athlete of the Year in 2014 and 2015. In 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Sports Centre Papendal
Olympic Training Centre Papendal () is the national training centre of the Netherlands, located in the Veluwe woods from Arnhem. Papendal is the home base of NOC*NSF and football club SBV Vitesse SBV Vitesse Arnhem (''Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse Arnhem, Eng: Professional Football Foundation Vitesse Arnhem''), widely known as Vitesse () or internationally known as Vitesse Arnhem, is a Dutch professional association football, footba .... The soccer fields are also being used as training ground by Vitesse's first team squad. Around 550 top athletes use the facilities of Papendal, 400 on a daily basis. With over 20 building projects in 10 years time, the Olympic Training Centre is completely modernized. History Olympic Training Centre Papendal In 1959 the Dutch Sports Federation was founded. One of the topics that were addressed during a meeting of the Dutch Sports Federation (NSF) was how Dutch sports could become bigger. The idea for a national High Performance Centre f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comfort Zone
comfort zone is a familiar psychological state where people are at ease and (perceive they are) in control of their environment, experiencing low levels of anxiety and stress. Judith Bardwick defines the term as "a behavioral state where a person operates in an anxiety-neutral position." Brené Brown describes it as "Where our uncertainty, scarcity and vulnerability are minimized—where we believe we'll have access to enough love, food, talent, time, admiration. Where we feel we have some control." Performance management Alasdair White refers to the "optimal performance zone", in which performance can be enhanced by some amount of stress. Beyond the optimum performance zone, lies the "danger zone" in which performance declines rapidly under the influence of greater anxiety. However, stress in general can have an adverse effect on decision making: fewer alternatives are tried outStaal, Mark A"Stress, cognition, and human performance: A literature review and conceptual fram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loughborough
Loughborough ( ) is a market town in the Charnwood (borough), Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England; it is the administrative centre of Charnwood Borough Council. At the United Kingdom 2021 census, the town's built-up area had a population of 64,884. It is the second largest settlement in the county after Leicester. Loughborough is close to the Nottinghamshire border and is also located near Leicester and Derby. Loughborough is also home to the world's largest bell foundry, John Taylor Bellfounders, which produced Great Paul at St Paul's Cathedral; it has also made bells for the Loughborough Carillon, Carillon War Memorial, a landmark in Queens Park. History Medieval The earliest reference to Loughborough occurs in the Domesday Book of 1086, which calls it ''Lucteburne''. It appears as ''Lucteburga'' in a charter from the reign of Henry II of England, Henry II, and as ''Luchteburc'' in the Pipe Rolls of 1186. The name is of Old English origin and means "Luhhede's ''b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the group stage in Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, women's football, began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, followed by the opening ceremony on 27 July. There were 10,518 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) who participated in the 2012 Olympics. Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and the then-Mayor of London, London mayor Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore on 6 July 2005, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid, and Paris. London became the first city to host the modern Olympics three times, having previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 Summer Olympics, 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 World Championships In Athletics
The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011. The United States topped the medal standings in the competition with 28 (12 gold, 9 silver, and 7 bronze). During the competition, 41 national records, 4 area records, 3 championship records, and 1 world record was set. The championships were heavily affected by post-championship doping cases, particularly from the Russian team, who in subsequent years were stripped of eleven medals, seven of them gold. Bidding process On 4 April 2006, the IAAF (now World Athletics) announced that nine countries (United States, South Korea, Australia, Sweden, Spain, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Croatia and Morocco) had submitted expressions of interest for hosting the 2011 World Championships. Candidates When the seeking deadline passed on 1 December 2006, four candidate cities (Brisbane, Daeg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Track & Field
USA Track & Field (USATF) is a United States national governing body for the sports of track and field, cross country running, road running, and racewalking (known as the sport of athletics outside the US). The USATF was known between 1979 and 1992 as ''The Athletics Congress'' (TAC) after its spin-off from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), which governed the sport in the US through most of the 20th century until the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 dissolved its responsibility. Based in Indianapolis, USATF is a non-profit organization with a membership of more than 130,000. The organization has three key leadership positions: CEO Max Siegel, Board of Directors Chair Steve Miller, and elected president Vin Lananna. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can be USATF members (annual individual membership fee: $35 for 18-year-old members and younger, $65 for the rest), but permanent residents can only participate in masters events in the country, and they cannot win USATF medals, prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
