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PREPFOOTBALL

Local teams use the summer to build a foundation for fall. A look at this seasonal rite of passage.

Welcome to Upstate Game DayWow, it sure is hard to believe that summer

is here. Before you know it football season will be upon us, but before then, we hope you will enjoy this edition of Upstate Game Day.

Inside, we highlight many of the accomplishments of our local athletes, several who won state championships.

Lauren Duggar of Byrnes capped off her career not only as the S.C. 4A Softball Player but

also as a state champion. Seventh-grader Trent Phillips just began what appears to be will be a

very successful and long career in leading Boiling Springs to its first state golf title.

The story of Wayne Tolleson and his sons Steve and Clint is sure to motivate and inspire. Wayne played football for Western Carolina in the 1970’s before embarking on a long and successful Major League baseball career. His sons grew up in Yankee Stadium alongside some of the legends of the game. Steve now plays for the Toronto Blue Jays. Clint recently ended a successful golf career at the University of South Carolina.

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SUMMER spotlight

Summer is here, and that means swimming, golf, tennis, and the great American pastime, baseball are in full swing.

The Spartanburg Summer Swim League was to get under way on June 10 and conclude its season with the championship meet on July 12 at the Middle Tyger YMCA.

Meets are held each Tuesday at community pools around Spartanburg County.

Teams include Boiling Springs, Carolina Country Club, Converse College Marlins, Country Club of Spartanburg, Fernwood, Hillbrook, Lantern Ridge, Spartanburg Athletic Club, and the Westside Club.

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FOR 3A STATECHAMPIONSHIPUnion County swept Hartsville to win the Class 3A state softball championship. The Yellow Jackets went on the road and defeated Hartsville 8-5 to complete the two-game sweep and deliver the first softball championship in school history for the Yellow Jackets.

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Former Clemson and Dorman standout offensive lineman Brandon Thomas was selected with the final pick of the third round - No. 100 overall - by the San Francisco 49ers in this past week’s NFL Draft.

Thomas, who suffered a knee injury during a workout with the New Orleans Saints and subsequently required surgery, was projected as a first- or second-round selection prior to the injury.

Defensive end Corey Miller (Byrnes/Tennessee), who was listed at No. 48 among draft-eligible players at his position by at least two scouting websites, was undrafted.

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Six Dorman atheltes signed letters of intent on May 19. Front row, from left: Jacob Rupp, The United States Coast Guard Academy, NaJarius (JJ) Green, Southern Wesleyan University. Back row: Bre Murphy, Newberry College, Dejah Surratt, Converse College, Julianne Cooper, Presbyterian College, and Zoie Reviere, Wofford College.

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The 2014 Spartanburg County Amateur Golf Championships get under way with the Junior Girls and Boys teeing off on June 30 and July 1 at The Creek Golf Club.

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SCA’s boys finished as runners-up as Trinity Byrnes took a 51-38.5 victory. It was the highest finish in school history for the Warriors.


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While conduct-ing a routine bed check at his team’s

Greenville hotel, Boiling Springs golf coach Rick Tate found there was no need to come up with a pep talk for his players.

Junior Trevor Phillips was already taking care of it.

“He was talking to them about what they had to do,” Tate said.

The Bulldogs responded where they faltered a year ago and went on to win the school’s first Class 4A state golf champi-onship at the Furman University Golf Course.

And a 7th grader led them.Trent Phillips, the younger

brother of Trevor, became the youngest player to win the indi-vidual state title.

The younger Phillips was one of three middle schoolers - along with Graham Corbin and Cole Hair - on the Bulldogs’ roster being counted on to compete for the Class 4A state championship that had eluded a more experi-enced team a year ago.

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expected to do,” Tate said.Graham Corbin did exactly

that, shooting an 80-82 over the first 36 holes as the Bulldogs built an insurmountable 17-stroke lead over second-place Easley.

The top three performed perhaps even better than antic-ipated -- Har-rison Corbin, older brother of Graham, and the Phillips brothers, were among the top six and each earned all-state honors.

The Bulldogs shot a combined 298 over the first 18 holes and followed that up with a 297 in the second round.

“If you’d told me we would’ve followed that 298 with something better, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Tate said. “I was hoping may-be for a 305.”

Trent Phillips followed his opening-round 70 with a 3-under 69 before sliding with a 76 in the

final round. He chipped in on No. 18 for birdie to secure med-alist honors over two-time runner-up Jonathan Hardee, a Riv-erside senior

and Alabama signee.“It’s pretty cool since no one

my age has won (a state champi-

onship) before,” Trent said. “It’s awesome.”

Trevor Phillips, who won a state title at Easley before mov-ing to Boiling Springs, put to-gether rounds of 72-73-77-222, while Harrison Corbin finished with a 76-73-77-226.

“Last year really hurt a lot,” Trevor Phillips said. “We came

out determined. We just didn’t want to be denied this time.”

Tate said the Bulldogs showed that determination long before arriving at the Furman course.

“They knew they left one over there last year,” he said. “They weren’t going to let that happen again.” n

Boiling Springs coach Rick Tate gives medals to brothers Trent (left) and Trevor Phillips.

“It’s pretty cool since no one my age has won (a state championship) before. It’s awesome.”

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Tommy Biershenk congratulates Trent Phillips following the final round.



A sport-utility vehicle headed East on I-20 toward Spring Val-ley High School was

adorned with the words, “Road to State” in white let-ters on the rear window.

But a roadtrip hardly describes the odyssey Byrnes’ series with Bluffton for the Class 4A state

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S.C. State Player of the Year Lauren Duggar holds the state championship trophy after Byrnes defeated Bluff-ton 1-0 in a deciding game played in two cities over a two-day period after being postponed during a storm.


softball title became.After a Game 1 home victory,

Byrnes headed to Bluffton and lost, but played the final three innings of the game under protest after a player was ejected for running to an occupied first base on a wild-pitch third strike.

The S.C. High School League upheld Byrnes’ protest and ordered the final three innings of Game 2 be replayed at the site of Game 3 -- Spring Valley High School in Columbia.

Bluffton held on to win Game 2 anyway, 4-3.

Then after four innings of Game 3, the skies opened, bring-ing torrential rains, heavy winds and a hailstorm down on Spring Valley.

Byrnes led 1-0 after Lauren Duggar scored on pitcher Bailey Pearson’s sacrifice fly in the first inning.

The rain delay turned into a postponement. Game 3 would conclude a day later in another town -- Aiken at South Aiken High School.

“We were ready to win it,” said Duggar, the state and Region II-4A Player of the Year. “It didn’t matter how many places we had to go, we had one goal.”

Duggar said the team did the math -- more than 20 hours were spent on the team bus driving among the towns and cities of Duncan, Bluffton, Columbia and Aiken.

“It was exhausting, traveling around everywhere to win,” said Pearson, who will play next year

at Spartanburg Methodist. “But it was worth it. ... We thought we would have to play two games to win, but we didn’t think it would be all that.”

The Furman-bound Dug-gar and Pearson were the only two seniors on the Rebels’ ros-ter. Both were team captains.

Duggar said their leader-ship skills were tested during the odd odyssey to a state championship.

“It showed in that little chaos of events that we stepped up and kept everybody togeth-er,” she said.

“(At Spring Valley), we said, ‘win or lose, this is our last day together, so we’re going to give it all we have.’ So, when the game was postponed, we looked at it as one more day we got to spend together as a team -- and one more day for me and Bailey to be there with the team. We tried to look at the positives.”

On the diamond, Pearson’s sacrifice fly scored Duggar in the first for the only run of the

deciding game. Then, Pearson and Byrnes’ youthful defense made that lone run stand up for six innings, more than 18 hours, and 150 miles and against a

good-hitting Bluffton team.“We knew it would be a close

game, regardless,” Pearson said. “I didn’t think we’d score just one run -- but I’m glad we did.” n

Duggar scores what proves to be the game- and championship-winning run in Game 3 of the series against Bluffton, a 1-0 Byrnes victory.

Senior Bailey Pearson (18) notched both of Byrnes’ finals wins against Bluffton.



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From Cobb to Puig; from Mickey to Chipper, from Feller to Kershaw, baseball has been the connective tissue that has held together generations of fathers and sons.

But for the family Tolleson -- father Wayne and sons Steve and Clint, it has been far more than backyard catches and little league diamonds. It only started there.

Wayne Tolleson, a former two-sport star who went on to play for 10 seasons in the Major Leagues, and son Steve, a former South Carolina all-SEC performer now with his third Major League team, share big-league credentials. As a youngster, Clint assumed he too would pursue the family business -- uncle Mike and grandfather Jim also played professionally -- but a horrific childhood accident led the younger Tolleson to the golf course instead.

“You can engage in the game with two gloves and a ball and start to play toss,” Wayne said of baseball. “You don’t have to put pads on or have a basketball goal. (Baseball) is just so simply done.”

Of course, neither baseball nor golf is a simple game.

Like Father, Like SonsBASEBALL AND SPORTS HAVE BEEN FAR MORE THAN BACKYARD CATCHES AND LITTLE LEAGUE

DIAMONDS FOR FAMILY TOLLESON. IT ONLY STARTED THERE FOR WAYNE AND SONS

STEVE AND CLINT.


Only a select few of a million starry-eyed youngsters make it to the Major Leagues. Even fewer follow their father’s footsteps there.

But Steve Tolleson, a versatile infielder who can play the outfield in a pinch, did just that.

After a successful all-SEC career at South Carolina, Steve was drafted in 2005 by the Minnesota Twins. Five minor-

league seasons later, Tolleson finally got his Major League break with the Oakland A’s in 2010. He has since bounced back and forth from the minors to the big-league rosters of the Baltimore Orioles in 2012 and this year with the Toronto Blue Jays.

“I have a desire to play this game and a love for the game,” Steve said. “My wife, Baileigh, has been a rock for me. She’s the first one there for me if I get sent down and she’s the first one to hug me when I get called back up.”

That love for the game was born here -- and on the big league diamonds where his father toiled as an undersized shortstop for the Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees.

“The father-son games at Yankee Stadium were really special,” Steve said. “I remember taking it so seriously, putting on the eye-black and running around out there while everybody else is just sort of hanging out having a good time.”

And hanging around in the clubhouse with players who are now part of Yankees lore -- Don Mattingly, Dave

Like Father, Like Sons

Above, Wayne Tolleson with sons Clint, left, and Steve in recent years, and top, with Steve and Clint during the elder Tolleson’s playing days with the Yankees.

“Dad has always stressed putting God first. God never puts something in front of

us or puts in a position that we can handle. . . . Through all the ups and downs with dif-

ferent organizations, I can honestly say that I know now that God put me there for a reason.”

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Winfield, Willie Randolph.Some 20 years later, Wayne Tolleson,

who starred in football and baseball at Western Carolina before opting for a professional baseball career, would get a phone call from that serious kid with the eye-black and same dreams.

After five years in the minors, the Oakland A’s had finally called Steve up to the big leagues.

“I guess you could say that call I got from him was very humbling,” Wayne recalled. “Having been there myself and having made that call to my dad, I knew how special that was.”

Steve’s Major League debut in 2010 came one year after the old Yankee Stadium where those memories were made closed to make way for a modern ballpark in the Bronx.

“The one regret I have -- the one thing I missed was an opportunity to play in the old Yankee Stadium by one year,” Steve said. “The new ballpark is great, but just the mystique of the old stadium made it special. . . . I would’ve

been really cool to step on that same field where my dad played.”

As Steve worked his way toward the Major Leagues, Clint was becoming an all-star golfer at Dorman and went on to play at South Carolina. At the age of 11, he was run over by a golf cart and unable to walk for a year. After recovering from the accident, golf, not baseball became Clint’s pursuit.

“Dad has always been a guy who was supremely supportive in whatever we did,” Clint said. “He just wanted us to work hard at something we cared about. I’d felt like I let him down a little bit because of what baseball was to our family, but he always supported me in golf.”

After graduating from South Carolina, Clint spent about eight months playing on regional mini tours, and even scored a win on the Mountain Golf Tour. He also attempted the PGA Tour’s rugged Qualifying School.

“With me, it was either the PGA Tour or bust,” Clint said. “My short game was just never at the level it needed to be to

get me there.”Eighteen months ago, he married

wife Jean and now is a territorial manager for Dearybury Oil & Gas.

Like Steve, Clint said his father’s influence has helped him through his shot at professional golf, into the private business sector and beyond.

“Dad always been the guy who led from a faith perspective,” Clint said. “It started there and bled down to how you approach everything.”

Now, Steve is a father himself and the lessons from father to son exceed simply baseball.

Daughter Claire is two-and-a-half and Baileigh is pregnant with the couple’s second daughter, due in August.

“Dad has always stressed putting God first,” Steve said. “God never puts something in front of us or puts in a position that we can handle. . . . Through all the ups and downs with different organizations, I can honestly say that I know now that God put me there for a reason.” n

Wayne Tolleson, above, during his days in the 1980s with the New York Yankees, and Steve Tolleson, currently with the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Former collegiate volleyball coach Corey Helle, now director of club volleyball at Upward Stars, has seen the value of

summer sports camps increase over the years.

Certainly, the experience can vary from camper to camper and sport to sport, but Helle, who formerly coached volleyball at Wofford College, sees summer camps as a near necessity for those serious enough about their sports to seek college scholar-ships.

“As the kids get older, camp becomes a vital component of recruiting,” Helle said. “Those (serious) players need to get in front of college coaches. It may cost $300-$400 to go to the camp, but you may get a college scholarship out of it.

“That’s not the only way kids get scholarships, but it is an investment and sometimes that investment plays back huge dividends.”

Helle added that while at Wofford, the vast majority of his players had attended his camps, so he was more able to assess their talent level and whether they would be a good fit for his program.

Younger players, on the other hand, are able to make huge gains in fundamentals and the understanding of their chosen game.

Helle compared it to learning a foreign language.

“They get intense time of training and learning and being immersed in their partic-ular sport,” he said. “It’s a very time-inten-sive immersion. Think about learning a for-eign language and going to another country and being immersed in the language. Think

about how much quicker you pick it up.”

Younger campers also learn to social-ize outside of their usual groups and get to experience being away from home for few days.

Still, Helle said parents should be picky about where they are sending their children for camps.

They should also make sure their bud-ding athletes want to go to camp. Before making the financial investment, parents should make sure their children are invest-ed, he said.

“Camp is worth it if your daughter or son prepares to make it the best camp possi-ble,” said Helle. “It’s not worth it if they’re not really gung-ho about going to camp -- it’s probably not worth it financially.

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WOFFORD COLLEGE RON SWEET VOLLEYBALL CAMPSDate: July 5-8 (All Skills Camp)Age: 10-16Cost: overnight $280, extended day $260. Position camp: July 9-11, ages 10-18. Cost: overnight $265, extended day: $250. Advanced camp: July 12-15, ages 13-18. Cost: overnight: $300, extended day: $275.Team Camp 1: July 17-20, ages 14-18. Cost: overnight $290, extended day: $265. Team Camp 2: July 22-25, ages 14-18. Cost: overnight $290, extended day: $265Description: pass/set/hit drills, digging and blocking, practice games and moreMore info: 864-597-4152

Whatever your sport, summer is the perfect time to hone your skills. Area colleges, universities and high schools offer to chance to improve alongside

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WOFFORD COLLEGE ROD RAY TENNIS CAMPDates: Session 1: June 3-6: Day camp or half-day; Session 2: June 8-12: Overnight Camp or Day (FULL); Session 3: June 15-19: Overnight Camp or Day; Session 4: June 22-26; Over-night Camp or Day; Session 5: June 29-July 2: Day Camp or half-dayCost: $649 for overnight camp; $335 for day camp; $199 for half-day campDescription: specializes in experienced players as well as though who aren’t quite there yetMore info: Rod Ray at [email protected] , 864-597-4154 or 864-809-8827

WOFFORD COLLEGE RALPH LUNDY SOCCER ACADEMYDate: June 19-22Ages 9-13, boys and girls. June 26-29: ages 13-18, boys and girlsDescription: builds a solid technical foundation and adds advanced tacticsMore info: ralphlundy.com

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CONVERSE COLLEGE BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE VOLLEYBALL CAMPDate: July 28-29Ages: rising 5th-8th gradersCost: $155 for overnight campers, $115 for commuter campersDescription: focuses on the building blocks essential to the sportMore info: Regina Poppie at [email protected] or 864-577-2060

CONVERSE COLLEGE PREMIER RESIDEN-TIAL SOCCER CAMPDate: July 21-25Ages: 15 to 18-year-oldsCost: $450 (includes room, meals, training, T-shirtDescription: focuses on teaching the techniques and tactical tools essential for the college-level gameMore info: John Constable at 864-706-2777 or [email protected]

>> DORMAN HS <<VOLLEYBALL CAMPDates: July 21-24Times: 9am-NoonAges: Rising 6th-8th GradersCost: $50Location: DHS Arena/Auxiliary GymContact Info: Paula Kirkland, [email protected], (864)-342-8915

BLUE BELLES DANCE CAMPDates: July 22-25Times: 9am-NoonAges: 5-14

Cost: $55Location: Dawkins Middle School GymContact Info: Denise Latini, [email protected], (864)-582-4347 ext. 2136

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE’S SPARTY’S KIDS CAMPDates: June 16-20; June 23-27; June 30-July 3; July 7-11; July 14-18; July 21-25. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.Ages: K-5th gradeCost: $60Description: games, swimming and moreMore info: Shane Conti at 864-503-5174 or [email protected].

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FASTPITCH SOFTBALL CAMPDate: June 24-27, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Ages: for girls 8-18Cost: $300 resident, $190 commuterMore info: Chris Hawkins at 864-503-5171 or [email protected]

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE TENNIS CAMPDate: June 23-26; July 21-24; July 28-31. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Ages: 11-18 (coed)Cost: $200More info: Dr. Oliver Trittenwein at 864-503-5131, 864-384-0794 or [email protected]

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE WOMEN’S SOCCER SUMMER CAMPDate: June 19-22Ages: 10-18Cost: residential: $425, commuter: $275, two-day residential: $375More info: India Trotter at 954-817-1352 or [email protected]

>> CLEMSON <<CLEMSON UNIVERSITY BOYS LACROSSE CAMPDates: July 13-16Ages 9-18Cost: overnight: $495; commuter: $395Description: includes multiple focused-instructional sessions for all positions and skill levelsMore info: clemson.edu/summer/camps/#Athletic

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY GIRLS LACROSSE CAMPDates: July 13-26Ages: 9-18Cost: overnight: $495, commuter: $395Description: includes multiple focused-instructional sessions for all positions and skill levelsMore info: clemson.edu/summer/camps/#Athletic

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY BASEBALL CAMPOVERNIGHT CAMPSDates: Week 1: June 22-26; Week 2: July 6-10; Week 3: July 13-17Half-Day Camp: June 23-27Ages: 8-18Cost: overnight sessions: $595; half-day camp: $225More info: clemson.edu/summer/camps/#Athletic


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PUTTING YOUR WAYTO A BETTER SCORE

Statistically speaking, an average golfer who shoots 90 during a round of golf spends around 40 percent of their shots putting.

A tour player who averages 70 also averages 35-45% of their strokes putting. With this being said, short game is the least worked on aspect of the game for most amateur golfers.

We have all heard the saying, “Drive for show, putt

for dough”!!! This statement is true. The key to a solid putting stroke is quite simple.

Make a pendulum motion and go straight back and through. When I teach, I use a simple PVC training device to help with this. I work on head stability and holding your finish with your head down.

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Next time you putt, try to make a pendulum stroke that is straight back and straight through and hold your head still until the end of the stroke.

junior standout Reed Bentley (Byrnes) working on clean lines on his stroke and head stability. Once you play for your break of the putt, line up to that intended line and stroke to the target you have picked out.

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to make a pendulum stroke that is straight back and straight through and hold your head still until the end of the stroke. Do this and you WILL make more putts.

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GOT AN OFF-SEASON?Young athletes need chance to rest, recuperate between seasons

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Young athletes go hard these days. As a per-formance trainer and strength coach I am often

asked ‘what are some things that a young athlete can do to get better’.

Obviously this is a complicat-ed question and requires a more thorough response than what I can provide in this column. However, one of the most obvious answers to that question is the one that is least likely to be followed these days: have an off-season.

Wait! Before you stop reading, let me explain the importance of having an off-season particularly with a growing adolescence.

First, parents and coaches re-member the days when as a young athlete yourself there were four distinct seasons. No not winter, spring, summer and fall. No, the four seasons were football season, basketball season, baseball season and out of school season (sum-mer). There were few if any op-portunities to play baseball in the fall, football in the spring, and so on. We played one sport, and then moved on to the next one. This is a great development model, one that is largely ignored these days.

By switching between sports you rest muscles that need to rest. In addition, when you change it

up, you use muscles that are in need of de-velopment or weren’t used as much in your previous sport.

You see, football is a little different from basketball, and basketball obviously very different from baseball.

A young baseball player’s arm needs rest, and the demands on the legs from the basketball court make changing sports just what a young athletes needs to prevent overuse injuries that are skyrocketing out of control these days.

If you’ve been paying attention to major league baseball this year you will have noted that there are an alarming number of elbow injuries among pitchers, most requiring surgery.

Admittedly there can be a number of variables that account for this trend. Most definitely overuse of the pitcher’s arms while playing in their youth leagues which now extend from the spring straight through the summer and right into fall is one of them.

You might think more training needs to be done to strengthen a young athlete’s arm, core muscles

or legs. Obviously as a strength coach I am strongly in favor of strength training. Strength training is a vital part of devel-opment of a young athlete and when used properly and with proper supervision can lead to less injury. But you can’t out train the constant strain on a young athlete’s body

that never gets an off season.Yes parents, there is a lot of

parent peer pressure to put your child in year-round programs or to specialize at an early age. Please resist the temptation to put your child in those types of programs. Much more harm can be done, and the little advantage that is gained from constantly practic-ing a skill year round is offset by the injuries and lack of complete development that occurs from year round training.

That is where summer comes in as well. Take the time to allow your athlete to recover from their sport season. With proper rest (and nutrition, but that’s anoth-er article altogether) this allows healing of the body and growth and development to take place unfettered.

Summer is a great time to introduce a proper strength program as well that will help lay a foundation for more advanced strengthening programs once they reach high school and perhaps beyond. Yes that is work on the body but you are taking a break for the repetitive movements that a single sport can place on the body. Also a proper strength program will help a young athlete identify their weaknesses and give them a chance to correct any movement deficiencies that will lead to better performance and less injury in the future.

Obviously there are many more sports that just football, baseball and basketball but you get the idea. Change up your sports frequently or take a break from competition altogether. A young athlete can use an emotional as well as a physical break. Watch them come back even more ener-gized and excited to play ball next season. n

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Beat the HEATBy KAREN L. PUCKETTKids often use the phrase, “no sweat,” when a task

is not difficult for them. Maybe that’s because it can be a difficult task for

them to sweat to begin with.“Kids have a higher threshold for when they start

to sweat compared to adults,” explains Dr. Eric Cole, Spartanburg family physician. “So they may not realize when they’re too hot and continue playing until symp-toms become critical.”

For this reason, parents need to take the proper steps to prepare their children for the heat before they hit the field, and coaches need to be ready to take action when heat illness strikes their players.

“A lot of people don’t realize how much they need to drink before and during exercise and what they should drink,” says Dr. Cole. “The worst thing you can drink is soda. Caffeine acts as a diuretic and can cause you to lose fluid and become dehydrated. It’s terrible for kids because of the sugar and it’s a stimulant. They shouldn’t drink it period, much less when they’re working out.”

Water is the natural fluid replacement, Dr. Cole said, but he adds that sports drinks, such as Powerade and Gatorade, are good supplements because they replace sodium and electrolytes. While it may not be pleasing to all palates, pickle juice is another good

sodium replacement.The amount the child should drink before heading

out to the practice field varies, but a good rule of thumb, according to Dr. Cole is drink enough until it produces clear urine. Dark yellow or brown urine is a sign of dehydration. Also, the child needs to weigh before practice and after practice. The weight loss indicates how much water he needs to drink to keep his body hydrated.

Another way to beat the heat on the playing field is make sure players avoid heat-related illness is getting them acclimated to the heat. Many such illnesses occur within the first few days of practice because children are not used to the hot environment after being indoors and used to cooler conditions. A safe way to acclimate them to the heat is to build up outdoor time gradually.

In addition, they should wear lightweight, loose-fit-ting, light-colored fabrics. White and light colors reflect heat; dark and black colors absorb heat.

Dr. Cole emphasizes that coaches and trainers need to monitor the weather as well as their players during practice.

“They need to know the risk levels, the heat index charts,” Dr. Cole says. “As the heat and humidity rises, it’s harder for them to dissipate heat. Sweat needs to be able to evaporate from the skin to keep it cool, but humidity keeps the sweat on the body.”

One preventive measure on the field include taking frequent water and rest breaks in the shade.

And they need to realize their young players produce more heat than they do because of a greater surface area-to-body ratio. In other words, kids get hotter faster than adults. However, kids may not realize their own increasing body temperature until other symptoms present themselves.

That’s when conditions, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke, occur. Heat exhaustion generally develops when a person is working or exercising in hot weather and does not drink enough liquids to replace those lost liquids. A more dangerous illness, heat stroke occurs when the body fails to regulate its own temperature and body temperature continues to rise, often up to 104 or 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

“That’s a medical emergency,” Dr. Cole says of heat stroke. “Call 911 and rapidly cool the person, preferably in a tub of cold water or an ice pack on the neck, groin and arm pits.”

Heat exhaustion and heat cramps, which occur in the muscles, can usually be treated on the sidelines with wet towels, ice packs, fans, shade and liquid replacement, but if the symptoms do not subside in about 30 minutes, then medical treatment may be considered, Dr. Cole says. GD

As summer cranks into high gear, the barrage of summer camp opportunities flood

the mailboxes and inboxes of almost every parent.

Parents are faced with making decisions and many of them gear their response around determining which camp will best prepare their student for college opportunities. It is an amazing thing to hear of the challenges that many parents readily accept in an effort to position their son or daughter for college athletic scholarship opportunities.

While there is no doubt that these camps can be beneficial, they contribute to what we see in our culture as the disappearing of “summer break” for student-athletes.

The irony is that most high school coaches have the same concerns, but if they were to give their athletes the summer off (or at least part of it), they would fall behind other programs who use the summer to “get ahead”. This perpetual problem is one that will continue to control the schedules of families if it goes unchecked and there seems to be no help in sight.

The apostle Paul was well aware of the importance of physical training as he lived in culture where the ancient version of the Olympic games were a large part of the society. He wrote a letter to a young man, Timothy, who he was mentoring and said, “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.” 1 Timothy 4:8 (NLT).

Here is where the challenge lies.

Students are not born with a balanced understanding of what is good for them long term. They are to be trained in what is important, and unfortunately it seems that the message that is being sent to them is that sports is paramount in life.

Most people who know me know that sports has always been a big part of my life and that I love seeing my boys strive to be the best that they can be. The older I get though I see that there are so many more life lessons that must be passed on that are easily confused if we only focus on being successful in sports.

I recently attended the State Championship Softball game

held at South Aiken High School in a game between Byrnes High School and Bluffton High School. At a crucial point in the game, Byrnes Centerfielder Lauren Duggar came up to bat and I heard her mother yell out to her, “OK Lauren, have fun out there….just have fun!”

I thought to myself, wow…what an awesome perspective. We must teach out students the joy of the journey of life and to have fun…otherwise they might actually find themselves dreading the very activity that once brought them the greatest joy.

As I close this article, I feel great conviction in my own

heart because I have struggled with each aspect of the journey that I have addressed. I must learn balance…and I pray that we all will strive to focus on those things that matter most….and have fun out there!

Rev. Seth Buckley is Minister to Students at First Baptist

Spartanburg.

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The Hub City Heat 11U Major teams captured titles in the State Directors Challenge at Tyger River Park on May 18, above, and Spring Fling Championships at Heritage Park in Greenville,

below, on April 28.

The Dorman Cavaliers brought home the title at the University of Georgia’s 7-on-7 tourney on June 6.

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